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Step forward 52-year-old Mike Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor and Baptist minister who was born in Hope, Arkansas (sound familiar?). A fiscal conservative [lol wut?] in the Reaganesque tradition [lol x 2], he likes to call himself (with some justification) "the conservative who is not mad at anybody". He says he is "not interested in being the candidate of Wall Street but of Main Street" and that it is simply "wrong" that CEOs "get paid 500 times what the average worker does" [no war but class war!].

In a field of flawed oddballs, above all, Huckabee emerges as a decent and likeable man. He is now quietly creeping ahead in the polls as the 2008 campaign's stealth candidate, and has probably already done enough to earn himself at least a shot at the vice-presidential nomination.

A ringing endorsement!