Which of the big three Republicans would have done worst in 2008?

[Landslide Lyndon]

Everyone of them had their glaring weaknesses.

McCain was clueless about the economy, too old and erratic. The Sarah Palin pick must be one of the worst decisions made by a presidential candidate ever.

Romney was a phony and a flip floper. Not to mention that running as a millionaire businessman during the Lehmann Brothers collapse would be terrible optics.

Huckabee was too socially conservative for the general electorate, too fiscally liberal for his base, and a horrible fundraiser. 

Overall, we'll never know.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Huck was and is a rapture right conservative, and didn't hide it at well at all in 08. He couldn't "pass" to many non-evengelical swing voters the way W did. Huck would've crashed hard IMHO.

Indeed. But he was much more charismatic and likable than the other two and his economic populism would have played well, especially against a TARP voting senator like Obama.