[Prokopton]

"One of (Huckabee's) 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, protect the rights of parents to home-school their children, eliminate the marriage penalty in the tax code, outlaw same-sex marriage, and require parental consent for abortion. He also launched a program to provide health insurance to more than 70,000 children, ARKids First."

This is the rest of the story:

"He's got a preacher's mentality. He sees all these needs and he thinks it's the role of the federal government to meet them,"

[dano1]

"This is the rest of the story"

Those interested should read the whole article which contains more about Huckabee. The Christian Science Monitor is one of those papers from which we aren't able to post entire articles. However I thought the article gave a fairly balanced view of Huckable. I agree with you, (I think), that certainly Huckabee has some "compassionate conservative" leanings, although IMHO he is far from a Democrat.

Huckabee is certainly getting a lot of free media lately. This article really seemed like Huckabee 101 for the Christian Science Monitor readers.