Posted on 12/04/2007 8:13:17 AM PST by Petronski
Very solid point. If Huck causes everyone's lights to come on regarding Rooty those very same voters will start to see the light about Mike. Once the voters know the issues there will be no more tricking them with campaign flip-flops. And THAT will take them to the consistent candidates.
What I find ironic is that I seem to remember two months ago, two of arguably the best politicians of the modern era, Bill Clinton, and Newt Gingrich, both predicted that he would be the eventual nominee. Regardless of whether we like their politics or not, we must acknowledge they are both great politicians. What did they know that we didn't. We all laughed at them then, now we are scratching our heads. I am going to try and find that article.
See my post 61. I have the same conclusion.
*Grabbing my tinfoil hat* that sounds very suspicious...like someone behind the scenes is up to it...
Bingo.
You are absolutely right about that.
Fox News is making me sick with their overt pro Rooty crap. They're latest ploy of riding around with Rooty while filming is nothing but a free Campaign Commercial.
When I saw a bit of the promo on Sunday I got so steamed I felt like grabbing my 9mm and 'doing an Elvis' on my TV. Which I still may do if they keep it up, but with a hammer ;-)
I agree that Huckabee is the distraction of the month. The media is setting him up for a fall just like they did Thompson. They hype a candidate without the appeal, campaign organization, money, etc. into an unnaturally high position in the polls, and then they turn on the guy and make him drop like a rock. I'm sure the MSM board rooms are full of laughter after they successfully pull this stunt off the way they did with Thompson. Now Huckabee is the new rube. Meanwhile, Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney remain the only two candidates with the campaign organization, appeal, ability, and cash to make it to the primary election and then the general election. I'm pulling for the pro-life, fiscally conservative, business leader candidate and opposing the corrupt, serial adulterer, pro-radical gay agenda, pro-abortion, pro-illegal alien liberal lawyer candidate whose nomination would destroy the GOP and give the Democrats decades of unopposed power in all three branches of government.
Found it - Bill Clinton, Gingrich agree on Huckabee as GOP dark horse -
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1904542/posts
From 9/30/07, we all laughed. Scary isn’t it?
Ironic that his “strength” so well touted amongst many on these very pages could be his undoing. How can he sell himself as a fiscal conservative with a successful business baclkgroud if he is willing to lose that kind of money on a fruitless effort.
“Tryst Fund Tales”——heheh——love it. Rooty and his girlfriend cavorting on the taxpayers’ dime came back to bite him bigtime.
His loser debate performance is another factor——he can’t seem to fathom heartland voters could care less about his NYC mayoralty——you can’t govern a country with a NYC guidebook.
Another huge disqualifier is Rooty’s irrationality. He is saturating our political system with the irrational delusions seen in those Mideast sinkholes. He’s shown a complete inability to govern a democracy.
Candidates like Rooty who cannot see the US presidency, and its citizens, through the prism of the red, white, and blue are summarily kicked out of politics.
Thompson Huckabee in either order would be fine with me.
As we have said all along, the more that everyone gets to know a liberal like Rudy and his liberal buddies--the more he will drop.
There is a BIG difference between those two. I could sooner see Rudy and Huck on the same ticket.
This is what I am hoping as well. Fred is well positioned to be there when Huckleberry squishes.
“huckleberry lost 90% of the Republicans with his CLOSE GITMO promise.”
You think so? So if Huckabee is sincere about closing Guantanamo, you’ll vote for Hillary in 08? This I’ve gotta see.
Huckabee is a fantastic politician (and without the benefit of millions of dollars for polling to see what he “should” be saying.) The real issue regarding Gitmo is not whether we detain at Gitmo or not, but whether he means that we should return to the Clinton-era policy of criminalizing terrorism, which was a disaster.
Until someone asks him that (and he WILL tell us if he’s asked) all the “close Gitmo” comment does is carve out more of the center’s votes for himself. And even some of Hillary’s if she tries to straddle the fence on the issue when she’s asked (which is probably a given....has she been asked?)
Wow! This shows how fast things can change. The droning Rudy lead is now history, Mitt’s waning, and the door is open. People are beginning to take a look at the other candidates and we are off and running. There is nothing but opportunity in these numbers.
Go Fred!
Rudy’s dropped from 30% to 18%.
Fred’s dropped from 27% to 14%.
I hope you are right that Rudy is on life support, and Fred is biding his time. But you can’t make that assumption based on the numbers.
The most encouraging thing is that Rudy seems to have downward momentum, while Fred has stopped the slide.
But Huckabee has strong upward momentum, and we are EXPECTING that to stop. There’s no reason why we should expect Rudy to keep falling, or Fred to start moving upward, or Huckabee to stop rising.
One thing is clear — it’s in the hands of each candidate now. Nobody has a clear margin, so every one of the 5 leading candidates holds their future. Whichever one can sell themselves to the supporters of the other candidates can come out on top.
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