With big wins in Super Tuesday states Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas, and West Virginia, it looks like the conservative Christian base has found its candidate for the 2008 Republican Presidential nomination with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.  And amidst claims from former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney that the race was down to a 2-person contest between himself and left-wing Arizona Sen. John McCain, Huckabee’s strong showing in the Republican states that matter show that he is the conservative alternative to McCain.

A defender of American jobs against neoconservative trade policies, a defender of gun rights, a Baptist minister unafraid to say America is a Christian nation, pro-life and pro-traditional marriage, a supporter of small business and the middle-class, and America’s number 1 advocate for abolishing the IRS, Gov. Huckabee has always been representative of the blue-collar base of the conservative movement.  But it wasn’t until Gov. Huckabee reached South Carolina, where he pledged to build a border fence spanning the entire Mexican border and to get rid of every illegal alien within the first 120 days of his Presidency that he truly emerged as the paleoconservative populist candidate for President.  And also in South Carolina, he addressed the NAACP boycott of that state for flying the Confederate battle-flag on Capital grounds, and said that if someone were to go to Arkansas and tell him what to do with his state flag (which is modeled after the Confederate battle-flag), he’d tell them “where to put the pole.”

For too long, the Republican Party has represented its financiers and not its blue-collar base of membership.  Open borders and no enforcement of immigration law, trade deals that are eliminating the middle-class, a tax code that mandates churches embrace multiculturalism and rewards businesses for discriminating against white people via affirmative action, regulations that make it impossible for the middle-class to break into the business world, and the abandonment of America’s Christian roots to suit non-Christian Jewish financiers has been business-as-usual in the Republican Party for too long.  Mitt Romney, while being far better than John McCain, is still far too representative of wealthy Republicans up North.  It is clear, the time has come for Gov. Huckabee to take back the Republican Party for conservatives.