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by Justin Raimondo

10/12/07

What killed the Republican party’s long-lost love of liberty, its realism and prudence in the field of foreign affairs — think of Robert A Taft, or, better yet, Rep. Howard Buffett (yes, father to that other Howard Buffett) — is the cancer of militarism, and the baneful influence of the very military-industrial complex President Dwight Eisenhower warned us against. To hear Huckabee’s contempt — there is no other word for it — for the constitutional order, and his apparent indifference to the war-weariness of the American people, was shocking: this guy, after all, is supposed to be a moderate, of sorts, and yet here he is up-ending every law and tradition designed to limit the abuse of power. From the perspective of those concerned with preserving what’s left of our old republic, as well as preventing the next war, the team of Giuliani-Huckabee is the worst of all possible eventualities. Yet that is what we may very well get from the GOP...

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