The Three Man Race…

What incredible news! Without the help of 90% name recognition, nearly 50 million dollars, or a political elite willing to take a risk on him, Governor Mike Huckabee has surged into third place nationally, 2nd place in Iowa, and into double digits in New Hampshire. He keeps outperforming expectations, while other candidates keep under performing and moving backward. If this isn’t proof of the candidate’s potential in the general election, then nothing is. We really do have the ability to win with a Reagan landslide here, but we seem to want to do everything we can to lose…

It’s seriously time for conservatives to bolt from Fred Thompson’s campaign now. This is classic Wesley Clark. If you bought the story that Mike Huckabee can’t win the primary, then it has to be crystal clear now that Thompson is in even worse shape than him.

The choice for President, in my view, is now among Giuliani (Robertson), Romney (weyrich), and Huckabee (grassroots). After Iowa and New Hampshire this will become more clear. If Huckabee manages a victory in Iowa (where he is currently polling 2nd), this could end up being a Huckabee-Giuliani matchup afterwards (because that has the potential to cripple Romney), something I know many of us have hoped from for over a year now.

This is from today’s St. Petersburg Times…

“Among Republican voters, former Tennessee Sen. and Law & Order star Fred Thompson is proving to be nowhere near the force many had expected when he entered the race in September. The poll showed him in fifth place with 8 percent support, behind former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, with 9 percent, McCain with 12 percent, Mitt Romney with 19 percent and Giuliani with 36 percent in the state he declares a must-win.”