So do I. I like Huckabee and wish he were at the top of the GOP ticket because I think it would have made for a far different kind of campaign, one good for the nation, not because I'd ever consider voting for him. Huckabee and I share wildly different ideas on several topics, but I could say that about some relatives I hold dear and a couple of friends, as well. Whoever thought Dreyfus might have been drunk must have been in an altered state of consciousness. I didn't see that at all.
I will definitely tune in to future airings; he's a good interviewer. I didn't realize his FNC gig was a regular thing. That said, Huckabee wasn't exactly a saint, though, during the primaries: 1. He was the first candidate to turn Romney's religion into an issue: 2. He called a press conference to declare that he was a candidate of principle, by refusing to air a dirty attack ad his campaign had prepared for him, attacking Romney. He then showed the ad on the tv monitors for the assembled media, to prove how dirty it was. By this point in the race, he couldn't afford to buy much actual tv time, so instead he got gullible media to replay the ad for two days for free while at the same time praising him as an honest guy. Washingotn Post 3. He resorted to sub rosa push-polling against his opponents, disguising dirty tricks under the guise of actual telephone polls so that the listeners would stay on the line, a cheap robocall tactic with plausible deniability so that he could maintain the Huckster image. He reminds me now, in terms of reputation, of John McCain 2000-2006, filling the media-friendly, amiable loser role. It might be working, though. Huckabee seems decently positioned for the 2012 Republican nomination, especially if he can make his FNC gig a hit: Newsweek via TPM
