Huckacide?

Rich Lowry writes in Townhall.com that Republicans will be committing political suicide -- "huckacide," as the headline on his column calls it -- if they nominate Mike Huckabee for president.

Lowry makes a good case, comparing Huckabee to Howard Dean in 2004, but it can't be overlooked that Townhall.com cast its lot with Mitt Romney earlier this week -- and, therefore, has a vested interest in seeing Huckabee start to fall in the polls.

Lowry points to many Huckabee weaknesses -- his unabashed opposition to the theory of evolution, his history of raising taxes while governor of Arkansas, his lack of national security credentials. "Wherever you scratch Huckabee on policy, he seems an inch deep," Lowry writes.

"Democrats have to be looking at Huckabee the way Republicans once regarded Dean," Lowry says, "as a shiny Christmas present that is too good to be true."

We won't have to wait long to find out how Huckabee's message is really playing with the Republican voters. Iowa holds its caucuses in less than three weeks, and the New Hampshire primary is a little more than three weeks away.