Michael Tanner wrote a great piece on big-government Republican Mike Huckabee.  Cato Institute has it HERE.  Check it out.

He truly appears to believe that if something is a good idea it should be a federal government program.

The article ends in this way:

On election night in 2006, 55 percent of voters leaving the polls said they believed the Republican Party had become the party of big government. Mike Huckabee is doing his best to convert the other 45.

So true.