Mike Huckabee is a “Christian socialist.”
You and I will have to disagree on that one. The Fair Tax is not a socialist position and his positions on spending were better than the supposed “capitalists” we have been told to support currently and in the past (Bush, Romney, etc ....).
My belief on this is that his past as a pastor, combined with his “down home” way of speaking, made the secular class of Republicans and talking heads so uncomfortable that they viewed him negatively from the beginning. They cited his speaking about issues for “common people” as too “populist” and “socialistioc.” But since when is our party against talking about those who are not financially well off?
If you examined his rhetoric closely, he spoke to issues that affected those on the lower rungs of the economic ladder, but offered conservative solutions, like the fair tax, to solve them.
The Fair Tax is regressive and unfair to low income families. Some would argue that socialism requires regressive taxes.
... on spending were better than the supposed “capitalists” we have been told to support currently and in the past (Bush, Romney, etc ....).
Huckabee raised taxes in Arkansas as governor. That is not (fiscally or economically) conservative at all.
My belief on this is that his past as a pastor, combined with his “down home” way of speaking, made the secular class of Republicans and talking heads so uncomfortable that they viewed him negatively from the beginning.
My main problems with Mike Huckabee, aside from being yet another GOP tax-and-spender, included the fact that he is soft on crime (pardoning a violent sex offender, common sense would always dictate one says no to that!), wrong on the War on Terror (openly critical of Bush's foreign policy, do we really need that on "our" side?), and anti-school-choice (endorsed by the NEA).
Just because someone is pro-life doesn't mean that the same someone can simply label themselves a "conservative."
Except on the most important issue, immigration, where he was a true leftist/globalist, just like Jimmah.