Huckabee Watch

“Hello all you happy people. You know what? I’m still going to win Iowa.”

The gloves are coming off, particularly on the Right…

You know you’ve rocked the boat when, as a Republican, you get this kind of rough treatment from Fox News Sunday.

Andrew Sullivan is (unsurprisingly) dismayed by Huckabee’s non-apology for the AIDS quarantine remarks, finds echoes of Bush.

National Review jumps Huckabee on foreign policy.

Huck (playa) hates Mormons? Drudge started this story by posting the speech - with friends like these…

Romney is “convinced as people take a good hard look at Mike Huckabee’s record, they’ll see this is a guy who is soft on criminals, soft on illegal aliens, but hard on taxpayers. And that’s not what’s going to lead the Republican party to take the White House.”
And Mitt will be the first to air a GOP-on-GOP attack ad, targeting Huckabee on immigration.

On the other hand - is all this Huckabee-bashing too little too late?

No wonder Mitt’s scared. From the WP: “Huckabee may well advance to the nomination finals,” said John Weaver, who was McCain’s chief strategists until they had a parting of the ways last summer, “and in doing so accomplish something neither Rudy or McCain could do: eliminate Romney.”

We already knew South Carolina would be a pitch straight into Huckabee’s wheelhouse, but keep an eye on what is sure to be an emerging story: Huckabee’s Iowa surge is starting to impact the New Hampshire polls.

And last but not least, Frank Rich asks whether Huck could be “The Republican Obama”. This is great press, but I’m more intrigued by Cornel West’s endorsement!
Even Barack can’t claim that.