What will a longer-and-longer long-shot candidate for his party's presidential nomination do to pander to enough conservative voters to keep himself in the game (at least in his own tiny mind)? Mike Huckabee is supporting a Colorado constitutional amendment to declare that fertilized eggs are human beings . “This proposed constitutional amendment will define a person as a human being from the moment life begins at conception,” Huckabee said in a statement backing the Colorado Human Life Amendment. “With this amendment, Colorado has an opportunity to send a clear message that every human life has value. “Passing this amendment will mean the people of Colorado will protect the sanctity of life from conception until natural death occurs.” Among other things, this amendment would effectively make in-vitro fertilization illegal in Colorado. The way that IVF generally works is that a woman undergoes a cycle on fertility drugs and produces between 8-15 eggs. The clinic takes sperm from ...

Over on First State Politics , Dave speculates that if Mike Huckabee picks off a few Southern states while Mitt does well in the northeast, John McCain's momentum might suffer a setback. From Strange Maps , here's some support for that reasoning: a map of the "Leading Church Bodies" by county throughout the United States. Red equals Baptist. Click the map below for a larger image, and you tell me: see a pattern?

If you're not reading Just a Girl in Short Shorts Talking About Whatever on a daily basis like I told you to do, it's your loss. Today's Rocking with Huckabee takes a devastating look at why Mike is the perfect candidate for the new and not-so-adorable Republican Party. In the process, she reminds Republicans of their roots before the social conservatives and neo-con foreign policy interventionists took over. And, being Becky, it's all good, razor-sharp fun: Mike Huckabee is a conservative populist—kind of a happy version of Pat Buchanan. But unlike Pat, the Huck is a big government conservative. And he is honest about it. Huckabee's crunchy conservatism is a lot more appealing to Americans than the nasty populism of the no-more-sunny John Edwards. And all Hillary can do is trot out her aging husband, and try to invoke old memories of pre-9-11 prosperity. And we are comfortable that the preacher will have the federal government overseeing the moral state of the c...