Don’t bother with dark hints about CFG either. I know full well about the contributions they got from Mr. Stephens, but they spent all of it on ads revealing Huck’s record. They didn’t keep a dime.

Huckabee has said he would consider looking into cap in trade and has by no means guaranteed it as being apart of future policy. He is by nature a conservationist and his record on the matter is pretty crystal conservative.

He saw a potential SCHIP compromise as a possible way of slashing welfare to a fraction of what it is today in his typical make lemons into lemonade approach that worked so well with Democrats in Arkansas. Once you consider the surplus he left and the tax cuts resulting right after he left office largely thanks to his lobbying for them, Taxes were nearly the same after over a decade. This is Arkansas we are talking about, one of the lowest tax states in the country. To have such a massive improvment in services while having a better spending record as governor than Reagan did is truly awesome.

The genius he ha in selling conservatism of an almost radical sort to liberals has got him in trouble. He talks so much about the children he helped with his policies that people naturally think he increased spending to a program to do it as with ARKids. Liberals did not realize that Huckabee was getting people off welfare en masse with this program. But unfortunately most conservatives do not get it either and have falsely labeled him a big government liberal.

Huckabee is strongly against McCain Feingold and has recently made it a regular target considering McCain is now his only opponent. He does however support some sort of regulation in this area unless I am mistaken.

As for life and guns, it is not just position. It is a willingness and a desire to lead on these issues and be capable of doing something about it. Huckabee is the most articulate and convincing on these issues and is head and shoulders above everyone else.

Also, the prebate is not an entitlement. it is a prebate on taxes that will be paid, nothing else. It is supported by anti entitlement Neil Boortz for crying out loud. And is the flattest tax plan with any shot of replacing the current one. And again Huckabee i the only one who really has shown and ability to sell tax reform of any kind.

As for Illegal Immigration, Huckabee’s state and any other state is incapable of unilaterally being tough on immigration without destroying its agricultural economy. This has to be dealt with at the federal level and Huckabee’s stand is directly impacted by the desk he is behind.

On economics he actually made an anemic economy one of the fastest growing… seems like he is solid on this issue. Increasing the per capita income of a state by over 50% while keeping tax hikes less than half the national average aint half bad.

And the CoG has interests other than the truth when it comes to Huck’s tax record.

The only spot were Huckabee might be weaker is foreign policy… this makes McCain a good appointment for a Huckabee cabinet if anything.

Actually, I would agree on your main point. Neither is perfect, and neither would earn the C-word label as a noun.

Darel,

Huck leans left far more than McCain, and I’m guessing your support for Paul has more to do with his dovishness on the war than anything else.

Ron Paul is the only true conservative and I’m proud to vote for him…. No matter what McCain nor Huckabee will obtain my vote at all. Regardless if they one obtains the nominaiton. Neither understand our economic issues nor doe they understand the issues we face in Iraq or beyond.