No More Mr. Nice Huck

Rather than just hinting at it between comments about miracles and squirrels, Mike Huckabee is now painting Texas as a battleground from which he will launch himself into the middle of a brokered Republican convention. It was apparently not enough for Huckabee to self-identify with conservatives; now he has taken up the flaming sword and pledged to carry it all the way home, possibly dampening talk of a third party candidate in the process.