Yawn

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee is finally forming an exploratory committee for 2008. This prompted Erick Erickson (here and here) to note Huckabee's less than conservative credentials. Of course, he can't be any worse than the last guy we got from Hope...

Also of note, John McCain is going to try to further clamp down on free speech by enacting tough campaign finance reform on 527 groups. It is hard to imagine that McCain could do much more to impose upon the First Amendment than he did via McCain-Feingold, but he has found a way.

Thankfully, we've still got a ways to go until we have a Republican nominee...