Especially Chris. Here's why:

"One of his first moves as governor was to review state laws, rules, and practices with an eye to their impact on families. He signed legislation to double the child-care tax credit...He also launched a program to provide health insurance to more than 70,000 children, ARKids First.

Faith also played a role in Huckabee's response to hurricane Katrina. As 70,000 evacuees were gathering on planes and buses, Huckabee summoned faith leaders to the governor's mansion. Within 24 hours, volunteers in church camps across the state were prepared to accept busloads of displaced people. Huckabee told state officials and volunteers to treat people the way they would want to be treated if they showed up on someone else's doorstep with just the clothes on their back.

His real leadership came in the way he communicated it to everybody," says Chris Pyle, Huckabee's speechwriter and former director of family policy. "He said: We are going to meet their needs and figure how to pay for it later."

He's also come under fire for too readily commuting the sentences of felons and proposing in-state tuition and scholarships for illegal immigrants.

I think in his heart he really believes that he's for the underdog. Like a lot of people in the state, he grew up in rather meager means," says former GOP state Sen. Peggy Jeffries.

The key to leadership, Huckabee says, isn't to govern on a left-to-right ideological scale. "Vertical leadership is when you are leading people on the basis of things that will directly impact their lives," he says. Put in the terms of his faith: It's the Golden Rule in action.

'I do not spell G.O.D. ... G.O.P. Our party may be important, but our principles are even more important than anybody's political party,' Huckabee said to values voters last month."

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1107/p01s04-uspo.html

Herbert Huckabee

The guy has a great heart and a decent mind. He deserves to be heard.

And so we have.

Fair enough for now?

If he were a democrat, I'd vote for him.

Herb

That is an interesting series in the CSM.

As for Huckabee, I like his all too human contradictions, and I admire his spirit. He was one of the few in regional government to react quickly to Katrina. He deserves praise for his efforts.

Certainly not my guy on a wide variety of issues, but like John Edwards, he is much more in tune with domestic policy than most of the others running in the field. Like Paul, he is an interesting outsider.

He may be a true compassionate conservative, but that also might be a handicap. He seems too environmentalist for the neo-cons, too soft on the poor for the fiscal conservatives, and too holy for the regular folks.

Herb said - " If he were a democrat, I'd vote for him."

Well, why don't you then?

Who ARE you voting for anyway?

Huckabee does seem to be the best Republican candidate so far, but Herb do you really want to see another former Arkie governor in the White House?

"Who ARE you voting for anyway?"

Huckabee is my guy in the primary. What I was saying was that if a democrat with his positions ran, he or she would have my vote.

"...do you really want to see another former Arkie governor in the White House?"

I'll admit it seems kind of weird voting for a former Arkansas governor. The difference?

One talks the talk. The other walks the walk.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=071108141300.itqpvuim&show_article=1

Herb

Huckabee seems like a down to earth guy. However, when someone tells me they don't believe in evoloution and want to make abortion illegal, I can't consider them any further than that.

I wonder where he stands on the shape of the Earth?

Flat, no doubt.

A a pancake....
Unless Bush and Co. get behind him with some good hush money The Huckster is DOA!