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Huckabee Takes Tax Pledge, Swipes Giuliani on Abortion
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ABC News' Teddy Davis and Tahman Bradley Report: Mike Huckabee, the Republican presidential candidate whose 2008 bid has been hampered among anti-tax conservatives by having approved tax increases as governor of Arkansas, announced at the Conservative Political Action Conference that he is signing Grover Norquist's "Americans for Tax Reform" pledge.
The pledge commits Huckabee to "oppose any and all efforts to increase the marginal income tax rates for individuals and/or businesses" and to "oppose any net reductions and credits, unless matched dollar for dollar by further reducing tax raises."
In an interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos which aired Feb. 11 on "This Week," Huckabee expressed concerns about signing an interest group's pledge which might put him "in a box" in his effort to "uphold the Constitution."
"It's not necessarily a gimmick. And I may decide I will sign it," said Huckabee. "But right now what I want to make sure is that I don't sign something that says if we had a catastrophic incident, a world war, which I think we're in the middle of or at least in the beginnings of already, I don't want to put myself in a box and make a pledge to an interest group that isn't really as sacred as the pledge that I would make to the people of the country to uphold the Constitution."
While trying to shore up his conservative credentials on taxes, Huckabee also took a thinly veiled swipe at Rudy Giuliani’s abortion position.
"Frankly, I'm a little disappointed when I hear people say 'I hate abortion but I don't believe we ought to regulate it,'" said Huckabee.
Huckabee said that if he and Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., face off in the general election, he will look forward to comparisons between his education record and the record compiled by former Gov. Bill Clinton, D-Ark., and his wife.
Trying to play up the notion that the top three contenders for the Republican presidential nomination are not true conservatives, Huckabee said the CPAC letters could stand for: "Conservative Presidential Anxiety Conference."
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