Mike Huckabee is to this presidential race as Howard Dean was to 2004:

• Both were small-start Governors with modest records.

• Both started out as minor candidates.

• Both catapulted to the front by capturing a bloc of voters who were leaderless: the Democratic antiwar left and the Republican Christian right.

• Both turned out to have a lot of baggage in what they did and said as Governors.

• And neither one looks like a President.

In the end, Dean imploded. Look for Huck to follow suit soon.

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