Governor Mike Huckabee was on Meet the Press today. He did a good job but seemed a little rehearsed as opposed to an authentic guy. He barely laughed when Tim Russert showed footage of Huckabee playing at the Governors Association Meeting and then launched into a speech about how he thought it was wrong that we have cut funding for arts and music in schools (which I am not even sure is accurate). In general, I didn’t notice a single proposal to cut any program.

It seemed all the problems that libertarians have with the President: that he is too big a spender and too focused on social issues is magnified with Huckabee. Yet while Bush is a graduate of Yale and Harvard Business School and as a former businessman himself he can appeal to a wide range of voters, Huckabee’s support will be considerably more limited. He is a graduate of Ouachita Baptist University and his past work experience is as a preacher.

He can be a spoiler but not the nominee. Republicans should be encouraging him to make another Senate run not a run for President.