Paul Mirengoff, Powerline, chides Mike Huckabee for foolishly comparing himself to Ronald Reagan. Paul suggests a far better analogy:
When it comes to foreign policy, Huckabee more closely resembles another former governor, Jimmy Carter. It was Carter, not Reagan, who viewed foreign policy as an extension of his own character and personal principles. Carter stood for a foreign policy “as decent as the American people.” Reagan stood for defeating our enemies. When Huckabee frets about how Gitmo is making us appear to foreigners, when he asserts that “we broke Iraq,” and when he says he’s qualified to be commander-in-chief because of his character rather than because of his understanding of our enemies, it’s pretty clear that his foreign policy roots extend nowhere near the fertile soil of Reaganism.
Jimmy Carter put his personal vanity ahead of America’s self-interest. Like Carter, Huckabee lacks the personal fortitude to do what right for his country rather than what will sate his conscience. Carter wasn’t up to being President, and neither is Huckabee.
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