Here is one point I don’t get about American politics.
In Canada, if somebody runs for the leader of a party and does surprisingly well and he wins his seat, he’s considered a force to be reckoned with and will often be given a cabinet position or party whip or something beyond just being an MP.
Last time round, Goober pulled enough supporters away that he ensured a Romney win, but I did not hear anything about a book tour or an appointment or anything that indicated he benefitted from running interference of conservative candidates.
So, why when he knows he cannot win, would he run?
Do they have bribes and hush money in Canada? He was building a mansion on the Florida coast. Does that sound like someone who would quit a seven-figure job to run a Quixotic campaign for an office he must know is out of his reach?
possibly because he’s an egomaniac. Possibly because he’s part of a larger strategy to force another RINO through the conservative dominated primary election. A RINO that, by all rights, should not have a snowball’s chance in hell of surviving the primary elections. Possibly a bit of both.
Huckabee's job, in this cycle, is to drain evangelical votes from Ted Cruz in the early primary states -- Iowa and South Carolina, in particular.
He will be paid handsomely for his efforts by the GOP establishment -- which fears Cruz.