Something has been bothering me about my friend’s comments I posted earlier. The thing about Huck rejecting “Rovian” politics. That might be true in some symbolic sense, but if we take Rovian politics as it is conventionally defined as massively turning out the base and using negative, personal wedges against an opponent, Huckabee did both. He blew out the Romney turn-out model the way Bush did Kerry’s in 2004 because evangelicals showed up in an off-the-charts turnout. As for the negative stuff, he never went up on the air, but he (subtly) used the religion card against Romney and frankly used the class card. He did the latter at basically every campaign stop. So if this is the new politics, it’s going to come with a subtly nasty undercurrent.