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Posted at 1:57pm on Dec. 8, 2007 Huckabee and small-government.

By Paul J Cella

I’m pretty much in agreement with Josh Trevino on Mike Huckabee. The criticism of him on small-government grounds has solid merit, alright, but what of it?

We’re nearing the end of two terms of big government Republicanism from George W. Bush, which was basically advertised as such from the beginning, and during most of which time small-government criticism was muted. I can remember contending against No Child Left Behind and the Medicare bill years ago, in the online presence of many good small-government men, to no avail. They stonefaced me. Back in about 2003 I even repeated a traditional Republican argument about how war, according to an old saw, “is the health of the State.”

The context of that 2003 argument might be worth revisiting:

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