[He’s a legit Christian, an evangelical, who is motivated politically by some sort of social gospel “Kingdom on Earth” theology which leads him to embrace quasi=Marxist economics and an open-borders view of immigration.]
Wrong. It is the rino right that supports the marxist economic policies of the liberal left and it will sever the GOP. You are so wrong, evengelical conservatives are pro captalists who recognize that God gave every Jew who came into Israel after the exodus a part of the land and therefore started the captalist system that includes land ownership. Liberals and rinos do not understand private property rights and it shows.
First of all, evangelical Christians are all over the map politically, and they seem much more conservative that they are because the President's political advisers have been very astute with evangelical hot button issues.
But, since my post was about Mike Huckabee and not about RINOs, what does your comment have to do with what I wrote about Huckabee?
"Gov. Huckabee is a candidate that should appeal to fiscal conservatives. He has signed the Presidential Taxpayer Protection Pledge which binds the signer to "oppose any and all efforts to increase the marginal income tax rates for individuals and/or businesses … and oppose any net reduction or elimination of deductions and credits, unless matched dollar for dollar by further reducing tax rates"; he supports the FairTax, which would abolish the IRS and replace the Internal Revenue Code with a consumption tax; he believes in free trade (that is, fair trade) and claims that "globalization, done right, done fairly, can be the equivalent of a big pay raise by allowing us to buy things more cheaply.""
"Some of us were initially duped by the white paper on Huckabee that was released by the Club for Growth. Even though CFG is slightly outside of the mainstream on conservative fiscal policies (CFG is to fiscal conservatism what the Christian Coalition is to social conservatism), we respect the organization and appreciate their valuable work. Nevertheless, we were dismayed by their report that was at times misleading, if not outright dishonest."
"We acknowledge that the Club for Growth believes that state sales taxes should never be increased to pay for such entitlements as education, Medicare, highways, and economic development. We understand that this is the reason that they oppose Gov. Huckabee’s record. But we believe that most Americans—and most conservatives—are not minarchists. We do not think the fiscal conservative bona fides of a man who cut taxes and fees almost 100 times, saving the taxpayers almost $380 million, and left a surplus of nearly $850 million should be denigrated because he took such actions as implementing a 1/8-cent sales tax hike. Although we respect the CFC, we are dismayed at the disingenuous means that the group has used to smear the Governor’s character. "