Really he is not ultra either, though I wouldn’t call him a moderate as the term is used today. He is a middle of the road social conservative with too much “compassion” in him, and he is a little unpredictable on fiscal matters, mainly because of that compassion disease where compassion is defined as robbing one American of his hard earned money and giving it to another you find more worthy or needy. It is practicing your charity before men to be seen by them, yet being unwilling to fund it yourself. Instead you force others to fund it so that you can get the praise.
“compassion disease where compassion is defined as robbing one American of his hard earned money and giving it to another you find more worthy or needy. It is practicing your charity before men to be seen by them, yet being unwilling to fund it yourself. Instead you force others to fund it so that you can get the praise.”
You are right.
David Limbaugh wrote a recent editorial:
Single-Issue vs. Comprehensive Conservatism
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1939710/posts
Excerpt:
“I think Huckabee is a genuine Christian leader and a decent man whom I’ll support, if he’s nominated. But I think that on many political issues, he sounds a lot more like a liberal theologian and politician than a conservative one.
Liberal ones invariably translate Jesus’s heart for the poor as a mandate for massive wealth redistribution, as if state-coerced transfers of other people’s money are acts of Christian compassion. There is nothing compassionate about sapping the human spirit to the detriment of all. “