Erick Erickson (the 69th most influential conservative in the US) has another good post up about Mike Huckabee over at RedState:

Mike Huckabee is a Southern conservative Democrat in his views, when you combine the fiscal and social sides of the candidate coin. That's going to leave the entrepreneurial class looking elsewhere. Couple that with Mike's Willie Horton issue that Hillary will no doubt throw at him that's going to leave the GOP out of the White House, if Huckabee is the nominee.

The irony here is that I've started calling Mike Huckabee the "C. S. Lewis candidate." In Mere Christianity, Lewis writes

If there were such a [Christian] society in existence and you or I visited it, I think we should come away with a curious impression. We should feel that its economic life were very socialistic and, in that sense, 'advanced', but that its family life and its code of manners were rather old fashioned — perhaps even ceremonious and aristocratic. Each of us would like some bits of it, but I am afraid very few of us would like the whole thing.

Couple Huckabee's economic populist rhetoric with his socially conservative values and that's what you'd get. Of course, with so few real Christians running the show with him, I suspect we'd get economically unsound policies, not just charity and fairness to all mankind, as Lewis is describing.

Erick takes a quote from Huckabee and John Edwards on CEO's and a quote from Reagan on how others like to blame successful individuals for what is perceived to be inequality. Looking at the quotes from Huckabee and Reagan clearly shows that Huckabee's rhetoric mirrors the class warfare of John Edwards than anyone or anything else.