This Huckabee thing on the right is getting more and more interesting. It's clear that the pundits and the old school cronies don't like him. It's clear that he isn't the usual "pander to the right then do nothing on social issues and concentrate on looting the government" type. He isn't going to play ball, so the the punditocracy is trying their best to poke holes in his campaign.
The question I have is, after the pundits have sunk Huckabee what will the social conservatives do? Will they stay with the rights chosen candidate like Guliani? Or finally realize that the republicans never represented them and splinter off? This election will be a defining moment for the party.
It will also be a litmus test for the media cabal on the right. Ninety percent of these pundits are the old school Heritage Foundation types. They talk a good game about social issues but are really just in it for the whites only croney system that they have learned to feed on. So will the social conservatives shut them down as well? Finally turn off Fox News and just listen to the old timey gospel hour on the AM?
I suppose door #2 is that the social conservatives back Guliani and thus concede that it was never about abortion but just the usual politics of racism.
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