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Going in to the whole primary/caucus process, I would have preferred Duncan Hunter or Fred Thompson. The reality is that neither look like viable candidates now.

Among the four remaining contenders (and it may really be two if McCain wins New Hampshire), Mike Huckabee is, by far, the best choice. Huckabee is the only social conservative left standing. He is the ONLY one that can be trusted to nominate judges to the judiciary. And, he has some very conservative ideas on how to reform the tax code and seems dedicated to building up the military.

It looks like whether Rich Lowry or Rush Limbaugh like or not, Nuckabee has a good chance to be the Republican nominee.

Just a couple of facts about Huckabee: "Huckabee said at the Univision Latino TV debate: “If you can get an American Express card in two weeks, it shouldn't take seven years to get a work permit to come to this country in order to work on a farm.” This in response to a question of “what to do with the 12 million of undocumented that already live in the United States?” Huckabee would apparently repeal the 3- and 10-year bars to illegals’ re-entry, for illegals who register during a 120-day period with Homeland Security and temporarily exit the country. They would “face no penalty if they later apply to immigrate or visit” the U.S. He also would reward these lawbreakers (and their law-breaking employers) by allowing the aliens to keep the very jobs they sneaked in and took. As governor, Mr. Huckabee opposed a bill to require proof of citizenship to register to vote. The bill would have also required state agencies to turn in illegals. Huckabee backed issuing drivers’ licenses to illegal aliens. In 2005, Mr. Huckabee was the keynote speaker at the League of United Latin American Citizens, or LULAC, convention in Little Rock. This ethnic grievance group supports mass amnesty for illegal aliens and special rights and benefits for Latinos. Mr. Huckabee told LULAC that “we should accommodate people” who want to come to America from Mexico and other countries, in apparent disregard for the harm caused American workers. He embraced forcing citizens and communities to “recogniz[e] and cheris[h] diversity ‘in culture, in language and in population,’” the Arkansas News Bureau reported. The news report called it an “impassioned speech” that “made it very clear where he stood on the [immigration] issue.” As governor, in his book From Hope to Higher Ground and now, Mr. Huckabee attacks the character of his opponents. He resorts easily to name-calling. This ad hominem tactic is the weapon of choice of Leftists and those in the open-borders movement. The Huckabee side of the immigration issue tries to demonize and vilify its opponents. They seek to shut down a fair and honest debate". http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=24142