Hunter could EASILY be where Huckabee is right now, if he only had the charisma to sway people to vote for him. He doesn’t. I think you guys know he doesn’t, which is why you all constantly try to browbeat everyone else into supporting him. It doesn’t work that way.
***There’s an interesting word, Charisma. Apparently it is worth a bunch in politics because Rudy apparently has it and Huckabee seems to have enough of it to have conservatives overlook their liberal views on certain items. I cannot quantify Charisma, but we may soon know what its value is, if what you say is true. Oh, and I disagree with your contention that the media loves underdogs. The fact that the media hates true conservatives trumps that underdog thing.
You need charisma AND the record to back it up. Rudy doesn’t have both, Romney doesn’t have both, Huckabee doesn’t have both. They’re all missing the record. (Actually, I think Romney is missing both charisma AND a record and Rudy’s charisma is questionable at best.)
Whether you have charisma and a crappy record or a great record and no charisma, you’re still missing 50% of what you need to close the deal.
Think what you want about underdogs, but the media doesn’t pay attention to Hunter because he gives them no reason to.