David Kuo thinks he knows:
Several weeks ago, an evangelical friend said to me that he thought Huckabee wasn't really running for president -- he was running to be the next Pat Robertson. At first I scoffed at the notion. But the more I've watched Huckabee and thought about it, the less silly the suggestion has sounded.
In 1988, Robertson ran for president and then ended up launching the Christian Coalition, the most influential religious right organization in history. Robertson's run brought more than a million new evangelicals to the polls and to his mailing list, which he handed over to a brilliant young political operative named Ralph Reed. And the rest is history.So it's not impossible that when Huckabee is done not being the GOP nominee, he might just sit back, look at his list of donors and the gaping hole in leadership on the religious right and decide it's not so bad being king . . . maker.
This wouldn't surprise me in the slightest. The more states he goes to, the higher his national profile gets, and the larger his network grows. If I had to guess, I'd say his first move after this election is to start a nationally syndicated radio show.
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