I will respond to your other post when I have a little personal time...but this I will respond to right now because it is typical of your spin and/or inability to analyze political data that's right in front of your face. It's true the Cato Institute is libertarian and that as a social conservative I disagree with them on some issues. But Cato, while advancing libertarian ideas advance fiscal conservative ideas and oppose the nanny state, and it's for this reason that they dislike Huckabee.
I mean really...is it your contention that a bunch of Libertarians are going to have a problem with a guy who wants to kill the IRS and then promote small government? That would be like Kate Michelman opposing condom distribution. No, Huckabee is opposed by libertarians and many social conservatives like myself because he's a social progressive in the early 1900s sense of the word.
Cato named Huckabee one of the worst governors in the country over purely fiscal issues, not social ones. Spin all you want, but that's the truth.
You have no grounds to say so. Neither do they. Only superficial factoids taken out of context, which don’t tell the story accurately. That is the kind of behavior that gives some conservatives the bad name of “reactionary.”