I disagree completely. Huckabee is an economic populist which we would have called a liberal back when liberal and conservative meant anything. I’ve said before here that I like him and wouldn’t be sorry if he won but I’m not supporting him in the primaries and this is why. Granted the language is hyperbolic, but it isn’t unfair to call him an economic progressive. If anyone’s slandered it’s Clinton who I didn’t like, didn’t want to be President but who deserves credit as a free-trader.

Tangential to your post, David: I always shake my head with disbelief when politicians are criticized for being egotistical, spotlight-craving, and/or ambitious. We need to face a basic fact: people don’t go into politics without having those traits, and people who have those traits in spades are those that rise to the political heights.

Just goes to show you that with the Christian Right, it’s all about the money. You can get a Baptist minister who is pro-life, anti-gay, and absolutely in agreement with them on all the “moral” issues. But because he might consider actually raising some taxes, he is compared with the AntiChrist, Bill Clinton.
Is this what the modern evangelical Christian movement has become? Are they so bought out by the powerful and wealthy that they have lost their first love?
We’ll see if God puts them in their place this fall. Maybe it is time for him to set aside their lampstand.

I love that one of Huck’s VVS credentials is that he is pro-Gun. I guess Jesus would have joined the NRA and supported the unregistered ownership of Uzis.

I thought the criticism of Huck was that he can’t handle foreign policy in the Iraq/post-9/11 era …
And that Gail Collins piece in the NYT the other day — with friends like that, Huck needs no enemies …

Well, a budget surplus and competent governance are liberal these days.
Proper ideological Republican government runs deficits. After all, their “investors” demand to be paid off via tax cuts and big contracts. And it sabotages the governed’s demands for due process and equal protection of the laws. Otherwise, average people might start believing those Constitutional rights, after all, and start expecting just treatment, justice, and meaningful service from government.
Inside the Republican coalition I’d say this article is a part of a building argument of the CEO/corporate owner class, which has always in fact run it, with its current core constituency of Southern Baptists.

Mike Huckabee is the Republican John Edwards.
Both Edwards and Huckabee are the best that has been offered by their respective parties, with Clinton and Romney being the worst in my opinion.

Travis – totally agree. For all my beef with the Republican pary – if Mike Huckabee is the R nominee – I will vote for him.

From what I’ve seen Tom Tancredo is the only candidate worth voting for. In fact, he’s the only one acting as if he’s running for president of the U.S. and not Mexico. The rest of them are all ignoring the ordinary American and kissing up to corporate interests who are selling out this country for cheap Mexican labor.