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From NBC’s Domenico Montanaro





Just nine days before the Ames straw poll, the fiscally conservative Club for Growth is up with a potentially damaging attack ad on Huckabee in Iowa. The ad paints the former Arkansas governor as a “tax-and-spend"</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.0 (Build: 60608.1)</generator><item><title>Club for Growth hits Huckabee hard</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/08/02/301617.aspx#301638</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:35:29 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:301638</guid><dc:creator>jerry/corpus christi texas</dc:creator><description>He's a lower tier anyway. &amp;nbsp;Anybody who wants to raise taxes has no hope in this election.</description></item><item><title>Club for Growth hits Huckabee hard</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/08/02/301617.aspx#301640</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:36:40 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:301640</guid><dc:creator>Y oh Y</dc:creator><description>$ 200,000.00 a &amp;quot;minute&amp;quot; to be in Iraq.</description></item><item><title>Club for Growth hits Huckabee hard</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/08/02/301617.aspx#301679</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:00:13 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:301679</guid><dc:creator>Buzz</dc:creator><description>$200,000.00 a minute to be in Iraq, and Repubs think it's better to BORROW and spend, than to TAX and spend. &amp;nbsp;Why oh Why indeed.</description></item><item><title>Club for Growth hits Huckabee hard</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/08/02/301617.aspx#301691</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:09:54 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:301691</guid><dc:creator>juan,ft lauderdale,fl</dc:creator><description>Yeah how about those BORROW, SPEND AND BANKRUPT Republicans.</description></item><item><title>Club for Growth hits Huckabee hard</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/08/02/301617.aspx#301730</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:36:09 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:301730</guid><dc:creator>Jackson, Houston</dc:creator><description>Waste of money...Not even in the running....</description></item><item><title>Club for Growth hits Huckabee hard</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/08/02/301617.aspx#301737</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:41:52 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:301737</guid><dc:creator>Al, KS</dc:creator><description>Seems like Brokeback and Huckleberry are trying to garner all of the 2-3% they share...boy if one of them gets up to 3%...won't that be a big story....yawn.</description></item><item><title>Club for Growth hits Huckabee hard</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/08/02/301617.aspx#301753</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:47:33 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:301753</guid><dc:creator>F StLouis</dc:creator><description>Huckabee is a nobody to notice.</description></item><item><title>Club for Growth hits Huckabee hard</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/08/02/301617.aspx#301764</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:51:26 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:301764</guid><dc:creator>CJ</dc:creator><description>Ouch..Republicans eating their own. </description></item><item><title>Club for Growth hits Huckabee hard</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/08/02/301617.aspx#301831</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 18:28:05 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:301831</guid><dc:creator>Buzz</dc:creator><description>Juan, you DID mean in the MONETARY sense when you said BANKRUPT, right, and not the MORAL sense?</description></item><item><title>Club for Growth hits Huckabee hard</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/08/02/301617.aspx#301853</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 18:39:35 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:301853</guid><dc:creator>Sierra, San Francisco</dc:creator><description>Or 'Tax cut and spend reactionaries'&lt;br&gt;sounds like the Republicans and the 'Club for Growth' (sic)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ignorance is it's own punishment</description></item><item><title>Club for Growth hits Huckabee hard</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/08/02/301617.aspx#301855</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 18:41:56 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:301855</guid><dc:creator>Sierra, San Francisco</dc:creator><description>Ronnie Ray-Gun, the reactionary icon, raised taxes as Governor of California and as President of the US.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The right wing whackos seem to forget that</description></item><item><title>Club for Growth hits Huckabee hard</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/08/02/301617.aspx#301909</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:13:20 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:301909</guid><dc:creator>Southern Christian</dc:creator><description>And probably the only true conservative in the republican party - at least he really does know and practice his religion, but he only has one spouse so the family values party probably thinks he is one or more families short.</description></item><item><title>Club for Growth hits Huckabee hard</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/08/02/301617.aspx#301994</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:02:56 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:301994</guid><dc:creator>Megan, Westminster, MD</dc:creator><description>Uh, did the Club for Growth miss the part where Huckabee is the ONLY candidate running on a platform of actual tax REFORM? (The FairTax. Go read about it. It'll save the American economy.) This ad has nothing to do with principle - this is the Club for Growth's in-kind contribution to Brownback and Thompson.</description></item><item><title>Club for Growth hits Huckabee hard</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/08/02/301617.aspx#302078</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:52:16 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:302078</guid><dc:creator>MK,MO</dc:creator><description>taxes don't need raised per say, just adjusted to be more equitable for everyone, some people should feel a little more pain, some a little less</description></item><item><title>Club for Growth hits Huckabee hard</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/08/02/301617.aspx#302093</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:00:49 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:302093</guid><dc:creator>Keith, Cape Cod, Ma.</dc:creator><description>The Club For Growth is the Republican version of MoveOn.org. They choose a candidate to back and then spends a lot of money to discredit whoever they feel might be ahead in the polls. This can only mean one thing Mike Huckabee is ahead in the polls and he has moved up to top tier.Seriously, would the Club for Growth spend 84,000 on an candidate who was low-tier? Huckabee is getting very popular with the people of Iowa and this TV ad and money spent on it proves that.</description></item><item><title>Club for Growth hits Huckabee hard</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/08/02/301617.aspx#302125</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:22:53 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:302125</guid><dc:creator>Nick Kasoff, St. Louis, MO</dc:creator><description>Waste of money, perhaps. But it's a very amusing ad.</description></item><item><title>Club for Growth hits Huckabee hard</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/08/02/301617.aspx#302142</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:40:01 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:302142</guid><dc:creator>Jan Broucinek, Clearwter, FL</dc:creator><description>Perhaps if you educated yourself you'd see that he is truly worthy of notice. The press just doesn't want you to see it.</description></item><item><title>Club for Growth hits Huckabee hard</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/08/02/301617.aspx#302180</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 22:28:56 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:302180</guid><dc:creator>chuck, richmond, tx</dc:creator><description>Yeah, Jan. &amp;nbsp;Good one. &amp;nbsp;The press has it out for Huckabee. &amp;nbsp;(insert eye roll here!)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Why would the Club for Growth run an attack ad against Huckabee? &amp;nbsp;I don't know who they're backing but this is either an incredible waste of money or they're expecting Huckabee to finish much higher than anyone else is. &amp;nbsp;Could the Club for Growth be that fiscally irresponsible?</description></item><item><title>Club for Growth hits Huckabee hard</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/08/02/301617.aspx#302404</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 03:15:29 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:302404</guid><dc:creator>RH, AK</dc:creator><description>Huckabee raised taxes in Arkansas only after the voters approved it first, by over 80%, to improve some of the worst roads in the country. &amp;nbsp;He also CUT taxes almost 100 times, saving taxpayers almost $380 million. &amp;nbsp;When he left office, he left a budget surplus of almost $850 million.</description></item><item><title>Club for Growth hits Huckabee hard</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/08/02/301617.aspx#304219</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 14:21:28 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:304219</guid><dc:creator>nuanced</dc:creator><description>It is really a brilliant pro-Huckabee ad. Watch, his recognition and numbers in the polls will rise after this.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Is Club being used as a noun or a verb?</description></item><item><title>Club for Growth hits Huckabee hard</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/08/02/301617.aspx#472349</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 18:50:50 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:472349</guid><dc:creator>monique alponte</dc:creator><description>now it's 11/18, doesn't look like the ad smear campaign worked. &amp;nbsp;mike huckabee's practically 1st in Iowa. &amp;nbsp;and he didn't have to bag on any of the other candidates to get there, he didn't even have to spend any money.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;he's a man that doesn't have to &amp;quot;pay for it.&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;i also checked into the claim and i found he IS NOT A TAX HIKER.</description></item></channel></rss>