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However, we are stuck with Huckabee because the other top tier candidates are either pro-abortion, or people don’t necessarily trust them on the issue.

Then the Republicans are stuck with defeat.

people need to get on the Fred Thompson bandwagon, because he makes the social and fiscal conservatives happy

If that were true, then he would be leading. He isn't, because the practical Republicans don't think he can win in November either.

The nomination process should, first and foremost, nominate someone who can win. No Republican president can stray far from the base on strong party issues. Note how Bush got slappped down on immigration, even though he ran on "comprehensive immigration reform" in 2000.

In practical terms, not a single Republican candidate running will damage efforts to halt abortion, because that work must be done at the grass roots anyway. What a Republican candidate thinks on the issue won't matter.

However, a Democrat will have to please an entirely different base, will nominate judges from an entirely different pool, and will bring in an entirely different set of political appointees.

Party is far more important than a candidates particular opinions, and the Republican party is anti-abortion. Electing a Republican, any of them, will help the anti-abortion cause. Electing a Democrat will hurt it. Winning in November is more important than a particular candidates positions on issues.

I agree, and assume that it is RG and MR being dismissed as viable for the VV, strange since RG has campaigned for prolife Republicans since 98, (right here in my state), he obviously is not campaigning to destroy the Republican platform, and has never even intimated such.

Romney too has no expressed no desires, ideologies or activism on the changing the platform. Why would they want to?

UNLIKE Huck who has CAMPAIGNED and VOWED to change the Republican party to a liberally economic party.

"If that were true, then he would be leading. He isn’t, because the practical Republicans don’t think he can win in November either."

No. The truth is that the pro-aborts want to throw the pro-life agenda off of the train, and expect us pro-lifers to stay on and shovel coal. It ain’t gonna happen.

Also, bear in mind that there are five or six candidates running for the GOP nomination. It's not over by a longshot.

For the most part, this Huckabee thing is a lot of statistical noise. It will disapear when the evangelicals get the news that there are a few other pro-life candidates.