But is Huckabee a “conservative savior?” He raised taxes in Arkansas, he’s pushing nanny-state solutions to things. Socially he’s very conservative and I agree with his stands on many things, but he’s another big-government “compassionate conservative” a la President Bush. He’s done and said little to prove that he’s had some sort of Damascus Road conversion to fiscal conservatism to go along with his social conservatism.
Fact is, Thompson, Hunter, and Tancredo were the closest we had to “conservative saviors” across the entire spectrum of various conservative thought. Tancredo and Hunter never got any traction, and Fred...I still haven’t figured out what happened there. Too little too late, I guess. So we got left with candidates who were conservative in some areas but not in others—Huckabee the social conservative, Romney the fiscal conservative, McCain the defense conservative—and our vote got fractured.
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No, but he WAS the candidate with the most conservative record that had a chance to win. At least, he is strongly conservative on many issues and could be trusted to nominate judges.
What you don't want to admit, apparently, is that Romney raised taxes/fees more than Huckabee per year, implemented socialized health care that is costing that state hundreds of millions of dollars per year and presided over an awful economy in that state. Yes, Huckabee's economic record was far better than Willard's, too.