Deace is on top of things. Huckabee was a reasonable choice when the alternatives were McCain, Romney and Giiuliani, etc. Right now, he offers weak tea with no coherent underlying philosophy, and the fact that he was a governor, and therefore has poliical executive experience.
He was a lousy choice! He'd have used government as much as any Democrat, and we'd have endorsed it with our vote. We'd have said, "yep, that's what we want."
I refuse to vote for something I believe is destroying freedom and prosperity, and that is the use of government to advance charity, among other things. In "conservatives" of Huckabee's ilk, "conservative" is code for "Christian" and little else. In his eyes, charity is a Christian duty and therefore the government should do it a Christian way.
In "conservatives" of Cruz's ilk, "conservative" refers to the use of government. "Conservative," as in, "with restraint." That's the only kind of "conservative" I'm interested in.
I'm sorry, but Huckabee was pro government all the way, and never was and will never be a "reasonable" choice to vote for.
I never was a converted Huckabee person. I always thought he set up the program on FOX .. just to get national name recognition.
However, I don’t know Steve Deace .. so I have no idea whether his switching to Cruz is a good thing or not. Unless he has the integrity of Rush Limbaugh .. I’ll wait and see.
I’m still in the Cruz camp, and I’m putting my money where my mouth is.