Mike Huckabee just wrapped his address at CPAC. One that was his normal folksy self. But the implications of his ideas were a sharply annotated brilliant division from the now $4,850,000,000,000 spending of the Obama administration. Sure it was some red meat for the packed-house at CPAC, but it was still significant.

One of my facebook friends then took me to task on the page over Huck's conservative credentials and his ability to do what no one expects him to do.

This was my crux of the argument that I served up to my friend. This particular friend being a huge supporter of Hugh Hewitt and of Townhall.com.

Huck has done nothing but continue to build his brand and platform since the election... He has STRENGTHENED his very close roots to evangelicals... He's explaining the challenges of issues every week on Fox News (brilliant move.) And he's writing books on his views on the issues and the future.

He's willing to break it down to the terms of every day man and woman sort of language. AND he has the strongest standing of any prominent GOP personalities with church going Black and Hispanic voters...

He is going to be a FORMIDABLE force in the election.

And I was the first pundit in America to predict that Obama would be President - calling it in December of 2006. (Ask Hugh about my history on Obama and predictions. I was the one who first introduced Hugh to Obama.)

Huck still needs some refining...

But he is working harder, right now, at the moment, in the most holistic way possible to gain a very tight relationship with the base. (Which was a HUGE deficit for McCain until Palin!)

It sounds arrogant but it's not intended to be. I WAS right on Obama. I didn't WANT to be.

I'm not settled on whether he wins the nomination at this moment. But I'm telling you he's doing everything EXACTLY right to win it.

And he's working harder than any of the other also rans to impact the mood, reach, and feedback of the nation...

Even if you hated him... you have to give him kudos for laying the groundwork, and earning his keep!

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10:00pm - I've ordered the closing of Gitmo (um... at a time and place when I choose to do so - which could take a long time, because I have no plans to close it at all in the immediate future - because I have no idea whatsoever about what to do with the caged animals we have housed down there... "Have you seen those guys?")

9:57pm - I am going to end this war - and I WILL DO SO BY ADOPTING ALMOST ALL OF PRESIDENT BUSH'S STRATEGIES TO DATE.

9:56pm - Hide the price of the war? Anyone confused on this one... The cost to me as been seemingly WELL DOCUMENTED.

9:54pm - If you're family makes $250,000 not one cent in higher taxes... 2.24.09 9:56pm EST (mark it down for when he breaks this promise...)

9:53pm - We will screw farmers and cut back on defense spending...

9:52pm - OUTRIGHT LIE - passed a stimulus that had no earmarks? (BALONEY!!!!!!)

9:52pm - Swipe number 72 at the previous administration...

9:51pm - If you don't want to pass on a debt to the children that they can not pay - then stop passing bill after bill that enslaves them to greater and greater debt...

9:51pm - Responsibility for our children's education MUST BEGIN at home... (Even I am applauding that one...)

9:49pm - Volunteer and get "free" education... Obama asks for Hatch/Kennedy to be passed...

9:48pm - Dropping out of high school isn't just quitting on yourself, it's quitting on your country... (ALMOST like a Kennedy - a good one anyway...) Highest percentage of college graduates - a worthy goal!

9:48pm - We will expand commitment to charter schools (DEMOCRATS didn't CLAP!!!!)

9:47pm - We have made the progress to give the TEACHER'S UNIONS even MORE POWER in the next eight years...

9:46pm - We have one of the highest drop out rates because of our Teacher's Unions and tenures...

9:45pm - Bringing people together to work on these things and to tell them "I won so :-p 'zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!"

9:44pm - The Obama budget will CURE CANCER "in his time" (in the next four years...) MESSIAH has spoken...

9:43pm - Swipe 4 at the previous administration...

9:42pm - Health care causes a bankruptcy every 30 seconds? (Does anyone every fact check Obama? Does anyone every even bother to see if he's just making this stuff up?)

9:41pm - Did he just advocate clean coal???? (KMC faints...)

9:39pm - CLIMATE CHANGE!!!!!!!!!! Market based cap on carbon (read that - our way to randomly punish businesses we don't like...)

9:38pm - Hey here's an even better goal - how about policies that lead to the largest UPPER class ever in history?

9:37pm - Me thinks he just said FDR led to the largest middle class in history? IS HE NUTS? FDR extended the great depression at least ten years longer than was necessary...

9:35pm - The only way to cure the economy is RAISE TAXES... RAISE TAXES and go GREEN and rainbows will fly...

9:34pm - YAY more government regulations, giving partisan hacks jobs, and ruining the hope of "We The People"

9:33pm - Credit will solve all our problems... S L O W  L   Y  but surely confidence will return...

9:32pm - "Yield to the politics of the moment?" (Like funding ACORN, STD's, and PLANNED PARENTHOOD... Water Parks in Florida....

9:31pm - The cost will be greater still... even more... yay... yippee... so much fun to think how much more it could cost...

9:31pm - THOSE DAYS ARE OVER... now its the group from ACORN who get to pad their paycheck, and redo the drapes...

9:30pm - HA - 12 minutes in and swipe number two at the previous administration...

9:28pm - "RESPONSIBLE FAMILIES" - like those who have defaulted on their mortgage payments for 90 days or longer... (hmmm if I didn't pay MY mortgage for 90 more days maybe I could qualify...)

9:27pm - Break this destructive cycle - by putting more dept on to a nation that is already drowned in it... Throw in a little inflation and boy you got a horrible future currency...

9:26pm - No real recovery without cleaning up the credit crisis... GREAT glad to know that the stimulus just put each of us in dept to the tune of $4290 per person in the entire nation... Meaning that the average family of 4 is $17,000 more dollars in dept than they were before the stimulus was passed... Thank you sir, may I have another please...

9:25pm - Nobody messes with Joe... except when Joe messes with Joe, because we all "know" that half the time no one knows what Joe is up to...

9:25pm - YAY - extended unemployment - so we can be lazy butts longer and not have to create, find, or discover new jobs...

9:24pm - This plan saved 57 police officers' jobs. (Good only 3.48 million jobs to go... according to your promise)

9:23pm - This "Congress" delivered? (He means that his liberal goons acted. More Democrats voted against the stimulus than Republicans voted for it.)

9:22pm - An agenda that begins with jobs... (Only problem is that his stimulus does NOT CREATE JOBS!!!!!!!!!!)

9:21pm - People bought homes they could not afford? (Because Barney Frank and the Congressional Black Caucus yelled "RACISTS" if anyone told them they COULDN'T afford them...)

9:21pm - Surplus became an excuse to transfer wealth to the wealthy?

9:20pm - What is required is to pull together... WRONG - pull together around the RIGHT kind of ideas...

9:19pm - The weight of this crisis will not determine the destiny of this nation...

9:18pm - The evidence of this recession is real... DUH!