I only could stay for Huckabee’s 15-minute opening remarks at a packed–I mean packed–event at a gym in a Londonberry middle school this morning, but it was brilliant, absolutely brilliant. It was one of the most stirring and persuasive defenses of self-government and limited government–including the doctrine of subsidiarity–that I have heard in a long time. This guy is very good, and very shrewd–after playing the evangelical card in Iowa, today he was saying how America is all about “live free or die.” If McCain beats Romney here, you have to favor McCain for the nomination, but you can’t totally discount the possibility that Huckabee wins it, if it turns out that McCain still has limited appeal to bedrock Republicans despite a win here (and perhaps Michigan too) and if Huckabee can broaden out from evangelicals.