Mike Huckabee... Dangerous, and bad for America.

Thankyou for accepting the challenge, and I would first like to add something I thought was quite funny... I'm from Arkansas, supporting a Texan, and your from Texas, supporting an Arkansan. Fate? lol "Ron Paul is not as "cool" as you think he is. He is a second-rate congressman from here in Texas that no one had ever heard of until he started his "anti-war" bandwagon and college students jumped on." First, I don't think going after my candidate makes for a strong argument against Huckabee being dangerous, and even if this was a debate against my candidate... saying that he was only popular after "college students jumped on" is a very compelling argument. Ron Paul has supporters in other countries... but I'm sure they are all collage students. So is Bill Clinton the scapegoat for every Republican tax hike? I've heard this argument with Bush, with congress, and now Mike Huckabee. The truth is, During Huckabee's tenure, taxes were cut ninety times for savings of $378 million dollars, while taxes were raised twenty-one times for an increase of $883 million dollars. That is a Tax surplus of $505 Million dollars! 505 million for roads and education? Yeah, I've seen how the money had been spent on roads here in Arkansas. They have dug up and repaved various roads in my town 4 times! When they weren't needed! And our public schools haven't received a dime! On the other hand, he has used and tax payer dollars for other things… and has even been charged with multiple counts of misusing Arkansan taxpayer dollars; (USING PUBLIC FUNDS FOR PURPOSES NOT AUTHORIZED BY LAW) (USING PUBLIC FUNDS WITHOUT AN EMERGENCY AND WITHOUT THE APPROVAL OF A MAJORITY OF THE PROPER LEGISLATIVE OFFICERS) (USING PUBLIC FUNDS CONTRARY TO THE TERMS OF THE APPROPRIATION, WITHOUT A SPECIFIC APPROPRIATION, AND WITHOUT A DISTINCTLY STATED PURPOSE) (USING PUBLIC FUNDS FOR LOCAL AND SPECIAL PROJECTS) (USING PUBLIC FUNDS FOR EXPENSE REIMBURSEMENTS) (DESTRUCTION OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY, MISUSE OF PUBLIC FUNDS FOR PERSONAL BENEFIT) Ect… And of coarse, you still have the argument that his taxes were necessary, but during his tenure, he made no attempts to lower spending so he wouldn't have to tax! He increased state spending 65.3 percent!!! In fact, even though Arkansas is Democrat territory, Huck was the biggest taxer and spender in Arkansas history. He even signed a $5.25 bed-tax on private nursing home patients in 2001! I wonder if Mike really has Jesus on his mind as much he does money. He is famous for taking bribes, has appointed those who gave him gifts to a number of offices, and has been investigated by a government ethics commission 14 times! Five of those times resulted in a official Reprimand. The issues include personal use of government funds, funneling money through a false "charity", hiding donor information, and misreporting personal income. Some Christian… But if you are so worried about my candidate… how does Paul stack up when it comes to money? He does not use taxpayer money for his travels, never voted for a congressional pay raise, and even returns some of his office budget to the US Treasury each year. He wouldn't even vote for giving Nancy Reagan a gold medal on behaf of Ronald Reagan because it would cost taxpayer money. But said before congress that he would gladly help pay for it himself and asked the rest of congress to join him, no one did. You should be worried that Mike Huckabee supports government funding of church's ministerial work. Because as the federal government continues to provide more and more funding for churches, they surrender their Christian sovereignty to the State, and the eventual result is manipulated official state churches similar to what we see in Communist China. And I don't believe all Huckabee supports are crazy fanatics… I know there are some, but the same goes for Paul. If I thought you all were crazy and wouldn't listen to reason, I wouldn't put forth the effort of debating Huckabee supporters. I just know too many bad things about Mike Huckabee, and I wouldn't believe that man for a moment. And no, the reason I support Ron Paul isn't because we have the same political views... it is because he is the first politician I have ever trusted. His record speaks volumes…