It sounds like a last ditch effort to try to stop Fred’s momentum. Huckabee doesn’t pass muster. He is AWFUL on illegals.
Although Wikipedia is skewed left, you get an idea of where he’s at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_huckabee
Pay close attention to the part on illegals.
Lastly, I wouldn’t recommend him because, like Romney, he left his state party in shambles. It’s in weaker shape now than before Clinton took office as Governor almost 30 years ago and has only 1 (!) officeholder above the legislature, the single Congressman John Boozman. You’d have to go back to 1964 to find it weaker, when it didn’t even exist as a party there. This at a time when every other Southern state has gone more and more Republican under differing kinds of leadership, starkly contrating with that of Haley Barbour in MS, one of our best and brightest stars, who has presided over a spectacular increase in party strength at the state and legislative levels.
the more I try to give all these other guys a chance, the more I appreciate Fred as a true conservative.