Reagan From Heaven To Huckabee: Go To Hell

Mike Huckabee is the best communicator the GOP has had since Ronald Reagan and is, frankly, a more skilled orator than Reagan. I give Huckabee great credit for winning in Iowa, for coming out of nowhere (also known as Hope, Arkansas) and for doing it without any money against the heavily self-financed Mitt Romney. I also give Huckabee credit for reminding the foolish conservative instinct that McCain is pro-amnesty by reminding us that the last person that gave us amnesty was the in-death-made-perfect Ronald Reagan.

McCain gets a lot of flack for supposedly favoring amnesty by way of the failed McCain-Kennedy bill he sponsored. McCain understands that presidents, and certainly not presidential candidates DO NOT make laws. Congress makes laws. In order for laws to pass they have to pass the Senate and the House. With such closely divided houses, an immigration bill has to virtually satisfy everyone from Ted Kennedy to Orrin Hatch.

The GOP portion of the ABC St. Ambrose College debate Saturday night was great. Everyone put Romney on defense and he was clearly unnerved by the pressure. He is a loser. The ProConPundit is hoping for a decisive enough New Hampshire victory for McCain over Romney that he can be ridden from the lineup ASAP. Huckabee may do well in South Carolina but his views, i.e., anti-evolution, hatred of gays, belief that the best way to be safe in a metropolitan city is to have a handgun, are whacked. If we can get rid of Romney, the race should, ultimately be a face off between McCain and Giuliani.

A McCain vs. Obama general election promises to be the quintessential experience vs. change election and the American people would be all the better for such a race.
ProConPundit choices for running mates? For Obama: Biden or Bayh. For McCain: Lindsay Graham or Joe Lieberman.