certainly is the most exciting race we have seen in a very long time.

I’m really warming to a McCain/Huckabee candidacy, in either order as long as McCain provides experience and intellect and Huckabee brings the communication skills and humor. I think this combo is the most electable as well as being good for the country (again, as long as McCain steers policy, esp on foreign affairs.)

I’d still happily support Romney and/or Thompson if it goes that way, but I’m not getting the impression that either of them will pull ahead and I don’t see voters of either party (or independents) being inspired enough by them.

From the Today show, on the question why the GOP establishment is so much against his(Huckabee) candidacy :

They don’t control me. I’m not one of theirs. I’m not one of those guys that just owe my soul to the people on Wall Street. I’m not a wholly-owned subsidiary of them. I don’t live in the circles of power in Washington. I really do come right up from the people. . . .

There’s a sense in which all these years the evangelicals have been treated very kindly by the Republican Party. They wanted us to be a part of it. And then one day one of us actually runs, and they say, Oh, my gosh. Now they’re serious. They don’t want to just show up and vote. They actually would want to be a part of the discussion, and really talk about issues that include hunger and poverty and things that ought to be really a concern to every American, Democrat or Republican, liberal or conservative. . . . I never did propose that we would impose our religion on somebody else. What I did do [as Governor] was improve children’s health, education, the road system. But we didn’t do it just for the people at the top. The tax policies and other things we did, it helped the people at the bottom so they might have a chance to live the American dream. For that, I apologize to no one.

Poor Huck - he tries to make the spend-spend-culture war-culture war evangelicals control even more of the GOP’s business and now they don’t want another Bush. They really have exploited those innocent people haven’t they?

I really enjoy watching the GOP establishment running from the evangelical/Christian populism, Xel.
You reap what you sow, is that the correct expression?

The bottom line is that McCain would win the presidency while Huckabee will hand it to the democrats. Seems like a simple choice.

"You reap what you sow, is that the correct expression?"

A better one would be "You dance with the one who snuck you into the dance." Even better: "Cry me a river, you opportunist scumwursts."

A better one would be "You dance with the one who snuck you into the dance." Even better: "Cry me a river, you opportunist scumwursts."

I’m sorry - is that Sweden’s motto?