so why is huckabee still in?

[so i'm over at bill in exile, commenting away on a provocative question scott posted as to whether mike huckabee's been lying in wait for this mccain story to break, when all of a sudden it hits me that (a) i have sorely neglected mr. huckabee here at guttermorality; and (b) fuck, this is content, and now that i've got a blog to fill what the hell am i doing wasting all this goodness elsewhere?

so, in light of the foregoing (and because i have fuck-all to post right now) i am hereby reproducing said comment here in its entirety.]

could be [that huckabee's still in it for the win]–-rumors of this story have apparently been floating around since december. but i don't think the possibility of snatching the crown from mccain is what's keeping the huckster in the race (as evidence of same, I point to the fact that, at the moment, he's too preoccupied with whoring himself out for advertising and paid speaking in the caribbean to even bother campaigning all that hard); more likely, he's still in because what the hell else is he gonna do, go back to penny-ante preaching? no way, baby–-this is his fifteen minutes and he's smart enough to not only know it, but to milk it for all it's worth.

right now, i see huckabee as the political equivalent of a hungry dog hanging around under the kitchen table with his mouth open for whatever scraps may fall his way–-he's betting that if he makes a big enough splash, then when this is all over he can parlay his notoriety into a lucrative gig either in the mccain administration or on the lecture circuit (or if he's really lucky, both).

and the sad thing is, i think there are more than enough idiots out there to make his dreams come true.