Posted on 11/09/2009 2:15:11 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In 2008, a charismatic right-wing populist Republican governor won the heart of the party's base despite being forced to take a backseat to a more respectable "moderate" Republican. He was Mike Huckabee, and he is sad, and mad.
Ben Smith followed Mike Huckabee around for a while as he sold his new Christmas book.
Huckabee was the governor of Arkansas. He used to be fat, and then he got skinny, and now he is getting fat again. He's also basically as crazy Christian as they come, but he masks this with a genuinely likable sense of humor, which is why he has a TV program on Fox now.
He won Iowa in 2008. He is raising a lot of money. He just won a Gallup poll of potential 2012 Republican candidates. But he has two problems: Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney.
Palin is the more marketable and exciting version of him, both because she says much dumber and insane things and also she is an attractive lady. Romney is the guy who will almost certainly actually win the nomination, because the sensible money guys in the party like him, despite the fact that he is Mormon Robot.
Here is Huckabee being totally not bitter about Sarah Palin stealing his gimmick:
"Some of the people who had excoriated me and really been very dismissive of me for views that I had taken, and labeled me anything from a populist to an ignoramus - the same people have been very defensive [of] and laudatory to Sarah Palin," Huckabee noted, adding that he'd invited her to appear on his weekly Fox show but "could never get any contact."
"I'm glad she's getting the props - I know I'm not nearly as attractive," he said with a guileless grin.
Now Huckabee is just eating his way across America, trying to get people excited about his book, insulting all the other Republicans who were and are mean to him. Pat Toomey and the Club for Growth—the Wall Street wing of the activist conservative movement—still hate him, which will make fundraising hard. And he still openly hates and ridicules Romney, which will probably prevent him from getting the VP slot.
You don't really need to worry about the Republicans in 2012. Unlike solar flares and earthquakes and volcanoes and stuff.
Boo frikkin hoo. Please don’t run Mike.
Go away Huckaphony.
Hey Huck, I don’t give a damn about your weight, and I still can’t stand looking at your face.
Oh, please elaborate, dear author. What has Palin said that was stupid and dumb? The Death Panels? High Taxes and the decline of our economy? Perhaps the march to Marxism really isn't what our fellow countrymen want.
What passes for Journalism to day is beyond pathetic. And then the Lame Stream Media wonder why the papers are going bankdrupt and Fox is literally printing money out of their offices.
Me too except, I am a man, am bald and gosh darn it, people like me. I'm just like Mike that is just like Sarah, I suppose.
On paper he was the perfect candidate.
He lost me when he said that it was unchristian to oppose illegal immigration.
Go look up what Tina Fey made up as Palinquotes and see how many of the media thinks they are genuine Palin Quotes.
Someone should tell this bozo that God invented humor.
No. It’s not about Sarah’s looks Huckster.
If this guy and his buddy Romney decide to run in ‘12, Obama wins reelection by a landslide.
Mostly right, except he's no Sarah Palin.
If it is unChristian to oppose illegal immigration, then every other nation in the world is unChristian in this regard.
Christ also said to give your cloak as well as your money over to a thief who asks for your money.
It is hard to live in that world. Government should not set policy to "ignore the laws" and our own particular form of government is prohibited from engaging in legal practices, whether they be tolerating illegal immigration or forcing nationalized healthcare, "because it is Christian to do so".
please do not compare them. ugh. *gag*
Sarah also has more balls than the Huckster.
You should have endorsed Fred Thompson, and he could have won in South Carolina.
Playing the victim like this is what a lib would do.
We could have had Fred instead of a muslim teleprompter.
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