Huckabee left seminary to work for James Robinson a Baptist evangleist.  James grew tired of preahing in hot sweaty football stadiums and followed other channels of Christian activism, among them was getting Ronald Reagan elected.
     It was during this time frame that Robinson recruited the notorious Cullen Davis to join his team.  Davis was the famous oil rich aggie who capped a few rounds off into some step family members and faced murder charges.  Davis was acquitted and next teamed up with Nelson Bunker Hunt and Tim LaHaye to form the most power religious right organization in the nation, the secretive Council on National Policy.
     Another evangelist of this time was Rick Scarbrough, wwwvisionamerica.us Close behind Robinson on the calendar of revivals around the nation, Rick was preaching to thousands weekly. Rick wrote that the only thing that resulted from the meetings was that his children grew up without him.  He thus grew more interested in holding political action events.  He used to preach about the crucifixion of of Jesus.  Now he claims Terri Schaivo, Judge Roy Moore and Tom Delay were crucified.  He seems more interested in the more recent "crucifixions".  Rick is on board with Huckabee.
     When national rallies are held by these groups they are not held in Los Angeles, the center for entertainment, nor New York, the center for fiance.  The meetings are scheduled in Washington D.C.  Thus the answer lies, not in the church as much as in the legal systems of the American government.
     Groups like Chalcedon, www.chalcedon.com, have helped create the Dominion concept. That is the Biblical answer is for Christians to take back the state.  
     In Huckabee's earlier day the fact that a minister left the pulpit to be a politician was a step down.  It is no longer viewed that way. Huckabee sees his calling as a higher mandate than merely being a Christian minister. The modern Baptist chruch has evolved to such a stance.  Now the Southern Baptist Convention has shifted its model of Christian activism that once centered on mission work.  Rick Scarborough spoke about this  at his rally I was at.  He claimed that people who used to send their money to mission work now sent it to his movement.
     Huckabee is the perfect example a new Baptist vision in the nation.  The modern media has failed to notice this shift.