One thing about Huckabee is that so many people still haven't heard of him. As people are learning about who Huckabee is, they tend to support him. This may help to account for why he is able to gain ground so quickly in the polls.
I hope this is just polling tricks. The Huckster is right up there with Rudi-Annie and McPain as absolutely the worst GOP candidates in a long time.
One thing about Huckabee is that so many people still haven't heard of him. As people are learning about who Huckabee is, they tend to support him. This may help to account for why he is able to gain ground so quickly in the polls.
MSM wants Huckabee, a Bush religious look alike that can sustain hate-Bush momentum and be taken down in the general election.
Thompson, a concrete conservative capable of energizing a conservative country and beating any Democrat in the general election.
CN&N, the DNC’s marketing firm fraudulently posing as a journalistic enterprise, conducts a “poll” that supports their clients agenda.
. <- grain of salt
Some people are saying “remember Howard Dean” but there’s a problem with that analogy. Running against Dean was a solid leftist mainstream alternative — JFnK — who the rats could look to as representing their core beliefs in a more electable fashion. In other words, even as Dean was surging in Iowa back in 2004, JFn was always there in the background as a legitimate leftist alternative.
Where is the legitimate conservative alternative in the minds of the Iowa Christian conservatives, someone they can turn to at the last minute out of fear that their number one choice, Huckashuckster, just isn’t all that electable, or even stable?
Of course I would say (being a FT supporter) that Thompson is the obvious choice for that mantle but just as obviously the Iowa Christian conservatives don’t see it that way. And who else is there? Really, nobody.
If you accept the proposition that Huckaloon is a conservative — which is currently the biggest lie on the American political scene — and you’re worried about electability, and you don’t want to vote for a liberal, then the Iowa Christian conservatives have painted themselves into a corner: they have to vote for Huckafraud.
I don’t see a Howard Dean punctured-balloon event on the horizon. I think Huckashmuck is going to win big in the state of Iowa, which is going to make Iowa conservatives go down in history (once everyone has had time to digest all the facts) as a pretty freaking stupid bunch of “conservatives”.
The Iowa Caucus is nothing like an ordinary primary. Polls mean nothing unless people turn out for the caucuses in the same proportions as they answer the phone.
Ohhhhhh ... My head is starting to hurt.
What's worse, a Hillary presidency to wreck the country, or a Huck presidency to wreck the country and the Republican party too?
-is it ok to get scared yet?
I have never seen such a bunch of nay-sayers on huckabee, sheeze, and you guys were all up on Thompson, I told my wife he would be done in two weeks, he was, and I told her Huckabee would win the election long before the debate, so far, I’m dead on, and you guys have a terrible feel for picking a candidate. I’m sorry, sounds egotistical, but FR has lost touch with America. Huckabee is not the end of the world candidate like you guys think, the two candiates everyone was phyched about on this forum never had a chance, Hunter? Thompson? not only that, but I feel they would have made for terrible presidency’s
The Huckster’s past positions on immigration, spending, regulation and taxes are unacceptable.
Ross was from Texarkana. This cat is from the same city as good old Bill. Swell.
The guy is Dukakis with a drawl.
I don’t like him.
If he ends being the nominee I will vote for him.