[Soliton]

Does John Stemberger, the president of the Florida Family Policy Council and chairman of the Florida4Marriage amendment, know when to leave a sinking ship? Stemberger hopped the Fred Thompson bandwagon Monday to join the Mike Huckabee campaign and co-chair its "Faith and Family Values Coalition."

According to a poll released Monday by Quinnipiac University, Thompson trails behind McCain, Giuliani, Huckabee and Romney who have a statistical four-way tie. While the leaders carried between 22 percent to 19 percent of the likely Republican vote, the former Tennessee senator is garnering only 7 percent of the likely vote.

Stemberger, who also got a bit of bad news from the Division of Elections today on his attempt to ban gay marriage, said in a statement that Huckabee "is without question the best candidate to breathe new life and fresh hope into a nation and its people.''

[The Pack Knight]

Stemberger’s going to feel awfully stupid once Huckabee gets trounced in South Carolina and is in single digits going into the Florida primary.

[WillRain]

Or maybe this guy figures that Huckabee will bring the right kind of voters to the polls to pass his marriage amendment in Florida so he sells out the national priority for the local one.