Surprisingly, Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee has declined to run for President on the GOP ticket in 2012.
This is the net setback for the race, for though Huckabee was a Baptist Shaman and a wingnut of impeccable pedigree he is also a master of a the soft sell.
Almost no one else in the race to date knows how to underplay anything successfully, it is becoming a lost art among Republican Presidential Aspirants, they either come off as ranters or else fumble it and bore the aud to tears.
Conceptually speaking, the GOP race for the White House breaks down into thirds, the ditherers (Romney, Pawlenty and Huntsman), the Falangists (Bachmann and Santorum) and the terminally weird (Gingrich).
In short the game is now afoot and I look forward to doing some comparatively rare field work up in New Hampshire.
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