If Mike Huckabee's rise in the polls tastes like a surge, smells like a surge and looks like a surge ...

... well, you better put your ear plugs on as the most affable and certainly the most genuine of the Republican candidiates steps forward and takes center stage!

A Newsweek poll out yesterday afternoon had the GOP race among likely Iowa caucus goers:

• Mike Huckabee: 39 percent
• Mitt Romney: 17
• Fred Thompson: 10
• Rudy Giuliani: 9
• Ron Paul: 8
• John McCain: 6

Need Mediawingnuts say more ...

And although some are upset that Governor Huckabee has suggested that the prayers of folks like myself and ... yes, some teensy little bit of Divine intervention might be involved, my thoughts today are

So what!!