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”.
Would you rather have Huckabee, Rudy, or McPain? I’m just curious.
Change is hard to accept, but the simple fact is that Iowa and NH and other sundry bellwethers of the political past have had their day.
Totaled their clout is worth warm spit compared to the big Southern states and Super Tuesday.
Hillary knows it.
Rudy knows it - but their respective party organizations are still run by citizens from the states which have a collective total of a dozen or so electoral votes.
How many FReepers know that Florida now has a larger population than NY?
The legal census won’t come in time for that to affect the 08 election, but the fact remains. - the demographics are changing as people desert the NE and fly South for Redder pastures - and contrary to popular opinion, not all of them are bringing the old habits with them. They know...
Few people in Florida give a damn about the Iowa caucus and don't care at all for the huckabebe. - His chance here is solidly between zero and nil, and nil has left the building
“If you accept the proposition that Huckaloon is a conservative — which is currently the biggest lie on the American political scene”
Yup, it is.
http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2007/cbarchive_20071102.html
Randy Minton, chairman of the Arkansas chapter of Phyllis Schlafly’s national Eagle Forum, said, “We called him a pro-life, pro-gun liberal, when I was in the state legislature and he was governor.” Phyllis Schlafly herself was even more direct.
President and Founder of Eagle Forum, Phyllis Schlafly, said this about Governor Huckabee: “He destroyed the conservative movement in Arkansas, and left the Republican Party a shambles.”
Fund also said this about Huckabee: “’He’s just like Bill Clinton in that he practices management by news cycle,’ a former top Huckabee aide told me. ‘As with Clinton there was no long-term planning, just putting out fires on a daily basis. One thing I’ll guarantee is that won’t lead to competent conservative governance.’”