Grover on Rudy
by Patrick Ruffini :: December 4th, 2007 3:08 am ATR’s Grover Norquist today became the latest fiscal conservative leader to shower praise upon Rudy Giuliani:
“In looking at the records of all the Republican candidates, yours clearly stands out. You cut the income tax, business taxes, sales taxes, property related taxes and nuisance taxes. You are the most successful tax cutter in modern New York history and, on balance, the most successful tax cutter in the Republican field today.”
Say what you will about Giuliani’s conservative outreach, but fiscal conservatives have been unusually kind to the Hizzoner. First there was the Steve Forbes endorsement. Then the glowing Club for Growth report. And now this.
Giuliani and Huckabee are the ying and yang of the GOP field. One is strong on fiscal issues and weak on social ones. The other is… the opposite. Unlike discerning minute differences in the shades of gray between Clinton and Obama, a Giuliani-Huckabee final would give Republican voters a real choice about the future direction of the party. That is, if Huck can topple Mitt in Iowa…
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Did you notice that Grover is backing off a bit on the Huckabee record?
BTW, Patrick, Off topic and technical…but…is there a way to insure a blog is indexed for your wire? I’ve read the FAQs and tried to follow the links. I had an entry featured on your blog a few weeks ago and have been steadily writing Huckabee posts and have not seen any of them featured since.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
What seems to have been lost in all this is that Rudy sent a letter to Grover last night in which he pledged (in writing) to oppose all tax increases “for any purpose.” This exceeds the committment of the Taxpayer Protection Pledge. Hence Grover’s letter.
Fred Thompson and John McCain are the only remaining GOP Prez candidates not to rule out tax hikes in writing or otherwise.
Norquist is schizophrenic on Huckabee. Earlier, he said of Huckabee, “We like chubby governors and skinny budgets. Not the other way around.” and called him a “serial tax increaser”. Then when Huckabee signed ATR’s tax pledge, Norquist changed his tune on Huckabee. Norquist loses credibility if he is willing to forgive and forget past transgressions.
[…] He even frames the whole thing as: Giuliani and Huckabee are the ying and yang of the GOP field. One is strong on fiscal issues and weak on social ones. The other is… the opposite. Unlike discerning minute differences in the shades of gray between Clinton and Obama, a Giuliani-Huckabee final would give Republican voters a real choice about the future direction of the party. That is, if Huck can topple Mitt in Iowa… […]