“He may be conservative on social issues, but when it comes to economic issues like immigration, he’s a liberal on immigration. He fought for tuition breaks for illegal aliens. He raised taxes time and time again as governor or Arkansas,” Romney stated during his interview on CNN.
Despite his Mormon faith, Mitt Romney has been a frontrunner in the Republican polls in Iowa. But according to surveys in the last two weeks, Huckabee has closed the gap with Romney. Both of them have put themselves in the mantle of former President Ronald Reagan.
Romney said that Reagon’s direction and vision was powerful and compelling. He implied that Huckabee was no Ronald Reagan.
“And I’ll tell you, Ronald Reagan would have never raised taxes like Mike Huckabee did.”
“Ronald Reagan would never have said let’s give tuition breaks to illegals like Mike Huckabee did. Ronald Reagan would never stood by and pushed for a budget that more that doubled during his term as president.”
Romney continued to talk about Ronald Reagan. He said that they both were pro-life. Huckabee was blasted by Robert Novak as being a “false conservative.”