Mike the Rebel

Here's a link to an interesting Washington Post editorial about Mike Huckabee. In the editorial titled Mike the Rebel Op Ed columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. offers some reasoning behind why Republican elites do not support the presidential hopeful who is gaining popularity. Many reasons sited are the very reasons why Huckabee is my favorite candidate. I have included two Huckabee quotes that I really like and a brief excerpt from the column.

"If it was all about the money," Huckabee said recently, "then we might as well put the presidency up on eBay."
"The president ought to be a servant of the people and ought not to be elected to the ruling class."

A few excerpts from Dionne's OP Ed piece.

The rise of Mike Huckabee has put the fear of God into the Republican establishment. Its alarm has nothing to do with the Almighty.

The Huckabee surge represents a break with what has been standard operating procedure within the GOP for more than a generation. Huckabee's evangelical Christian army in Iowa ignored the importuning of entrenched leaders of the religious right and decided to go with one of their own.

Huckabee himself preaches a gospel of populism that rejects conservative orthodoxy on trade, the value of government and the beneficence of Wall Street.

The former Arkansas governor has exposed a fault line within the Republican coalition. The old religious right is dying because it subordinated the views of its followers to short-term political calculations. The white evangelical electorate is tired of taking orders from politicians who care more about protecting the wealthy than ending abortion, more about deregulation than family values.