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The implication that McCain isn’t an “absolute pro-life candidate” is a pretty crazy one, too.  One doesn’t earn a life-time 0% NARAL rating while not being as strongly anti-abortion as one can be, after all.  (Whether one thinks this is a good thing or not I’ll leave to the reader, but it’s important for people who think McCain is a “moderate” to know, in the same way that one hopes that the group of people who describe themselves as “strongly opposed to the Iraq war” who keep voting for him will eventually realize that he’s all along been the strongest pro-war candidate [and has consistently been among the strongest pro-war senators] in the race.)

I suspect that God is telling Huckabee to keep running, at least for a few more primaries.

It’s because they keep raising the bar on the term “pro-life.” I think it now requires you to support a constitutional amendment prohibiting all abortions, or something like that.

Federalism-based objections are no longer permitted in today’s Republican party, see e.g. Terry Schiavo, Raich v. Ashcroft, Gonzales v. Oregon, candidacy of Huckabee etc.

Actually, I think it has to do with embryonic stem cell research.  Huckabee is against it; McCain has supported it.

"Actually, I think it has to do with embryonic stem cell research.  Huckabee is against it; McCain has supported it.”—Ed

Exactly.