I don't understand why everyone is so surprised by the former two-time Governor of Arkansas’ surge in the polls. Huckabee, in his former fat self, looked like the Republican he honestly is: more Boss Hogs than Gomer Pyle style. But he never showed his true self and with his "aw-shucks" dimpled grin he has for years fooled the voters. Even Time Magazine once called Hee Haw Huckabee one of the five best governors in America.

The wrong man from Hope, the former Southern Baptist preacher graduated magna cum laude from some Baptist University I can neither say nor spell, went on to seminary, became a staffer for a televangelist and preached the word as pastor of many Southern Baptist Churches, the best UN-proving ground in America if one aspires to ascend to the presidency of the United States.

But that does make Huckabee the perfect candidate for the right-wrong-Christian conservatives - the base of the Republican Christian Conservative Party -, who are all religious talk and un-American action. These days the Republican Party seems more focused on electing a Preacher-in-Chief, rather than a Commander-in-Chief.

Huckabee is one helluva Christian. He says things like: Let’s isolate AIDS patients; homosexuality is “abhorrent” and “sinful;" AIDS Research is receiving an unfair amount of federal money; suggests celebrities should pay for AIDS research. He also advocates quarantining AIDS patients and when pressed on his statements, categorically refuses to renounce his words.

Like his fellow Christian Conservative colleague, George “Tush” Bush, who having governed that vast foreign land called Texas where he acquired all his great foreign policy experience that got us into Iraq, Governor Huckabee of Arkansas is well-schooled for the job of president of the free world.

By the way, he proved just how educated he is on the subject of foreign policy the other day astounding the news media when he was asked to comment on the intelligence report on Iran that had been dominating the news for two days. He greeted the journalists, Howdy! then stared at them blankly, having no idea what they were talking about.

Also dogging Huckabee like that sleepy-eyed basset hound named Flash, is the Wayne Dumond case, the story of the then Governor’s decision to commute the sentence of the convicted rapist, more to settle a political score with his enemy former Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton then to right a penal-is wrong. Following his release, Dumond went on to rape and murder two more victims.