Condi, Lowry say Huckabee uninformed on foreign affairs, shallow on most everything
by RickG · 12/21/2007 12:12 pmCondi Rice has a message concerning Mike Huckabee’s comments on foreign policy: He doesnt’ know what he’s talking about. She was more diplomatic than that, and didn’t refer to Huckabee (who, as we all know, has a wealth of foreign policy experience as governor of Arkansas) by name, but the message was clear.
“The idea that somehow this is a go-it-alone policy is just simply ludicrous,” she said at a State Department news conference. “One would only have to be not observing the facts, let me say that, to say that this is now a go-it-alone foreign policy.”
Huckabee, apparently seeking to become the Dennis Kucinich (or Ron Paul) of the GOP on foreign policy, would be wise to drop it at this point. Him taking on Rice would be like Beavis challenging Einstein.
Rice listed just some of the US international alliances, then summarized:
”I can go on and on and on and on,” Rice concluded. “And so, I would just say to people, look at the facts. “
Good advice indeed. But the left-leaning Arkansan apparently has little interest in really being informed on foreign policy. As noted by National Review editor Rich Lowry last week: “Huckabee not only has zero national-security credentials, he basically has no foreign-policy advisers either, as a New York Times Magazine piece this Sunday makes clear. Lowry, who argues that Huckabee is “under-vetted” and ” manifestly unprepared to be president of the United States,” noted how much like a Democrat Huckabee is sounding:
In a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in September, Huckabee struck notes seemingly borrowed from Barack Obama, hitting the Bush administration for its “bunker mentality” and strongly supporting direct talks with Iran. A foreign-policy debate with a Democratic nominee would be a competition over who can promise to be nicer to foreign countries.
Lowry, who compares Huckabee in some respects to Howard Dean, discusses some of this Man from Hope’s other positions and convincingly argues they will backfire on the GOP if he is given the nomination.
Wherever you scratch Huckabee on policy, he seems an inch deep. Do Republicans really want to enter what is already a tough political year with a candidate apparently allergic to preparation, and who has shown no predilection for organizing or fundraising, when he can do cable TV appearances instead?
Lowry concludes that Huckabee’s shallowness - not to mention his policy problems - means that the GOP would commit “suicide” in the presidential race by nominating him, and leaves us with this unpleasant thought:
Democrats have to be looking at Huckabee the way Republicans once regarded Dean — as a shiny Christmas present that is too good to be true.
(Note: We earlier cited to a Drudge report that the DNC had decided to refrain from criticizing Huckabee, as they saw him an “easy kill” in the presidential election.)
ADDENDUM:
A member of the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board weighs in with an analysis of Huckabee as far from conservative, and suggests he may do for the GOP what Michael Dukakis did for the Democrats. She also warns he may be an “ethical time bomb.” which could explode in Republicans’ faces. Says the author:
GOP voters may not have examined Mr. Huckabee’s record, but the left has–and they love what they see.
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He now has Ed Rollins who worked for Ronald Reagan.
After working for Reagan he became part of the D.C.-New York establishment going on to work with the ultra conservative Christine Todd Whitman.
Rollins and Whitman, both are well versed in foreign policies.
Nat:
You’re making a funny, right?
It figures! I look at it this way, if Mr. Huckabee is closing down our borders and enforces immigration laws, and if he is going to be a PRO AMERICA president, then I will most likely vote for him. We need some people to get back our sovereignity and not worry about how the rest of the world views us. He also needs to untie the hands of our military and win this war.
But this is only my opinion, I’m certain lots of you will differ.
The Huckabee Hustle
The Huckabee Shuffle:
You put your first position in, you pull your first position out, you put your second position in and you flip-flop all about.
You summed Mike Huckabee & his policy up succinctly when you said “about 1″ deep”. And if that isn’t deep enough for you? He’ll tell you that it is really 12″ deep.
#3 Kraut
I’m curious, what could possibly give you the idea that Huckabee wants to close down the borders and enforce immigration laws? Certainly nothing that he did in Arkansas as a governor.
As far as the PRO AMERICA thing goes, I guess that’s a bit undefined, but the man has no foreign policy, and when he speaks in that area he sounds mostly like Jimmy Carter. He wants to hold hands with the rest of the world and ask them to play nice.
I think you need to look some more.
Yeah, every time we get a preacher in the presidential pulpit, we see him lovin’ his neighbor, turnin’ the other cheek, all that peacenik stuff that Jesus talked about but no one really believes in or does — it’s more fun killing them all. Let God sort ‘em out. Christians only have to talk the talk, they don’t have to walk the walk. Right? Isn’t that why we hate Huckabee, because he may actually walk the walk?
Hey, Ghost Rider,
I think you get comment of the week for that one.
Huckabee is trying to redefine conservative. He’s not alone. His record doesn’t stand up to scrutiny, no matter his weak explanations. You know, I voted yes before I voted no.
‘cept he didn’t. But, you know, spin is spin. Believe what you must.
#6 fat albert,
I said “IF” he does those things.
Then there is always Duncan Hunter, let’s start giving him a thorough look! I certainly do not trust any of the others.
Obviously we go after the front runner especially,if there are some obvious flaws. I wonder though, if he’s in the bulls-eye because Hillary wants to run against him?