[inkling]

The same reason we “fear” any liberal.

[Jedidah]

The GOP establishment fears that, should Huckabee actually win the nomination, they will lose the White House.

Legitimate concern, IMHO.

[donnab]

I don’t fear Huck...I just don’t trust him.

[pogo101]

When did the headline writer stop beating his wife?

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

I simply can not tell you how much I am enjoying this. The GOP has been pandering to these stupid bastards for years, and every time I pointed it out I was called “anti-Christian” or something or other. Those of us who saw what the party was becoming were told to shut up, that it was good politics.
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Imagine a democrat writing this about blacks. The author makes an assumption that evangelicals support Huckabee. To be honest I have formed an opinion yet, but I will not for any politician that talks out of both sides of his mouth. A liar is the very worst thing.

[syriacus]

The MSM would love to see the evangelicals sit out this election.

The GOP will dump Slick Mickey
because he is a liberal triangulator
and the MSM will try to convince evangelicals that
Huckabee was dumped
because he is too religious.

[TheThirdRuffian]

Because Huck is the Second Coming of . . . . Jimmah Carter?!

[goldstategop]

Social conservatives are like the GOP's blacks. They're patted on the head, thrown a few crumbs and told to stay in their place if they know what's best for them. Lo and behold - they aren't obeying the rules and the GOP establishment is in a panic. They weren't bothered by Guiliani even though he's as liberal as Huckabee since he doesn't sound like a religious fanatic. They're okay with liberal Republicans who keep God and faith safely tucked away in the closet. That's why Huckabee bothers them so much. He keeps talking all that God stuff up.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[cripplecreek]

The GOP establishment loves him. We the people don't want anything to do with him.

[Sybeck1]

This Baptist will not vote for Huck. I don’t carry the White Guilt he does.

[Greg F]

Good article. The only type of candidate that can unite the party is a fiscal AND a social conservative. Money and attention shouldn’t go to anyone that doesn’t meet that criteria because they are a loser.

[DJ Taylor]

"Why does the GOP Establishment fear Huck?"

I don't know about the GOP, but I fear Huck because he's about the only one running for the GOP nomination who Hillary can easily trounce in the Presidential Election of 2008.

Watch as the Main Stream Media tries to convince the Republican Party that Huckabee is their best choice for President, and remember that no one should ever take advice from their enemies.

[org.whodat]

Don’t fear anyone, just know a con job when I see it. And know a liberal when I see and hear then as well.

[Badeye]

No ‘fear’ here. I just find him to be a typical Arkansas politician, and as such I can’t support him.

Personally, I don’t fear anything that walks.

[colorado tanker]

I'd certainly vote for Huck over any of the three Dems.

But the guy is a sure loser.

[jrooney]

Weak on foreign affairs, wrong on the handling of the WOT, taxes, never met a criminal he did not want to pardon, casts stones from a glass house, mean spiteful little man, etc...

[jdm]

It's funny, but when it looked like Rudy Giuliani, a social liberal, was going to be the nominee, we didn't see many, if any, establishment Republican opinion leaders freaking out over what kind of danger to the future of the party and the nation he represented.

Bull.

[Haddit]

How can you trust a man that says he will require Illegal Aliens go home and get in the back of the line to return to America? Then, on Fox News says that it shouldn’t take more than a couple of hours or days.

[Night Hides Not]

I like Rod, the token conservative on the editorial board of the Dallas Morning News. I've corresponded with him on many occasions, and I generally find him to be a reasonable sort.

However, be advised that he jumped off the bandwagon on Iraq about a year ago, and I haven't seen him say anything good about the surge. It's obvious that he's been beaten down by Bush Derangement Syndrome coming from the other staffers at the DMN.

Huckabee's 15 minute clock has about 7 minutes left. His hiring of Ed Rollins spoke even more volumes about his (lack of) viability.

I've been wrong before, but I think we're going to find out that Huck peaked about three weeks too early.

For the record, I am a Fredhead.

[palmer]

I really don't think it is because he is a Christian Evangelical who believes to the core of his person.

Actually that is the reason RINOs fear him. Most of them are atheists.