Mike Huckabee cannot, deep down, think he will be elected president of these United States anytime soon, or even some day. Smartly, Mr. Huckabee will not let that fact keep him from profiting from the remote, infinitesimal possibility. He's just signed a one-year contributor deal with Fox News, which will give him another pulpit to preach from, while the cable network locks him up from appearing on competitors, who are all said to have courted him. As Howie Kurtz notes, "the deal keeps Huckabee in the spotlight as he contemplates a second run in 2012, a tactic perfected by Pat Buchanan, who hosted CNN's Crossfire between presidential campaigns." Buchanan, of course, lost both campaigns. And he's on MSNBC now.