WHAT MIKE HUCKABEE OWES HIS PARTY:

Bye Bye Blanche: Can Republicans finally get their act together in Arkansas? (Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, 12/21/2009, Weekly Standard)

Even before she became the swing vote that forced consideration of Obamacare onto the Senate floor, two-term Arkansas senator Blanche Lambert Lincoln had a dubious distinction: "For 2010, she may be the most endangered Democratic senator in the country," says Public Policy Polling head Dean Debnam.

Political handicappers began to note her vulnerability last summer when, in the face of the tea-party movement, Lincoln refused to hold town hall meetings with her constituents. In a conference call with Arkansas reporters, she called tea-party confrontations with politicians "un-American," and ever since, even though she relented and held a few town halls in September, her negatives have outnumbered her positives in Arkansas polls.

Run, Huck, run.

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 14, 2009 6:38 AM