I'm with Scott on the reasons Huckabee is the least-ideal candidate to go up against any of the Dems – relatively moderate on immigration, espousing economic ideas that seem almost populist, and gee, what a nice guy, at least according to the current line the press seems to be running with. And on Paul's original piece, I'd only beg to differ on Giuliani's ideal opponent. I think he'd be quite happy to have Hillary Clinton as an opponent, and Obama would be a much bigger concern for him. We tend to underestimate the Hillary hate on the right – and not only the far right. Chances are, a lot of them dislike her more than they dislike Giuliani's seemingly moderate stances on abortion and gays. Obama, on the other hand, is much more likely to pluck off some of the would-be Republican voters. As others have said before me, Clinton very much embodies every right-wing caricature of a powerful female (which I'm not saying is a bad thing, from my perspective at least), while Obama lives up to none of their stereotypes about black men in America. For a candidate as polarizing as Giuliani to win, he'd have to face an opponent the right sees as equally polarizing.
--Kate Sheppard
