Former governor Mike Huckabee is considering a run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. According to an article in The National Interest, he leads better known possibles in the early caucus state of Iowa.
I have no idea whether he (a) will run or (b) could win if he did run. What I know is that I watched him run in 2008 and thought, "this man is the best natural campaigner in the GOP."
Huck comes across as the opposite of a stuffed shirt, the opposite of an empty suit; in a word he is "real." Some of these platform skills may come from his background as an ordained Southern Baptist minister.
Unlike '08, Huckabee now has name and face recognition via his TV hosting work for Fox News and his radio talk show. He is popular with the social conservative, evangelical wing of the GOP, not so much with the party's libertarians and fiscal conservatives.
