Dick Morris on the Republican implosion

Dick Morris was just on Hannity and Colmes with the best assessment I’ve heard so far of what’s happening to the Republican Party, though my friend Joe Carter at the Evangelical Outpost might disagree. Three primaries/caucuses have produced three different winners each representing 1/3 of the traditional conservative coalition: Huckabee takes the social conservative wing in Iowa; McCain takes the defense/security conservatives in New Hampshire; and Romney takes the fiscal conservatives in Michigan. Morris notes that we could get to Super Tuesday and still not know who the Republican nominee will be.

Which candidate has the best chance of bringing together the three strands of the conservative movement? It may indeed be NONE OF THE ABOVE. It may be an as yet undeclared candidate in the wings. It would be Mike Huckabee if the Republican establishment would A) tell the truth about his record on taxes and immigration, and B) repent of their bigotry against him because he (in his own words) has “a neck that’s red, a collar that’s blue, and a Bible that’s black.”