[pissant]

Rollins, you picked a dud.

[OB1kNOb]

Huckster Ping.

Dumond case revisited - A reminder of Huckabee's role in his freedom

[Ann Archy]

Rollins is a DUD.

[Perdogg]

I thought it was about Henry Rollins.

[dforest]

I am going to have to get back on my indigestion medication.

I have a new illness “huckayuck”.

[donna]

Ed Rollins (born March 19, 1943).

Huh, I expected him to be much older.

[cripplecreek]

I’m getting sick of all the Huckstrubating going on.

[Badeye]

Rollins took the only job offer available.

And Huckabee took the only ‘name’ willing to sign on.

A match made in political mediocrity ‘heaven’ if ever there was one.

[FreedomProtector]

Huck just got his Rove.

[AuntB]

Just another pundit who never cared if the borders were secure.

[montag813]

The Chamber of Commerce must be behind Huckabee, since he is the candidate of continuing illegal slave labor.

[truthluva]

Ed Rollins, the mastermind of Ronald Reagan's 1984 landslide reelection and of Ross Perot's independent bid in 1992,

So he helped a Clinton get elected. Is he looking to repeat that?

[JRochelle]

What the hell are peopel seeing in Mike Huckabee that I don’t see?

Am I missing something?

He comes across to me as a simpleton, dumbing down his answers to all questions. Intentional or not, he comes across as someone who thinks all people are dumb.

[DemEater]

I can’t figure out if this is because the Hukster is for real (a credible candidate) or because Rollins needed a job.

[BlueStateBlues]

Huckabee was smart to ask him, even though it’s surprising he agreed. This should improve Huck’s chances a bit, and will curtail his public bloopers.

[Reagan79]

Maybe - But this will definitely help Huckabee gain support with some Reagan conservatives. If he can reassure voters he is willing to be a tax and budget cutter he will have a much better chance.

[mimaw]

Hucks is the only campaign that would have him. Give me a break.

[stylin19a]

But Rollins is great at ‘walking around” money...

[upchuck]

Stockmarket theory says buy low, sell high.

Stockmarket practicality usually works out to buy high, sell low.

Exactly what Ed is doing. Shudda been here a month ago Ed. You’re coming on board just as The Huckster is running out of steam.

[Paladin2b]

Rollins is no fool, and quite the bright strategist, but he has a habit of jumping on bandwagons before he does all his homework on the candidate and his inner circle.

Exhibit A is not Reagan in '84. It's Perot in '92. Rollins was convinced that Ross was The New Reagan and climbed aboard, before he realized what a paranoid loon he had signed up to support. Look at Rollins' own recollection of the Perot VP choice.

Rollins in his own memoirs recalled how Perot and his asskissers first decided that Nixon's first Secretary of State was going to get the appointment, so Rollins had to tell them that William P. Rogers was dead.

Perot's men named Stockdale as Veep nominee knowing that Stockdale had cognitive difficulties. Their reasoning was that a) they could think of no one else for the job, b) state laws usually require that presidential candidates have running mates, and c) Stockdale was absolutely subservient to Ross the Boss. Rollins had a sinking feeling when he learned Stockdale had already been diagnosed with some sort of senile dementia, but Plan B was for Stockdale to sit at home in a front porch campaign unseen since the 19th century. Stockdale was not so far gone that he would venture out and pee on the lawn, so his mental impairment should not be obvious. Then, as the election approached, the Perot team would still be discreetly interviewing for a "serious" VP. Once that person was found, then Stockdale announces he withdraws from the ticket for unspecified health reasons and the real Veep comes aboard in an October surprise.

I see a Huckabee general election campaign working along the same lines, given that we know the Huckster is notoriously thin-skinned and subject to emotional outbursts in private...a lot like Ross the Boss.