Huck Stumbling?
Looks like it:
So the view is settling in that to nominate Huckabee would be to abandon the party’s devotion to economic policies that have made the United States the global growth champion not just as measured by grow domestic product but (despite the drumbeat to the contrary from Democrats) broadly based personal incomes. That is not going to happen. On foreign policy, Huckabee’s candidacy is even more of a non-starter. Democrats may trumpet that the GOP candidates are all running from President Bush. The truth is that every serious contender but Huckabee has embraced the President’s policies if not always his execution in Iraq and the War on Terror. Huckabee’s now notorious Foreign Affairs article and his fumbling and uninformed comments following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto have convinced many that Huckabee is far from ready for prime time. Since the late 1960s, the American people have turned to the GOP for leadership whenever the nation’s safety has dominated their concerns. Again, the view is settling in that Huckabee’s nomination would represent an abandonment of that legacy and responsibility. So Huckabee is stumbling. Look for some of his supporters to leave him by Thursday and for boosters of candidates far back in the pack to decide to cast their ballots so he comes in second, rather than staying with their first choices. Because of the compressed calendar, Iowa cannot determine the GOP nominee this year, but it can exercise a veto. At this writing – despite Huckabee still leading in the Real Clear Politics average of polls – the candidate they effectively nix looks likely to be Mike Huckabee.