Posted at The New Yorker:

“I was scratching my head, saying, ‘Hey, wait a minute. She’s wonderful, but the only difference was she looks better in stilettos than I do, and she has better hair.’ It wasn’t so much a gender issue, but it was like they suddenly decided that everything they disliked about me was O.K. . . . She was given a pass by some of the very people who said I wasn’t prepared.”

Okay, Huckster, as soon as you show me the evidence of Sarah Palin kissing up to the NEA, blowing the state budget through the roof with new spending, begging the Alaska state legislature for huge tax increases to pay for said new spending, salivating all over Al Gore's global warming bullshit, fighting for cheaper college tuition for illegals at taxpayer expense and begging for a national tobacco and fat-assed tranny ban, I'll give it to you that Sarah Palin is every bit as squishy as you are.  Unless you can do that, you should admit that you don't have a damn clue what you're talking about when it comes to who is--and who is not--conservative.

Sarah Palin isn't perfect, but what we see in her tells us that she understands, like Reagan understood, that conservatism is fundamentally about liberty, and about a bias of power toward the individual citizens as against the state.  Sarah Palin is, at worst, center-right on most, if not all, issues.  She is definitely to the right of McCain.

Conversely, very little of what we've seen in Huckster's track record disabuses us of the idea that he is a center-left squish who sees our nation as a group of people who need to be "fixed" by means of a laundry list of new do-gooder government programs.  He is, in general, to the LEFT of McCain.  DO NOT WANT.

UPDATE: I've been informed that Mike Huckabee did not, in fact, call for a national "fat-assed tranny" ban.  Turns out it was a trans fatty acid ban.  Fat-assed trannies will apparently be safe under a Huckabee Adminstration.  Apologies for the confusion.