John Brummet, of the Arksansas News Bureau, who has covered the rise of at least one Arkansan, has a little bit of insight of that candidate from Hope and their former First Lady:
So I tell them that this same Huckabee has a history of ethical shortcomings, taking outside money for speeches from anonymous benefactors and accepting numerous and expensive gifts while in office. I tell them that this same Huckabee was given as governor to lofty rhetoric but not the essential hard work of policy detail. I relate that this same Huckabee can be petulant, huffy and irresponsibly hyperbolic against critics.
They're telling me that Huckabee is by far the best speaker in the field, the most likable, the best campaigner and a candidate with an intriguing philosophical dexterity that positions him to appeal simultaneously to the evangelical right and the center.
Nobody asks about Hillary Clinton, first lady of our little state for a dozen years. That's because everybody saw her first-hand for eight years as first lady of the nation. So I needn't tell anyone about her eerie discipline, her lack of warmth as a campaigner and her hostility to critics. But most Democrats seem to have sized her up against Barack Obama and John Edwards and concluded she's the best the party has to offer.
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