I confess I am not sure. Today Robert Novak came out with a blistering column that agrees with a strongly negative National Review editorial a week ago. Novak titled his column "The False Conservative."
Huckabee is campaigning as a conservative, but serious Republicans know that he is a high-tax, protectionist advocate of big government and a strong hand in the Oval Office directing the lives of Americans.
Huckabee's pro-life stance causes conservatives like me to want to like him, but accusations like the following I find really troubling:
But Huckabee simply does not fit within normal boundaries of economic conservatism, such as when he criticized President Bush's veto of a Democratic expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program. Calling global warming a "moral issue" mandating "a biblical duty" to prevent climate change, he has endorsed a cap-and-trade system that is anathema to the free market.
Read the whole article. Conservatives need to weigh Huckabee's pros and cons carefully.