Game-change in GOP race?

The very first op-ed piece in the "This Week" section of a recent issue of National Review devoted to analysis of the GOP candidates for next year's presidential election floated the following idea:

Rudy-Huck '08? Between the two of them, the ticket will have one solid conservative.

Today the following articles were in the news:

(1) Mike Allen, "Huckabee called homosexuality 'sinful'" (Politico, December 8, 2007); and

(2) Andrew Demillo, "Huckabee wanted to isolate AIDS patients" (Yahoo.news, December 8, 2007).