The confusion many conservative talk show hosts feel as to why the social conservative voter will not walk away from Huckabee is similar to the frustration and confusion most of society feels as they watch a battered woman who cannot walk out on her batterer. Politicians have become the voter's savior, protector, everything.
    Voters have been coddled and battered...coddled and battered...coddled and battered...until most voters have been rendered docile, dependent and with little self-confidence in making one of the most important political decision in their lives, how to pick a presidential candidate. Very important decisions affecting the voters’ lives happen regularly outside of the voter's ability to change. Hence, the nearly complete dependence on "endorsements" from special...all knowing...super intelligences...to tell the voter who he/she should vote for.

     The mere use of the term “poll’ by the media to mean a random sampling prediction and simultaneous use of the word “poll” to mean the legitimate voting place gives the hint of validity to the random poll. These sampling polls of complete strangers are lauded regularly by both the media and the general public leading the average voter to the belief that the polls are the absolute truth. Because of this belief millions of voters give up on election day and either stay away from the voting booth or change their vote to the "popular" choice under the misperception that otherwise their vote would be wasted. This base of highly emotional voters, that are led around by the nose, help to make that poll a self-fulfilling prophecy.

     Just like when the batterer shows vulnerability to the battered woman and the woman rallies to offer the batterer comfort, Huckabee’s pleas concerning about what he deems an unfairness of the availability of campaign funds and his whining plea on national TV during the California elections to be “included” in the race has pulled the emotional social conservative like a rallying plea to come to his aid. Afterall, who but the frustrated and abandoned voter can better understand the feeling of his helplessness toward the political machine.

     Clinton pulled voters to his side continually with “I feel your pain.”  Similarly, a Mrs.Clinton evoked enough sympathy vote from the NH voters to ignore all national polls predicting an Obama win and rally to her defense effectively breaking the almighty poll fallacy.  With the fall of the sanctity of poll results, came an immediate fear on the part of the political media machine.  What if the voter escaped into reality and started to make rational decisions on their own? How could anyone “predict” what could happen next? The obvious confusion was both seen and heard in all forms of the media.  Poll results were all over the board. Both sides of the political power machines scrambled. This had to be stopped. Polls were slowly brought back to conformity. Hillary would be the winner for the Democrats. McCain would be the winner for the Republicans. The political media machinery was back in action.

     The consensus of the Republican base looks at the battered social conservative sitting on the  Huckabee fence and does not understand why he/she will not jump off and land on either side.  With the threat of another four to eight years of the Clintons in the White House a lot of conservative values are at stake. It remains to be seen if this group will remain in their comfort zone or take the leap.  To do this the battered voter would have to gain enough independence to ignore all endorsements. (And Huckabee's obvious stance toward McCain is an endorsement.), ignore all random sampling and polls, research the issues and vote their convictions.  A perfect storm is brewing. It remains to be seen if there will be any destruction.