According to the Drudge Report, the Democratic Party is trying to avoid any and all criticisms of Mike Huckabee until he secures the nomination — because they consider him “an easy kill:”

The Democratic National Committee has told staffers to hold all fire, until he secures the party’s nomination. The directive has come down from the highest levels within the party, according to a top source. Within the DNC, Huckabee is known as the “glass jaw — and they’re just waiting to break it.” In the last three weeks since Huckabee’s surge kicked in, the DNC hasn’t released a single press release criticizing his rising candidacy.

“He’ll easily be their McGovern, an easy kill,” mocked one senior Democrat operative Tuesday morning from Washington. “His letting out murderers because they shout ‘Jesus’, his wanting to put 300,000 AIDS patients and Magic Johnson into isolation, ain’t even scratching the surface of what we’ve got on him.”

I guess this is why the party hacks as the National Review, the Wall Street Journal, The Club for Growth, and elsewhere have been attacking Huckabee for the past two months — because they know he is dead on arrival.