The GOPs most electable candidate with a Willie Horton problem.  

I have said from the beginning that Huckabee is the only one the GOP will be able to stomach.  He DOES scare me, because he can fake populist (the way Bush faked compassion).  AND he's brighter than Bush.

...now it's open season."

I'm really concerned about Huckabee. At this point, he's the candidate who scares me the most. Romney, Giuliani, Thompson, and McCain are all dead in the water against any of our leading candidates. Huckabee may lose as well, but his achilles' heel isn't as evident to me. And beneath his charming, aw-shucks veneer is the Frankenstein apotheosis of all that Karl Rove has done to the Republican Party. He is the fundamentalist christian candidate.

I wish the liberal blogs would stop criticizing Giuliani in particular until after the republican primary. The more dirt we throw now, the more likely the republicans are to realize that he's a fatally flawed candidate and to go with one who's not. Better to save it all for the general election.

But as for Huckabee: tear him down now, then, whenever. Anyone would be better to face in the general election than him.

Hopefully letting a convicted rapist out of prison, to go rape and kill some more will upset the GOP base and they can all hammer HIM at the next debate.  I'd love Romney to be the nominee.  Romney still has sizable leads in New Hampshire.  He may be able to swallow a Huckabee Iowa win.  

We knew this was going to break into the MSM if Huckabee went anywhere. This and his having raised taxes and railing against corporate interests should hopefully be enough to bring him down.

I would encourage everyone to read the HuffingtonPost article that Jerome references above.  

After reading what happened here, I do not think Huckabee is a viable presidential candidate any longer.

To the evangelicals, ministers (and now NH NEA?) who are big cheerleaders for Huckabee, read this article and please tell me how you can continue to support this idiot.

I wrote a diary on this earlier with plenty of additional detail.  Take a look, these new revelations are really stunning.

The prisoner issue will only bother him in the primary contests. If he survives this 'smear of liberalism' to win the GOP nomination, it won't carry over to the general election. I write this because being "soft on crime" like so many other issues only works one way with our corporate media. If he is the GOP nominee and this issue comes up, Tweety and the gang will spend a week or more grilling the Democratic nominee on why they can't keep America safe from internal or external threats.