I think I figured out why Huck hasn't dropped out...

This is pretty crazy. TV evangelists who are money hungry eventually get nailed. I don't think this is Hucks main motivation.

I mean, does'nt whatever he gets paid for a speech go to his campaign?

And I don't know that this is even true, your 25,000 figure. It may be true only part of the time.

Even then it still isn't a fair fight when the democrates and McCain have hundreds of millions and Huckabee has only a few or less to work with.

This is actually a rather lame post but I am glad you put it to make me think.

"Doesn't whatever he gets paid for a speech go to his campaign?"

No! No! No! That is highly illegal to raise campaign money through churches. As noted in the Colorado Springs link - Huck temporarily leaves the campaign trail for these speaking engagements. These are personal ventures...supposedly unassociated with his campaign.

The only way it goes to his campaign is if Huck pulls a "Mitt Romney" and writes a personal check to his campaign after he gets paid.

Huck dances on a very thin line when using churches and church infrastructure in the campaign process...and it is even thinner if he takes that money to write a personal check to his campaign. I think any judge and jury would consider that a laundering scheme to get around the campaign finance laws.

"Even then it still isn't a fair fight when the democrats and McCain have hundreds of millions and Huckabee has only a few or less to work with."

Sorry, but that is how politics works. Rules are there for a reason. If you want to play with the big boys, you have to be able to raise a lot of money within the confines of campaign finance regulations...and Huck just doesn't measure up in his abilities here. Several candidates have raised more money in one day than Huck has in 3 months. Hate to break it to you, but you just aren't presidential material when you can't rally people to support you with their pocketbooks.