Huck In Second--How Long?

Fred commented on the recent polling numbers reporting Huck in second in Iowa. Fred downplayed the polls at this point of the game saying: “I wonder who will lead it next week and the week after that and the week after that.” Basically don't put your finger to the wind to figure out how things are going today, let's wait for the end. But he also indicated that there may be winds that may blow against Huck in the near future:

“Well he is, he’s kind of new to the first tier I guess you might say, and so they probably don’t know him as well as they know some of the rest of us,” Thompson said. “But that’s a situation that will be cured shortly. That’s the reward you get for doing well in a poll. You start getting attention, and I’m sure that’ll happen with regard to him as it’s happened to all of us.”

And also today is an article in The Politico detailing ethics questions that came up in his time as Governor of Arkansas (14 in all, though several are either wrong or frivolous).

An ordained Southern Baptist minister known for his charm, Huckabee rose swiftly through Arkansas politics, culminating with his decade-long stint as governor.

But his career has also been colored by 14 ethics complaints and a volley of questions about his integrity, ranging from his management of campaign cash to his use of a nonprofit organization to subsidize his income to his destruction of state computer files on his way out of the governor’s office.

Some of the ethics complaints deal with fairly penny ante stuff, and most were dismissed.

They did, however, yield five admonitions and $1,000 in fines from Arkansas' Ethics Commission and, perhaps more significantly, a pattern that strategists for two competing GOP campaigns privately predict could become fodder for attacks playing on the culture-of-corruption theme Democrats used to pound Republicans in the 2006 midterm elections.

I have detailed a lot of why I am not fond of Huck, but one of the main reasons that the Republicans lost the mid-term elections was because of ethics issues. Bringing someone along that is already starting with these liabilities would be a bad choice for the Republicans. It also would mute the ability to hit Hillary with her ethics (fund raising) issues.