Mike Huckabee for U.S. Senate

There's a Democrat-held Senate seat just waiting for him, one he could probably win by 20 points.

by Rod D. Martin
March 5, 2008

He ran a great race for President, one that only a handful of people (like me) imagined that such an underfunded, unknown former preacher could run.

But now it's over. So what's a newly famous term-limited ex-governor to do?

Well, he could certainly wait around to be picked for Vice President. But given the mercurial nature of that selection process, he could be in for a very long wait if he did.

But there is something he could do -- for himself, his party, and his country -- that would be worthy of all that support he just gained. And that's run for the U.S. Senate.

The math is simple, in both directions. Looking at Arkansas, Huckabee could easily end the one-term career of more-liberal-than-he-claims-to-be Senator Mark Pryor, originally elected largely because of his daddy's name. Indeed, the last time Huckabee was on the ballot for Senate (in 1996, just before Jim Guy Tucker went to the pen and catapulted him into the governor's mansion), he was up twenty p…