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And no, not just Ron Paul-style “libertarians” (I’m willing to bet that most of the Ron Paul crowd voted for Obama because they were never really so much about limited government as being anti-war) but actual mainstream fiscal conservatives like those members of, say, The Club for Growth.

From a review of Huckabee’s new book Do the Right Thing: Inside the Movement That’s Bringing Common Sense Back to America:

In a chapter titled “Faux-Cons: Worse than Liberalism,” Huckabee identifies what he calls the “real threat” to the Republican Party: “libertarianism masked as conservatism.” He is not so much concerned with the libertarian candidate Ron Paul’s Republican supporters as he is with a strain of mainstream fiscal-conservative thought that demands ideological purity, seeing any tax increase as apostasy and leaving little room for government-driven solutions to people’s problems.

Seems to me that Huck needs to review the words of Reagan:

If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism… The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.

Now, I can’t say that I will agree with all the things that the present group who call themselves Libertarians in the sense of a party say… But again, I stand on my statement that I think that libertarianism and conservatism are travelling the same path.

Just as I said again and again during the GOP primaries: Huckabee is no friend to conservatism or freedom in general.  He is the sort of big-government populist that has been a yoke around the GOP’s neck for too long now.

The path people like Huckabee would have the GOP walk is one that will lead Republicans to be little more than “Democrats Lite.”  Or, essentially, the lesser of two evils for those of us in the liberty-minded community.