Do the Right Thing

Inside the Movement That's Bringing Common Sense Back To America
By Mike Huckabee
Published by Sentinel of the Penguin Group, Copyright 2008, 216 pages

A Christmas gift, and a book written by a current political figure. Mike Huckabee is the other governor from Hope Arkansas. In the 2008 he made a surprise showering in Republican primaries. Cast by the mainstream media and republican rivals, as an niche candidate with a strong religious following.
My first choice was Duncan Hunter, who by the time the primaries rolled through Georgia, was barely an asterisk. Like Hunter, Huckabee endorses the Fair Tax, this by itself I consider to be strong selling point. If applied properly, the Fair Tax would remove the staid practice of politicians playing class warfare with promises of punishing the successful to win the backing of low end of the economic demographic spectrum. At least for a while till they figure out a new path for social equalization. The Fair Tax would promote capital investment, and retard employment expatriation.
Enough about that, if he runs again and hold true to Fair Tax he has my vote.
A governor of Arkansas, the author points to many achievements. These are pluses for all governors who are by design miniature Presidents. These same attributes are often both appealing in political races and isolating in national practice.
Huckabee makes clear his beliefs...

• Lower taxes are better than higher taxes.
• The purpose of government is to protect us, to to provide for us. We should provide for ourselves.The best government is self-government.
• If there must be a form of civil government, it should be as limited as possible, and as local as possible.
• The most local government is ideal in that it is closer to those being governed and therefore must be accountable to the governed.
• Peace for a nation is best achieved by having a superior military capacity than those who pose a threat.
• Government should facilitate and not complicate the free enterprise system.Excessive taxation, regulation, and unmitigated litigation lead to job migration.
• Government intervention and regulation should be the court of last resort not the first option in anything.
• Mothers and fathers raise better children than governments do.
• Government should undergird the basic family structure and not undermine it.
• The Constitution and Bill of Rights were written to limit and restrict the government from interfering with the rights of it's citizens, not from keeping the citizens from exercising their rights.
• Small business is the backbone of the American economy, and we should make it easier not harder for an aspiring entrepreneur to succeed.

That as he says "all straight forward enough" and goes on to express that is the value set about which the Republican part needs to coalesce.
Not high art, the book reads like any television commentator's book, mimicking the spoken narrative. I enjoyed the book. Give it a try.