Huckabee's 'liberal' problem
- Neil Skene - PolitiFact
- Jan 12, 2008
Former Gov. Mike Huckabee made his way through Arkansas' Democratic political landscape as a social conservative Republican with a streak of populist empathy for the downtrodden. It's that last part that's causing him grief among Republicans.
Up in the far northwest corner of Arkansas, where tight-fisted Sam Walton started the Wal-Mart empire and where Tyson Foods is the world’s largest chicken processor, Republican State Sen. Kim Hendren thinks Democrat Bill Clinton and Huckabee were both good governors of Arkansas.
“America didn’t do too badly when [Clinton] served those eight years in Washington,” Hendren adds. Even allowing for some Arkansas pride, that’s not something you hear from Republicans very much.
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