Democratic Party officials regard Mike Huckabee as a candidate with a "glass jaw" and an "easy kill." Huckabee is probably more flavor of the month than the next presidential nominee of the Republican Party, but it's worth noting that the Democrats salivated over the prospect of facing Ronald Reagan in 1980's election in a manner akin to how they react to Huckabee now. Be careful what you wish for. Democrats habitually underestimate just how socially conservative American voters are. The Baptist minister Huckabee's upfront beliefs that America is a Christian nation and his opposition to homosexual "marriage" and abortion, such Democrats think, is an albatross upon the good ship Huckabee. In the Republican primaries, and even in the general election, such stances will alienate voters in the blue bantustans. But in that giant red sea that is America, Huckabee's politically incorrect views on God and gays, and AIDS and abortion, would be controversial but no albatross. Pushing to release rapists, seeking a national ban on smoking in public places, and unveiling a federal "Weapons of Mass Instruction" plan on the arts in local schools? That oxymoronic big-government conservatism, on the other hand, will be Huckabee's albatross.

Mike Huckleberry? The incidental Governor of Arkansas?? Outside of pushing to build a Mexican embassy in Little Rock to better service illegal sanctuary non-citizens, what has he done?

Being a "compassionate conservative" (that is pro-big govt) didn't hurt Bush any. But I do think that that trick won't work so well this time around.

Nice post.

Regarding Huckabee's outrageous stances, though - this evidences why, to me, a candidate's stand on certain social issues is not necessarily as important as his or her understanding of federalism. He would sign a national ban on smoking in public? I had to follow that link to see for myself. This is someone who calls himself a conservative?

A "conservative" is just as dangerous as a liberal when s/he believes there is no limit to Congressional power.

Are being anti-abortion and anti-gay "marriage" an albatross for the good ship Huckabee?

Well, if I remember rightly, the albatross was a good luck charm . . . until someone killed it.

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