MICKEY KAUS: “Obama goes after Edwards: Hillary’s not even Obama’s main rival anymore?”

UPDATE: Brendan Loy isn’t happy: Edwards vs. Huckabee? Shoot me now.

Huckabee was a nice, likeable guy when we talked to him. But honestly, I think I’d vote for Edwards over Huckabee, though I’d feel dirty the next morning. And I’d be even more likely to vote for Hillary or Obama.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Ouch: “Huckabee is the Harriet Miers of the presidential candidates. Two words: under… qualified.”

And some related thoughts from Rand Simberg.

MORE: One of Rand Simberg’s commenters wants to know why I’d prefer Edwards over Huckabee. Basically, I believe that both would have similar socialist/populist programs, but that Republicans would combine against Edwards’ programs, producing useful gridlock. On the other hand, Dems would be only too happy to go along with Huckabee’s programs, and too many Republicans might do so too, out of party loyalty. The main thing Huckabee has, policy wise, that Edwards doesn’t is that he favors Second Amendment rights, but I wonder if he wouldn’t jettison them in some sort of “for the children” compromise at a crucial point, knowing that he’d get media adulation for doing so. Plus, the more I watch him operation, the more Clintonian his campaign seems. Edwards’, on the other hand, is just inept, which suggests that he wouldn’t be very scary in office. And both would probably be equally Carteresque in foreign policy.