John Podhoretz writes that Huckabee swallows campaigns whole:
Huckabee's path is evident - with surprising victories in early states, he steamrolls faltering campaigns and pushes them aside until he is the only guy left standing. This is precisely the Mitt Romney strategy, only instead of being manufactured at great expense with a campaign machine as Romney's was, Huckabee's path is being cleared for him not by money and media but but by an honest-to-God (or, perhaps, given Huckabee's own sentiments about the role of Christ in his campaign, honest-to-Jesus) groundswell. So the Romney strategy is working, but it may not be working for Romney, in Iowa, at least.
Huckabee now leads in the daily Rasmussen tracking poll of likely Republican primary voters nationwide. Lately I've been put in mind of this story from December, 2003. When this piece was published, the Dean juggernaut was in full swing - the cover of that issue's WEEKLY STANDARD was of Dean on a tractor about to run over Gephardt. We know what happened once actual people started actually to vote. A similar fate may await Huckabee. Unless, of course, it does not.