I don’t recal anyone actually pointing out any false statements he made.
Insensitive? Maybe.
False? Let’s see.
The “Jesus and Satan” comment was deliberately misleading.
Where I come from, a half-truth is still a lie.
Still, it wasn’t the deciding factor in this race.
He lied when called Romney dishonest.
Romney made it sound like Huckabee oversaw a massive free education program to illegals. Untrue.
Also, Huckabee's governorship occured when states all over the country were faced with burgeoning budgets, due in part to unfunded mandates and federal entitlement reform. I've lived in Illinios and Wisconsin and it's been ridiculous.
From factcheck.org:
Huckabee's critics, however, have done some exaggerating of their own. That press release from former Tennessee Sen. Thompson accuses Huckabee of more than doubling state spending, from $6.6 billion to $16.1 billion at the end of 2006. But those numbers aren't correct. When we talked to Mike Stormes, the administrator of the Office of Budget for the state of Arkansas, we discovered a different story. In fact, after adjusting for inflation, we found that spending in fiscal year 1998 (the first budget for which Huckabee was responsible) was actually $10.4 billion, while spending at the end of 2006 was $15.6 billion. That’s a big increase, but it’s a far cry from doubling state spending.
It’s worth noting, too, that Huckabee, despite facing a $200 million shortfall in 2002, ended his term with a surplus of $844.5 million. A billion dollar turnaround is, we think, a noteworthy accomplishment.