The National Review has a damning indictment of Huckabee's supposed foreign policy positions:

Huckabee did give a long speech on foreign policy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in September. It combined a superficial rendering of conventional foreign-policy wisdom — which of course included many unfair criticisms of President Bush — with Huckabee’s inimitable folksy delivery. The former governor’s bottom line was that we should be nicer to other countries.

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On Iran, Huckabee is at his most troubling. He accuses the administration of “proceeding down only one track with Iran: armed confrontation.” This is false, and the kind of rhetoric you’d expect from DailyKos bloggers, not a Republican presidential candidate. Huckabee thinks it has been a lack of diplomatic engagement that has soured our relations with Iran: “We haven’t had diplomatic relations with Iran in almost 30 years, my whole adult life and a lot of good it’s done. Putting this in human terms, all of us know that when we stop talking to a parent or a sibling or a friend, it’s impossible to accomplish anything, impossible to resolve differences and move the relationship forward. The same is true for countries.”

This is the kernel of Huckabee’s foreign policy. He wants to anthropomorphize international relations and bring a Christian commitment to the Golden Rule to our affairs with other nations. As he told the Des Moines Register the other day, “You treat others the way you’d like to be treated. That’s to me the fundamental issue that has to be re-established in our dealings with other countries.”

This is deeply naïve. Countries aren’t people, and the world is more dangerous than a Sunday church social. Threats, deception, and — as a last resort — violence must play a role in international relations. Differences cannot always be worked out through sweet persuasion. A U.S. president who doesn’t realize this will repeat the experience of President Jimmy Carter at his most ineffectual.

Aside from being an incredible campaigner this guy is a total light weight. Clearly though he has tapped into something that was missing from the GOP this year. Even more then that though he has a Clinton like way of speaking. This is something I think conservatives have been clamoring for after 7 years of and the incredibly inarticulate Bush. I can only hope however that the more of this man's record that comes out, the more his support will begin to dwindle.

I think if Huckabee gets the nomination we could see a lot of GOP defections next year. If we're gonna have a raging liberal in the White House, let's let that person be a Democrat. Hell if Democrats were smart they should elect Huckabee. That way they can get all that they want and then when it goes Carter bad, they can blame it on Republicans.