January 7, 2008 12:46PM 

# What Fresh Hell Is This? 

By [David Boaz](https://www.cato.org/people/david-boaz) 

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In [today’s *San Francisco Chronicle*](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/07/EDP3U9GFC.DTL), I take a look at Mike Huckabee, the winner of the Iowa caucuses:

> After a year of wringing their hands over their choices in the presidential race — a pro-choice mayor with an authoritarian streak, a serial flip-flopper, and a senator who is a dedicated opponent of free speech — the Republicans finally have a new front-runner.…
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> So … Republicans looking for a presidential candidate to inspire them are now faced with a tax-and-spend religious rightist who would have the federal government regulate everything from restaurant menus to local schools.
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> As Dorothy Parker would say, “What fresh hell is this?”

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