Mike Huckabee - the Republican version of John Edwards? Or is it....
Yes, it is Christmas Day, but TMEW is still fast asleep and the Boomerang son is still in dreaming status as well. Seeing that I have to keep quiet for a while, I figured I'd surf.
Yikes! Over at Instapundit:
I'M WATCHING MIKE HUCKABEE ON KUDLOW RIGHT NOW, and he's holding forth on "overpaid CEOs."
What about governors? "Mike Huckabee's $35,000 in speaking fees from stem cell researcher Novo Nordisk is getting attention. As is his overall speaking fee policy. I'm still scratching my head at the $138,500 for fifteen speeches Huckabee collected last year." The more I learn, the less I like him.
UPDATE: Reader Ken Kemper emails:
I saw a portion of that while at the gym, and found his comments on the "overpaid executive" a tad frightening. He wants the boards of (presumably) all corporations to rein in and control the pay of these CEOs, and if the boards do not then as President he will push for congress to pass laws to do so. But only as a last resort.
So he's playing the populist "no CEO should cash out for millions while the poor schlub working the factory floor loses his retirement" shtick, and he's not afraid to campaign as a BIG government type who as president will want laws overturning free-market principles?
Tell me again why any conservative is listening to him?Beats me. But the more he talks, the fewer will do so, I suspect.
OhMyGoodness! Let's see, both slick talkers (a preacher and a lawyer), both taking the plight of the "little guy" over The Man - not a bad thing, but at the expense of principle? Being a Dem, I expect it from Edwards (and heard him say it at his campaign event here locally) - it fits.
I guess the time has passed when Republicans are going to use government to take things away from us....
Great, that reminds me - now, who does he sound like?
