Posted on 12/03/2007 6:04:24 PM PST by melt
Exactly.
But what you are failing to understand is that the other items must come first. If your base does not support you, you have no chance. The mushy middle will not carry the day for you.
The Mushy middle will determine landslide or squeaker.
He’s Bob Taft with an accent.
Yeah, Rush was pretty much telling it like it is.
Like someone else up the thread said, I don’t like the guy either. Just seems to say what he thinks people want to hear. Barf.
Mike Huckabee admits he can’t win the presidency! He also says he wants to surrender America to illegal aliens!!!!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=iExzh2Ku8GQ
Huckabee is being pushed in order to stymie Romney. The liberal media hates Romney, as he is by far the best and most electable Republican candidate and his momentum in Iowa and NH were going to steamroll the primary race. So they are using Huckabee as a torpedo in Iowa in order to set up the Giuliani-Hillary match they’ve wanted from the start.
I forgot to mention, that if he had Fred Thompson’s accent-— he’d have the appeal of a Will Rogers.
Why would we despise him now? I loved the guy when he was President.
If you recall, Reagan was hated by the RINOS in the party. Now they all claim he was great.
I’m going to back up jveritas some here, more devils advocate than anything... Huck has the southern pedigree and is an ex-gov. The whole senator from New England thing is done. Recent prez’s are ex-gov’s from CA, TX, AR, GA. They call it the rust belt for a reason.
This may all be true but it is undeniable that Huckabee relates to folks better than my guy Hunter. Non political junkies in the Republican base like the guy and he is likeable. I know because I met him at a Free Republic Ball.
Having said that Huck is the flip side of Giuliani, neither of whom I belive can win over the democrat because both alienate one of more legs of the three legged conservative stool.
A shame Hunter doesn't have the whatever it is that Huck has.
Agree 100%.
Huck makes the economic and libertarian conservatives very nervous. He hasn’t exactly endeared himself to security conservatives either vis a vis illegals.
I was listening to Mike Fleming on AM 600 in Memphis today, and a woman called in saying she was a lifelong Democrat but would vote for the Huck in a minute if he was in the general. Said he showed he cared about people, an I immediately thought of The Bent One, and his feeling one’s pain!
Compassionate Conservatism has destroyed the once Grand Old Party. Now we are bad guys for wanting to say no, and only back to the ways of the Gerald Ford years.
Me too, I agree
I don’t know why you feel that way, he sounds very likeable whenever he speaks. He is a conservative, what are you complaining about?
“Huckabee is being pushed in order to stymie Romney. The liberal media hates Romney, as he is by far the best and most electable Republican candidate and his momentum in Iowa and NH were going to steamroll the primary race. So they are using Huckabee as a torpedo in Iowa in order to set up the Giuliani-Hillary match they’ve wanted from the start.”
I think you’re absolutely right. And they get the added bonus that Huckabee is sucking up support that might have gone to Fred Thompson.
I’m leaning towards the idea that Romney is the candidate who would fair best with either Democrat: Clinton or Obama. His resume is better, and he’s got the energy to combat them step for step. He’s also going to be able to keep up with them on a dollar for dollar basis, which is huge. I had thought Thompson might be up for this. He still might, and he seems to be showing some new signs of life. But its hard for his campaign to get recogniztion with this bozo named Huckabee running around.
I’m just not at all convinced that Huckabee has what it takes to organize on a national level. His growth in the polls is for one thing: he’s a Christian who wears it on his sleave. That’s it. Perhaps for his stance on guns. And with a lot of help from the media.
We’re being sold snake oil right now. But it’s Christian snake oil!
(And I say this as a regular church attendee)
What do you mean a “nobody?” He was a governor. Honestly, I don’t understand the reasoning of some people, it just makes no sense.
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