This from the Washington Post this morning;

Atypical Evangelical

…the Huckster is doing a fine job of running for VP. He’ll soften his running make with this “aw shucks” Arkansas schtick. If he gets traction as the number 2 man, wonder how he’ll respond to Wayne? 

I am not now and never will be a Huckabee voter. There may not be a single major issue on which we agree, from stem cell research to Guantanamo detainees, from tax policy to immigration reform. This is, after all, a man who believes schools should teach creationism (alongside evolution) but not contraception. He has spoken of the need to “take this nation back for Christ” — though he says, “I’d probably phrase it a little differently today.”

But listening to Huckabee, I was struck by his interest in the bread-and-butter issues getting short shrift, especially from Republican candidates, in an Iraq-dominated campaign.

Not that you could tell from debates, when Huckabee tends to get so many God questions that, as he notes, you’d think he was running for Senate chaplain, not president.

“I’m happy to give my answer . . . but I’m thinking, you know, tonight, all over America, there were families sitting down to dinner, and I doubt that any of them . . . said, ‘I wonder what the next president will think about evolution,’ ” said Huckabee.

“Here is what I think they talked about: How are we going to afford gasoline at $3-plus a gallon? What is going to happen if our kid breaks his arm in the playground at school? Can we pay for the doctor bills and also pay the rent at the first of the month? Will we be able to save enough money for our kids to go to college, and if they do, are we going to be so in debt that it will take every dime of our life savings to get them a higher education? Families are wondering, if Dad loses his job this Friday and gets the pink slip, and his job goes to China, and he is 50-plus years old, where is he going to go to work?”