The Future of the Republican Party

So it turns out that Gov. Mark Sanford was more than quirky. Not much more to say about the guy.

Which returns us to the subject of who benefits from Sanford’s 2012 chances taking a hike. Anyone notice how overboard Mike Huckabee is going these days? Watch this guy closely, he is pretty set on mowing down anyone in his path on the Road to Des Moines.

I noted last month that Huckabee was especially critical of the three Republicans who attempted to break out of the desperate cycle of Republican destruction and actually connect with Americans beyond their base again. Remember the National Council for a New America? At the debut event in Virginia Jeb Bush said it was time for the party to move on from the past, implying that even Ronald Reagan nostalgia was no longer helping the party. Huckabee blast Bush, releasing the following statement: “I am very disappointed that one of the initial comments from the group was that we need to ‘get past Reagan.’ Frankly the party was in pretty good shape then and can be again, but Ronald Reagan didn’t summarily dismiss Values Voters like this new group of ‘experts’ has by not listing any of the issues that still matter to many of these common Americans this group wants to listen to.”

Then, there were Huckabee’s recent comments about the passage of Proposition 8, the measure banning gay marriage in California, being a “miracle,” and the “result of prayer.”

My friend David Brody, White House correspondent at the Christian Broadcasting Network, actually called Huckabee’s new state “unplugged,” and you can read his full statements he made here

http://blogs.cbn.com/thebrodyfile/archive/2009/06/23/huckabee-the-blood-of-50-million-unborn-babies-cries-out.aspx

at an event in Louisville, Kentucky last weekend where he addressed Southern Baptist pastors and declared that ..”.the blood of 50 million unborn babies cries out since 1973, because we have decided that the convenience and satisfaction of the biological mother is more valuable than the intrinsic worth and value of each innocent human life.”

Now Huckabee has decided not only to back Florida Gov. Charlie Crist’s more conservative challenger in the GOP primary, former state House Speaker Marco Rubio, but also to blast the establishment for backing Crist who is strongly favored to win both the primary and general elections for the U.S. Senate seat to replace retiring Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.).

Huckabee told our Aaron Blake in an interview with The Hill that he was “disgusted” with the decision by the National Republican Senatorial Committee and said “I thought that their endorsement was not only premature, but was outrageous.”

Think the conservatives have taken notice? I bet Mitt Romney has.