The people you fraternize with are probably too informed to support a man like Huckabee. The more people learn about him, the more they dislike him.
This is the EXACT same thing we have said here about Giuliani all along--and it IS happening. The same thing may happen to Huckabee--we'll soon see.
If it does, Fred then becomes the logical 'consensus conservative--to unite the Party and energize the base (BOTH of which will be necessary to win next year).