Mike Huckabee: The Dark Horse Who Can Win Primaries and General Election

Headlines across the United States show that conservative Republican voters are unhappy with the current crop of candidates that they have to choose from. So much so that many influential Evangelical Christian leaders have even publicly proposed that they run a third-party candidate to challenge both Democrats and Republicans if the GOP nominates a liberal candidate such as Rudolph Giuliani.

What a lot of conservatives seem to have missed is that they had their ideal man all along. His name is Mike Huckabee.

I have long thought that Mike Huckabee, the popular governor from Arkansas, would do well in the South, perhaps win South Carolina and sweep most Southern states in the GOP primaries.

He's a Southern Baptist minister, plays bass guitar, and has a very interesting personal story about losing weight without pills or gimmicks to win out over obesity. To put it simply, he's the only true red-blooded conservative-Christian in the race.

Anti-abortion, pro-creationism, anti-gay marriage, pro-conventional nuclear families, anti-big government, pro-private sector; he's everything that both social and fiscal conservatives could want, and a whole lot more. In recent debates, he has been able to market himself well enough to the point that the national media has begun to cover his campaign, and his political opponents have begun to assail him.

That's just about good enough when running in a Republican primary where winning the hearts and minds of the ultra-activist conservative base can be the deciding factor all on their own, but Huckabee would have to then move on to win a general election against a strong Democrat in a political climate that is anything but friendly to Republicans.

That's just fine with Mike.

Above all, Huckabee is extremely likable. He's the rare politician who is always honest. He doesn't mislead, and he doesn't lie. He has seemingly never done anything "wrong"; he actually believes in all of his positions, and he doesn't go on the attack, saying that "to attack one's integrity is to expose one's own immorality."