Giuliani now only 3% ahead of Huckabee in National Poll, 20-17%, was 27-14 just 4 days ago

[Dems Will Win]

From Rasmussen Daily Poll. Huckabee could soon be in first NATIONALLY. Wow. BootyGate is killing Rudy.

Also the Huckster is 5 ahead in Iowa:

DesMoines Register Iowa Caucus Poll: Dec. 1, 2007
Huckabee 29%
Romney 24%
Guiliani 13%
Thompson 9%
McCain 9%

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/

Huckabee on the POPULIST issues:

On the Republican party's traditional economic position:

"I understand that the economy for every American is not just whizzer-bang fantastic," he says. "I'm not necessarily in total sync with the small universe of Republicans who are the CEOs of Wall Street companies, although many of them know what I'm saying is the truth. But I'm very much in sync with the guys who work up and down the factory line."

On Unions:

"The real fact is, unions are going to take a more prominent role in the future for one simple reason: A lot of American workers are finding that their wages continue to get strapped lower and lower while CEO salaries are higher and higher.
And the reality is that when you have the average CEO salary 500 times the average worker, and you have the hedge fund manager making 2,200 times that of the average worker, you're going to create a level of discontent that's going to create a huge appetite for unions.
So unions are the natural result of workers finally saying, ‘Look, I can't go from a $70,000 year job to a $15,000 a year job and feed my family of four.’ That's when unions are going to come back in roaring form."

On trade:

"Free trade has to be fair trade. We are losing jobs because of an unlevel, unfair trading arena that has to be fixed. Behind the statistics, there are real families, real lives, and real pain. I'm running for President because I don't want people who have worked loyally for a company for 20 or 30 years to walk in one morning and be handed a pink slip and be told, ‘I'm sorry, but everything you spent your life working for is no longer here.'"

Of course he thinks the universe is only 6,000 years old, so no one is perfect....

[MonkeyFunk]

1. I've said it before and I'll say it again...

I think Huckabee's gonna win this. The frontrunners are just disliked by much of the party. Huckabee could well be the surprise winner.

[Pawel K]

3. I hope not, I think he would put up the best challange against any democrat. nt

[AX10]

4. Do you see him as a threat to us in the General Election?

[MonkeyFunk]

5. Yes

I think he'd be the most formidable candidate they could nominate.

[Dems Will Win]

6. Huckabee is only 1% behind Clinton NATIONALLY right now

Clinton may not beat him, especially since it appears the media is sitting on a big Clinton story about Bill boinking a married woman the last few years...

That will defeat Hillary as too many voters dont want Bill Clinton having affairs in the WH again.

Darn!

[bluestateguy]

8. Any Republican nominee should be taken seriously

If they were able to win the nomination in a crowded field, the can win the general election.

[bluestateguy]

7. Does Hillary have her Wayne Dumond ads ready to go against the Huckster?

She may want to start sendning her opposition researchers to Little Rock.

[Pawel K]

2. As much as I hate Huckabee I truly admire all the weight that this guy lost

its unbelievable.

[skipos]

9. Fiscal conservatives hate Huckster more than the Jesus-rode-a-dinosaur crowd hates 9iu11iani

it will be interesting to see them duke it out.

[On the Road]

10. Nationally????

Wow wow wow wow wow

[riderinthestorm]

11. Dangerous for Dems

And certainly an eye-opener that the average neanderthal Rethug evangelical is still a force to be reckoned with....

I don't like it. I don't like this at all. Huckabee is a narrowminded bigot softly cast as the guy you'd wanna have a beer with... this is the sort of cult-of-personality that got us Commander Awol despite his many failings. The media will overlook his absolute bizarre rightwing positions and fawn over his "nice guy" persona.

His handlers will carefully cultivate his "normal guy" atributes in comparison to... Hillary? Obama?

Huckabee is an enormous problem for Dems.