But if the evangelicals vote for him in droves like they did last time, he can change the overall outcome again. Hopefully they will actually look at his positions instead of just blindly supporting him because he’s a minister.
I think the efforts of many on the internet, with FR playing no small role, have educated many believing Christians as to the dangers of overweening governance.
A big government social conservative such as Huckabee will find himself practically relegated to retirees for supporters. This is in the Protestant realm of voters who predicate support upon sharing religious views on political and social matters.
Then, we have a similar phenomenon among Catholics (Newt appears to me to have been scheming to jump on that bandwagon for years, counting his amnesty chickens before they hatched, imho) and Mitt Romney with Mormons.
They’ll have been divided and scattered, hopefully leading to the fiscal and social conservative candidate with something of a western-tinged libertarian streak that we all know has worked successfully for conservatives working to regain the White House in the past.
One potential candidate in this mold would be Sarah Palin. Others would be ... ?