Governor Huckabee Woos Em & Wows Em in California.

www.caffeinatedthoughts.com ^ | 11/29/10 | David Shedlock

[grassboots.org]

According to Max Emanuel Donner's glowing report, former Arkansas Governor and likely 2012 presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, won the hearts of potential supporters in Yerba Buena, California on Sunday night.

"The admiring crowd and frequent photo ops with the Presidential aura of this Presidential landmark are ideally suited to politics in the age of social networking. Hundreds of enthusiastic fans had their pictures taken with Huckabee smiling with Presidential memorabilia in the background.

This enthusiasm was quite genuine, inspired mainly by Huckabee’s own likeability and approachability. Visitor Charles Rhee came to the Nixon Library for the first time, saying “I’m here because Huckabee represents my views.” Huckabee spent most of the evening meeting with visitors personally as they lined up to have him sign their copy of his Christmas themed book “Can’t Wait ‘Til Christmas.” If you have ever attended a book signing at a large bookstore, you would notice an important difference. This looked a lot more like a market research survey, with Huckabee taking the time to listen to candid conversations from hundreds of Americans about what they would like America’s future to look like. This highly personal approach to test driving a possible presidential campaign was a good match for the content of Huckabee’s book, which shares lessons about the importance of patience (emphasis mine)."

And patience may be just what pays off for Huckabee in the next year. He has been quietly winning over the masses. He is easily the most well liked of all presidential candidates as reported in the National Review. And you won't win, if you are not liked. He seems equally comfortable around Country Music celebrities, and the high-falutin' women on The View. He seems to relate well to both evangelicals and Catholics, blacks and Latinos.

And it isn't a listening tour like Jeb Bush, Eric Cantor, and Mitt Romney held in 2009 to find out what they believed. That was derided by Rush Limbaugh because he said that Republicans needed to teach, not listen. But Huckabee criticized the tour back then because these candidates weren't listening when they supported TARP over the will of the people. No, Huckabee is showing that the political instincts of the American people can be good, when given the facts. It is an opportunity to show he is listening and that he has many of the answers to the questions they are asking.

One group of Republicans who still seem determined to try and stop Huckabee are the talk-show and pundit classes. Don't look for many of them to jump on board unless he becomes a sure thing in the spring of 2012. They will mostly ignore him (at their peril of their own credibility).

[Mr. Lucky]

I’ll go with Blog Pimps for $400, Alex.

[grassboots.org]

Rick Perry was applauded for his stands for state sovereignty on issues surrounding the border and on Obamacare. But few know or care) that Perry first passed a law allowing children of illegals to compete with others for in-state tuition rates if they successfully attended Texas government schools.

The point is not whether that wsa the right policy or not (it wasn’t), it is whether such things are equivalent to ceding “sovereignty”. It isn’t.

[grassboots.org]

The problem with your theory is that they only give “favorable” press coverage to candidates that are unknown. Pawlenty, Santorum, and the Indiana boys will probably get lots of great press until they compete.

In other words, almost every candidate will get somewhat positive coverage until they are the inevitable.

[allmendream]

Part of national sovereignty is enforcement of borders and laws. If America is a nation with borders and laws, then it is sovereign. If it is a nation without borders, where laws are ignored - then it is not a nation of people and laws - but simply a place of employment and benefits freely available to all without regards to the law.

Huckabee is a complete non-starter. If brainpower were TNT this goober couldn't even blow his nose. He is soft on crime, soft on illegal immigration, and soft headed.

If the GOP nominates him, they will deserve electoral defeat.

Big Government liberalism with a Christian face is not conservatism.

[grassboots.org]

You exagggerate because you disagree. Shame on you. Huckabee does not, nor ever has belived in open borders.

[allmendream]

“He was sentenced to over a hundred years for crimes in which no one was physically harmed.”

How much are you willing to misstate the truth to defend Huckabee?

He was convicted of “aggravated robbery”, to those of you in Rio Linda “aggravated” usually means violence or the threat of violence accompanied the robbery and in this case he punched a woman in the head as he robbed her for $16 and a credit card.

[grassboots.org]

Just so we are clear. You think all teenage criminals who carry a gun, but don’t use it, and punch somebody in the face deserve a 100+ year sentence?

[OB1kNOb]

As one who knows the Huckster better than the vast majority on FR, take it from me, he's a nice guy personally, but when it comes to conservatism and politics, he sells nothing but snake oil promises.

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[allmendream]

I think that when you said nobody was harmed, it was a lie and directly contradicted by the facts.

Just how low are you willing to go to defend Huckabee?

And I think that eight felonies, attempts to harm courtroom bailiffs and guards, and his unrepentant nature and violent demeanor MORE than warranted a 100+ year sentence.

But I am not a soft hearted soft headed soft on crime ‘if you are forgiven by the Lord, you are pardoned by the State’ phony like Huckabee.

[Dead Corpse]

Good. He can run for President of Kalifornistan then.

NO MORE RINO'S. Period.

[dblup]

“...sells nothing but snake oil promises...”

Yes but he has that inner fatso aspect to him that is just so charming.

If he can forego the selling part and get to GIVING AWAY the snake oil (and maybe some FREE CARS now and then!) the nomination is his.

[OB1kNOb]

If he can forego the selling part and get to GIVING AWAY the snake oil (and maybe some FREE CARS now and then!) the nomination is his.

He tried the used car giveaway approach in 2008, but that didn't work either......

[Vigilanteman]

You’re right. He’s ever much as in favor as border control as his bosom body Juan McCain. < / sarcasm >

[A CA Guy]

Hope it was a Huckabee political retirement party. We can't really use him in 2012 except to back the eventual candidate IMO.

[A CA Guy]

There are more conservatives/Republicans in CA than any other state. Problem is their are even MORE government employed union or welfare grabbing Democrats there as well.

[CALawyer]

It would not surprise me if the MSM tries to prop up a well-known candidate like Romney during the primaries knowing that many conservatives and Christians will never vote for him if he gets the Republican nomination.