This is interesting... at least potentially: Mike Huckabee is planning something! Something that's apparently significant enough to get the Huckamaniacs counting down the minutes and hours and seconds until it happens!
Please roll your eyes to yourself and indulge me as I engage in some totally-uninformed, easily-ridiculed, and wildly-irresponsible speculation.
What if this announcement (which is scheduled for April 15 and may therefore be nothing more than "I finished my taxes on time... and saved a lot of money on my car insurance by switching to a tricycle! ching! ching!" ) is going to be something along the lines of... "Mike Huckabee is re-entering the race as an independent candidate!"
Dare we even hope a hope that's so... well, audacious?
There are still a lot of Huckamaniacs out there who can't stand Democrats but just can't get enthusiastic about McCain because McCain believes so many crazy things, like "The earth is over 6,000 years old" and "Dinosaurs aren't actually Jesus-horses" and " 'Makeup-plastered trollop' and 'cunt' are nice pet names for your wife." (You know that's bound to go over well with the family-values voters!) I think there'd be enough of them who'd swing over to Huckabee to nade* the Democratic candidate of your choice (or, if you're a Hillary supporter, Obama) easily into the White House.
I can see Huckabee doing this, really. The guy loves him some attention! And that run for president was his big moment in the sun... I don't think he'll let it go so easily. He will not go gently into that good ignomy. He hung on in the primaries for quite a while after it didn't make any sense to stay in the race... and ya gotta admire that, right? And his concession speech is going to be turned into a series of Time-Life books, I think.
So, I think the idea of him going independent so he can continue his run is... well, crazy. But not eating-bugs, playing-with-poo-poo crazy, so, let's entertain it!
And, as Republicans go, I like Huckabee. He seems like a nice fella, he's got a great sense of humor, he's done some decent and honorable things. Given some of his crazy beliefs and his record on handling economies and law enforcement, I'd never want the guy in the White House in a million years, but but he's not such a horrible guy. I think he deserves some happiness. So, I'd be glad to see him continue his quest as an independent, because I know it'd bring him such joy.
And also because it'd stick a big ol' two-by-four crooked-like up ol' Johnny McCain's wahzoo, but... mainly because it would bring Mike such joy.
Okay, maybe not mainly, but, still, it's a factor!
Soooo... whatcha gonna do, Republicans, when Huckamania runs wild on you?!?
I know that I'm somewhat of an idiot, so I'm fully prepared for a huuuuuge anticlimax six days from now, but in the meantime, keep watching that space! Dream the implausible dream!
* "Nade"™ is a word I came up with that means "cause enough of a distraction to shift advantage to the candidate that least supports your own goal", from the Anglo-Saxon "Nader," meaning "one who nades."