I made a mistake Huckabee is currently immune to wing-nut criticism for another reason, he is in the center of the efforts to stop health care mandates, so if the wing nuts start smearing him, the rest of the anti-health-care activists would get upset. If in the future if he is not in the center of a conservative effort, he would be smeared like McCain is for speaking out for reasonable debate.

By the way, Hukabee is the only Republican candidate who would come close if the next election was heald tomorrow, despite all the screams for and against Sarah Palin,
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/09/24/looking-at-obama-gop-match-ups-for-2012/

The right seems to like to smear the most, but many issue organizations seem to tailor their campaigns around what brings in donations. Campaigning against Glenn Beck won't bring in a lot of money but campaigning against Palin will.

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