Your entire post was excellent, but this snippet was especially insightful.
Huckabee and McCain are far too willing to extort money from the hard-working productive citizens of this great country to enable big government--in its heavy-handed, stupid, discriminatory, woefully inefficient way--to exercise "compassion." This may make these two men feel really good and holy about themselves, but in the end their misguided efforts inflict even more inefficiencies and waste on everyone else and create a deeper cesspool of misery than they started with. In this, they are no different than Lyndon Johnson whose "Great Society" nonsense destroyed entire generations of black Americans while flushing trillions of dollars down the "compassion" toilet.
What I really like about Romney is that he doesn't buy into such nonsense. He is far too good of a businessman to buy into it.
A very good insight. Perhaps this is what differentiates Romney from the rest of the pack. Romney alone had to test his realities against the brutal realism of the marketplace.