The Huckabee... Surge?

No one can deny there is something very odd about Mike Huckabee's sudden surge in the polls and his new found media attention. Over just two weeks his poll numbers have quadrupled now putting him at over 20% in some polls ahead of rivals Mitt Romney and even former "front runner" Rudy Giuliani.

The first thing we should look at is who these polls really represent. Who are these "likely GOP voters"? Well, that would be people who voted in the 2000 primaries. This is important because, we know that the GOP elected George Bush as their nominee, so the people voting in these polls are very likely to vote for someone like George Bush.

Huckabee is pretty much a newer, more christian version of Bush. A conservative on the outside, but a hardcore Neo-con at the core. He may talk tough on taxes, spending and moral issues, but his record doesn't support his wild claims. He likes to brag about wanting to end the IRS, but not to eliminate the tax, he just wants to replace it with the Fair Tax. Taxes are taxes.
Huckabee also claims to be a fiscal conservative, yet he supports the Neo-con foreign policy which is bankrupting our country and jeopardizing the future of programs we actually need to keep.
Then he preaches about moral issues. He has a strong pro-life stance. Well, kind of. During one debate he boasted having more people on death row in his state than any other governor before him, while at the same time, he pardoned more people than both of his predecessors combined two times over. The list includes, Keith Richards, and the less notorious Wayne Dumond, convicted rapist. Dumond, after being released went on to rape and murder again.

In spite of all this, it doesn't seem like Bush supporter's care much for what Bush does, so much as what he says. And since these are the same people represented in these polls. It doesn't see that crazy that Mike Huckabee could be leading.