Hillary would look competent, serious, and informed compared to Huckabee.
And since he has an Arkansas ethics stench to rival Hillary's own, the Republicans would lose that campaign advantage as well.
Now, that's scary.
“Hillary would look competent, serious, and informed compared to Huckabee.”
Huckabee is incoherent and Jimmy Carter-esque on foreign policy, thinking good intentions is better than Bush’s tough foreign policy. Hillary would actually run to the right of Huckabee on this! ...
“On Iran, Huckabee is at his most troubling. He accuses the administration of “proceeding down only one track with Iran: armed confrontation.” This is false, and the kind of rhetoric you’d expect from DailyKos bloggers, not a Republican presidential candidate. Huckabee thinks it has been a lack of diplomatic engagement that has soured our relations with Iran: “We haven’t had diplomatic relations with Iran in almost 30 years, my whole adult life and a lot of good it’s done. Putting this in human terms, all of us know that when we stop talking to a parent or a sibling or a friend, it’s impossible to accomplish anything, impossible to resolve differences and move the relationship forward. The same is true for countries.”
This is the kernel of Huckabee’s foreign policy. He wants to anthropomorphize international relations and bring a Christian commitment to the Golden Rule to our affairs with other nations. As he told the Des Moines Register the other day, “You treat others the way you’d like to be treated. That’s to me the fundamental issue that has to be re-established in our dealings with other countries.”
This is deeply naïve. Countries aren’t people, and the world is more dangerous than a Sunday church social. Threats, deception, and — as a last resort — violence must play a role in international relations. Differences cannot always be worked out through sweet persuasion. A U.S. president who doesn’t realize this will repeat the experience of President Jimmy Carter at his most ineffectual.
http://www.redstate.com/redhot/dan_mclaughlin/2007/dec/10/nr_on_huckabees_foreign_policy_views_comments_enabled
On immigration Huck is incoherent as well:
“Rich, I’m with David Sanders re Huckabee’s scholarships-for-illegals routine. Laura Ingraham made Huck her “duck of the day” over that answer. It gets to one of my big problems with the guy: his complete philosophical incoherence. Where does Huckabee draw the line on his compassion? When he tries to draw it rhetorically, as with his answer that state scholarships for illegals are a grand idea but federal scholarships would be gilding the lily, he sounds absurd. And in practice, in Arkansas, there were no brakes on it at all: He just got dragged along by the illegal-normalization agenda like any Dem would.”
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NDI5NTBkMzc4ZDBlMTEyMmM1NTljZDRmOTlmMGRkMjc=
Yes, once the MSM gets up a head of steam on Huckster, he’ll be spun around like a top.
Landslide loss ... and for nothing, because in the end, he’s just a populist gabber.
Yes, scary.