By Jonathan Alter
Newsweek Web ExclusiveUpdated: 12:25 PM ET Oct 22, 2007
The GOP is in a deep hole and keeps digging. Even after Mike Huckabee won big among attendees at last week's "Values Voters Convention," many evangelicals have been telling the former Arkansas governor—and onetime Baptist minister—that they like him but won't back him because he can't beat Hillary Clinton. They have it exactly backward. He may be the only Republican candidate with a decent chance to beat the Democrats next November.Huckabee? Yes, Huckabee.
