Expect more articles like this one as long as Mike Huckabee is polling well, and if (or when?) he wins the primary it will be his views on the economy that doom him.
Which demonstrates, once again, how sticky politics has become for Republicans in the past few years: They need candidates who pander outrightly to fit in well with a base of poor and middle-class social conservatives, but who only really shill to industry and the wealthy. At the same time, though, they don't feel as if they can outrightly support somebody who behaves so much like George Bush. It's a razor sharp line. And, oddly, the candidate best fit to walk it might be John McCain.
