Something I’ve always liked about Mike Huckabee is his candor and generally pragmatic sense, which were on display in a recent interview with GQ:

Compare yourself to Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney. Do you think you’re more center right?
I think my political philosophies are solid, traditional conservative. It’s not that I’m a moderate, even though I’ve been called that. In the course of governing a state like Arkansas… I learned that you don’t get your way all the time. There may be some things that are very important to you. You have to figure out how you can get those things done and, at the same time, let the folks from the other side get some things that they want without compromising your core values. One of the things that concerns me—particularly about the atmosphere in Washington—is that I fear we are becoming an ungovernable country. You can campaign with bumper sticker absolutism. You can’t govern that way.

The 2012 Republican field remains to crystallize, but if Miss Wasilla deigns the presidency to be beneath her I’d like to see Huckabee in the fold – if only to have some legitimate cheerfulness in the Republican mix.