Your analysis is correct. His personality might be effective in a pastor; it is not what I would seek - or tolerate - in a president.
We need a president less like Huckabee and more like R. Lee Ermey.
“His personality might be effective in a pastor; it is not what I would seek - or tolerate - in a president.”
As a pastor he can pray for and try to convert the criminal but he is powerless to release them. As governor, he violated his oath to protect the people and made horrible decisions, presumably in the name of false compassion (and in at least one case because a congregant asked for the pardon).
His 1033 pardons in just 10 years were well over twice as many as Clinton issued in the same period of time and far more than the surrounding states of Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Louisiana and Tennessee (which have well over TEN TIMES the population of Arkansas) COMBINED.
http://www.arkansasleader.com/frontstories/st_08_11_04/huckabee8.html