What’s Huckabee Up To?

Mike Huckabee certainly has every right to stay on the race, but why? Do the math and you see there aren’t enough delegates left to win to get him the nomination, so what does he stand to gain by staying in? It’s more that for the time at least, he has nothing to lose.

Huckabee isn’t bashing McCain or vice versa, so now with Romney gone, the former Arkansas governor continues to build up his political brand image. By his own admission, it’s probably unlikely McCain would choose him as a running mate, but the more states he wins, the higher his stock value goes as long as he doesn’t cross the line start to undermine the Republicans already limited chances of victory in the general election.

Right now, Huckabee is the lone remaining outlet for Republicans’ sense of buyer’s remorse at having wound up with McCain as the de facto nominee. Want to rub John McCain’s nose in how much he aggravates you because of immigration, stem cells, campaign finance or whatever, about the only thing you can do at the moment besides calling Rush Limbaugh is to vote Huckabee.

For now, Huckabee seems content to bask in the limelight. The worst thing that will happen is he’ll wind up with a seven figure deal doing his own talk show. If you had your choice between that and being Vice President, what would you want to do?