Posted by
Dan Ducado on Monday, December 24, 2007 2:21:33 PM
In case you missed CBS' "Face the Nation" interview with Mike Huckabee,
host Bob Schieffer asked Governor Huckabee his take on today's
Republican Party. In Schieffer's words, "Are you running to change the
Republican Party as well as running for the nomination?"
Here is Governor Huckabee's answer:
I
am a Republican. And I am out to change the Republican Party. It needs
changing. It needs to be inclusive of all those people across America
for whom this party should stand.
And it's not just the
people on Wall Street. It's the people on Main Street. And there are a
lot of people in America that come up and shake my hand. They get out
of cabs. They come from behind the skycap counter and they tell me that
they appreciate the fact that I understand what it's like to struggle.
The
Republicans are not just a group of people who sit at the top. They're
people who sit around their kitchen table and worry about how they're
going to pay their rent.
I think sometimes there's this
perception that Republicans all belong to the same club. Well, the one
club they belong to is loving this country and loving its future and
wanting to do the best for their children. I think I represent those
folks.
I'm not angry at all the folks at Wall Street. In
fact, I think my policies would do more for them, but it wouldn't just
be for them. It would also be for those guys that don't necessarily
have a stock portfolio. It would be also for the people who don't have
a lobbyist in Washington.
When
we do the kind of policies that I'd like to see happen in terms of
taxes and regulation, a guy could sit down at his kitchen table, sketch
out the idea for a small business, and know that the government isn't
his biggest opposition, that he actually might be able to live the
American dream. And that's what Republicans ought to be about, helping
not just big business but small business as well.
You can
find the taped interview here on the CBS website.