Huckabee ran for White House on wing and a prayer
Wed Mar 5, 2008
By Ed Stoddard

DALLAS (Reuters) - Mike Huckabee shook up the Republican Party establishment with an improbable run for its presidential nomination that energized the party's evangelical Christian base but failed to attract moderates beyond it.

Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas, stayed alive as better known rivals dropped by the wayside but finally had to fold up his campaign on Tuesday as Arizona Sen. John McCain marched through the state-by-state voting to become the party's candidate in the November election. the rest