Thanks to the diligent efforts of my friend Stacy over at Active Christian Media, I've just about settled on Mike Huckabee as my candidate of choice. I like everything I've heard and read about him so far -- I think I'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop, as it were, the skeleton just about to come out <one thousand times bitten, one thousand and one times shy>. That, and the fact that I'm appalled to have to choose a candidate so stinking early!

That said, I've spent a couple hours over the past few weeks reading up on Mr. Huckabee and watching different speeches he's made. Last night I watched his interview with Charlie Rose on PBS and found myself a little bit tickled that Mr. 2nd-Tier GOP Candidate <according to the MSM> was the first in Rose's candidate series. 

Two things I enjoyed: his anecdote about how it's not much different going from Baptist Church politics into national politics -- because you can't find a more politically charged environment than a Baptist Church. I'm sure that's an old joke, but it was the first time I heard it and I laughed.

Second, I appreciated what he had to say about candidates who have no idea how a normal person lives. He got through college in just over two years because he couldn't afford to dilly dally, pastored for a number of years, sent his kids to public school, lost 100 pounds after being diagnosed with diabetes -- all fairly normal pursuits.  

Shoot, I know I said two things, but now that I think of it there was one more that nearly caused me to stand up and cheer even though it was midnight and the folks were asleep -- he advocates the fair tax. He actually said the words "I'd abolish the IRS." Poor Charlie Rose looked apoplectic.