Perhaps not by your definition.
Much blame has been assessed on the governors office, but the office has little power in this state. It has been gutted by successive Democrat controlled House and Senate actions and has never had much to do with anything but social initiatives, which Clinton took advantage of quite well.
Huckabee's failures, as you state, are to be blamed on those who had the power to correct them.
The recent battle regarding schools was a good example. The legislature failed and the courts took over. Huckabee did all he could do, IMO. His signature, or lack of it would not have changed anything. He used what little power he had, but it was not enough to divert funds from the various district pet projects in order to fill the gaps. The legislature sat on it's collective asses and Huckabee took the blame.
Now the notoriously weak Arkansas Republican party has joined the smarmy dems to criticize Huckabee as a scape goat for legislative failure.
I refuse to participate in these Arkansas blame festivals. The real problem is the Democrat legislature, and until the morons in this state figure that out, they will continue to be laughed at.
I was not trying to start an argument, and I agree that we have too many Dims in the legislature, that the party is shamefully weak, that we have our share of morons, but probably no more, proportionally, than the general population nationwide, and that a governor can only do so much. To do nothing, though, is inexcusable, and that is mostly what Mikie has done.
If all we require of a governor is that he occupy a seat, we would be as well off with a random drawing. What we need is someone that can demonstrate some leadership. If a governor has a legislature full of the opposition party, that is no excuse for allowing criminals like Dumond out of jail or sitting idly by while the Lakeview lawsuit is allowed to ruin the state's budget and the entire school system while driving our property taxes through the roof.
We all know what Swifty was doing in '92, when the Lakeview suit was begun, then we had good ol' Jim Guy struggling to fill his pockets, and now we have had umpteen years of Huckabee doing nothing but following along with the legislature.
I'll say it again; he is not a conservative -- not by anybody's measure --, he is not a leader, and we could not be worse off with a Dim in the governor's mansion. NO to Huckabee for President!