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Thursday, August 9, 2012

RINO?

August 9th, 2012

Following up on a profile  in The Nation of Mike Huckabee and his radio program, Noah Kristula-Green takes a look at the blowback the former governor has received for, well, his general decency and politeness:
"For some, the best indicator of your conservative values is how loudly you shout and how much you scream. Huckabee's situation is actually very similar to a problem Jon Huntsman faced when he ran for president. Substantively, Huntsman was a very conservative governor but because he did stoop to name-calling and radical accusations, he never caught fire with the conservative base."
This sums things up pretty well. A demeanor that is anything less than overtly vicious is now deemed impure in some conservative circles.

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