I don’t know how you could put Huckabee in the same “bowl” with Christie and Bush. Mike Huckabee is about as conservative as you get in Fiscal Matters, Domestic and Foreign Policy and Values. You might want to catch his show on Fox News on Saturday night or his appearances on Saturday Morning Fox and Friends to verify what I have said about him.
Huckabee rhetoric not equal to Huckabee reality
I agree that on his talk show, he seems conservative, but this is from the CATO institute on his time as governor..”As governor of Arkansas, Huckabee dramatically increased state spending. During his two-term tenure, spending increased by more than 65 percent — at three times the rate of inflation.
The number of government workers increased by 20 percent, and the state’s debt services increased by nearly $1 billion. Huckabee financed his spending binge with higher taxes. Under his leadership, the average Arkansan’s tax burden increased 47 percent, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, including increases in the state’s gas, sales, income, and cigarette taxes. He raised taxes on everything from groceries to nursing home beds”
He also had an open-door policy regarding illegals when he was governor.
Huckabee conservative in fiscal matters? You gotta be kidding. He’s a big gov regulator with no understanding of market economics. He’s made his living off of the offering plate and the tax revs his whole life - until Rupert bailed him out with another non real world job.