An e-mail:

Hi Rich,
Thanks for arguing that Ames was “not nothing” — I completely agree. As a Huckabee fan, I was ecstatic at the results and disappointed at those who marginalized the victories of Romney and Huckabee.
There is indeed a good chance that Huckabee could grab the nomination, if this series of events takes place:
1. Brownback drops out and endorses Huckabee. Huckabee would gain the entire evangelical and pro-life Catholic voting bloc.
2. Once (1) happens, Christian conservative leaders like Dobson will line up behind Huckabee.
3. Huckabee crushes Romney and FDT in the next set of debates.
4. Once (2 & 3) happen, Huckabee will start to siphon support from both Romney and FDT.
5. Newt Gingrich decides not to enter, but instead endorses Huckabee.
6. Another campaign implodes (either Giuliani or FDT).
7. With (1,2,3,4,5,6), Huckabee wins Iowa, and places 2nd in NH.
8. South Carolina is Huckabee-land. Huckabee easily places 1st.
9. With wins in Iowa and South Carolina, the dominos start to tumble and Huckabee wins the nomination.
– If all goes well –
10. Huckabee easily crushes Hillary in 2008, since he has all sorts of info on the Clintons back from the Arkansas days. He then invites his band, Capitol Offense, to play during his own inauguration. After 8 years of Huckabee, we get 3 conservative SCOTUS appointments, an implementation of the Fair Tax system, and the dying whimpers of Al-Qaeda whose will was broken at the hands of a bass-playing joke-telling weight-losing president named Huckabee.
The End.