This recent Soren Dayton post on Mike Huckabee makes a salient point in light of Fred Thompson’s recent attacks on Huckabee’s tax record:
Of course, any successful politician “follows the breezes” to some degree. Because a politician’s job is to get 51 percent (or a winning plurality) of the people to like him (or her) at any given time. Huckabee’s decision to sign Grover Norquist’s anti-tax-hike pledge, coupled with his advocacy of the “fair tax,” probably will inoculate him from further attacks on the tax issue, primarily because, as Dayton suggests, Huckabee’s core voters aren’t concerned with supply-side economics anyway. Besides, maybe moralistic Christian-toned reformism is where most of the GOP is headed. Which would mean that the candidate who best represents that political tendency may have an extremely good shot at the Republican nomination.
