Meanwhile, establishment Republicans are almost pathologically unable to come to grips with what is happening here.

Like Dean, Huckabee is an under-vetted former governor who is manifestly unprepared to be president of the United States. Like Dean, he is rising toward the top of polls in a crowded field based on his appeal to a particular niche of his party. As with Dean, his vulnerabilities in a general election are so screamingly obvious that it’s hard to believe that primary voters, once they focus seriously on their choice, will nominate him.

Note to Rich Lowry: Republican primary voters are in the process of nominating Mike Huckabee for president. It is happening. Don't keep missing the forest for the trees.

These predictions of "Huckacide" are going to be very awkward to walk back from when the guy lands at the top of the ticket.

But I was so looking forward to seeing Judith Nathan spend four years doing her best Eva Braun impersonation. At the very least we would have had four years knowing that somewhere out there a pundit would eventually slip and say "First Whore." While we were waiting for Il Douche to bring on Armageddon, that is.

I know it may look like it on a map, but Florida is not the South. Its a COMPLETELY different world. The panhandle has some southern elements, but everything south is a completely different mix.

This should not come as a surprise really. After the past two decades when the Republicans spent a good deal of time nurturing and pandering to their "base" of wingnut crazies, it looks like one of them is on top of the pile and most of them are positively soiling themselves. They never were taught to be careful what you wish for...

I love the comment "Rudy Sleeps with the Fishes".... terrific

Huckicide is for real - Politico has a very good story on the gifts this guy has accepted and the positions he nominated people to.

He took $70,000 in furniture and tried to claim it as his own - but eventually yielded to a "no contest" in an ethics lawsuit. He took $55,000 in clothing???

To all the homeschooling crowd - get back in the tent with the security and fiscal conservatives and stop this nonsense. I voted R last 3 cycles plus twice for Reagan - but I would rather vote Obama than the Huckabigot.

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I'm really not surprised that Huckabee is surging, especially in the southern and more conservative states. The reason is really simple: he has charisma and knows how to communicate well (Markos of DailyKos says he's so appealing it's scary) and he's a conservative who's not a Mormon. Am I missing something?

We should all donate money to Huck's campaign. He would probably turn out to be the least electable of all the repugs. Giuliani is the only (former) frontrunner who really polled well at all against either Hillary or Obama, and from the comments I have heard from Giuliani supporters amongst the indie crowd, it had a lot to do with his moderate social views. Huckabee, OTOH, is a racist, a homophobe, and all round complete rightwing whackjob. He is on record as not believing in evolution, something even W was smart enough to obfuscate. Go, Mike!!

Our Democracy becomes ever more bottoms-up.

People want to vote for a 'guy like me' - not some patrician with a fancy education.

So get used to it. More elections will be won by 'guys like me' .... guys with little education, who have traveled very little, who speak poor English and no other language ...