The Times wonders why social conservatives aren’t hearting Huckabee: 

Unlike any of the major candidates, he’s still on his first wife and first position on abortion. Once we start getting into the inevitable personal stories of redemption, Americans would have a much better time listening to Huckabee tell how he lost 110 pounds than sitting through Rudy’s 9/11 story again or looking at pictures of Mitt’s 10 grandchildren.

The column calls him this election’s likable candidate, who can be “both funny and convincing on the stump.”  The column also says he would be an awful leader, because: “He doesn’t know beans about foreign affairs, he wants to replace the income tax with a national sales tax, and his positions on social issues are far to the right of the general populace.”  Of course, the general populace doesn’t really define what’s right, so we’ll excuse that last one.

Why aren’t more people liking Huckabee?