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You mean, Huckabee, the huge fiscal lib, who made a zillion dubious pardons and who was tag teaming with McCain against Romney... That's how nearly all freepers at the time characterized the huckster. He was, if anything, less liked than McCain. He certainly wasn't considered a viable alternative.

I dont know much about huckabee, but I thought he was a preacher before he was governor, and was considered the christian candidate back then, which I would have thought made him Santorum's favorite.

this is really only my first presidential election, and i worked some in the 2010 midterms. So I don't really have any opinion on 2008 - just that it seemed to me - erroneously I see - that huckabee would have been the choice of christians catholics and evangelicals. But guess I was wrong. I am surprised, though, that romney was. And I wonder what was different back then..

Huck was a preacher and promoted himself as 'the christian candidate' at the time. He also tried to attract the anti-Mormon vote, of which there at least appeared to be some here. He had some success with voting blocks that didn't look past his charm and religiosity. Most Freepers dug deeper into his record and didn't like what they found, as I described.

I hadn't considered that Rick didn't choose the "christian candidate" in '08, but that does offer some evidence against those here who want to accuse him of being a Catholic zealot who'll do things beyond the law in service to his faith. I don't see that in his record anymore than I saw it in Sarah's. Both have obeyed the law, at least until they could change it through the normal legislative and legal systems, when it conflicted with their faith. Rick would use the bully pulpit very differently than Obama, but unlike Obama he'd follow the law.