Posted on 12/17/2007 1:17:18 AM PST by Tlaloc
Primary season, which appears to have begun about a week after the 2004 presidential elections, is getting sillier with each passing day. This is thanks to the media, which not only feast on the season’s daily menu, but attempt to predigest it for the American people.
As fuzzy as the process of the selection of the two party’s presidential nominees appears to be, the media’s goal is as clear as day: to make it fuzzier and to influence the outcomes.
They do it by attaching great importance to a host of factors that are really meaningless, not the least of which is citing national polls to indicate the front-runners, while carefully ignoring those factors which will decide the outcome.
They know that national polls are worthless indicators of which candidates are probable winners, but that doesn’t stop them from proclaiming that the alleged winners in those polls are the front-runners in the race for their party’s nomination.
Given that false assumption, Rudy Giuliani emerges as the front-runner for the GOP nomination. Primaries, however, are not decided by national polls, they are decided by the voters in the primary states.
Giuliani may be the front-runner in national polls, but he’s barely in the race in such states as Iowa and New Hampshire — the earliest contests where victory goes a long way to indicating which candidates are the likely nominees when the dust clears. And Giuliani himself admits it, pinning his hopes on the states whose primaries come much later and among which he is popular.
When Rudy Giuliani loses in Iowa and when Rudy Giuliani loses in New Hampshire and South Carolina, his standing in the national polls will also plunge.
What is now going on is what’s been going on for decades in presidential primaries — you have all of these leakers leaking information, such as the Drudge Report’s contention that the Democrats want Mike Huckabee to win the GOP nomination because they believe he’d be the easiest Republican to beat in the general election.
Translated, that means that Huckabee really scares the pants off the Democrats, who hope they can prevent him from being the GOP nominee by persuading Republican voters from voting for someone else because Huckabee is a sure loser.
The reality here is that Americans have been electing governors to the presidency for a long time — such men as Roosevelt, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and George W. Bush; and guess what, there are only two former governors running in the GOP primaries, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee.
Based on the record, that fact alone makes either one a probable winner next November. And it’s why the Democrats and their media allies want neither man to win the GOP nomination.
Their front-runners, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, are not governors; they are United States senators, and in modern times the American people simply do not elect senators to the presidency.
Match either one against either Romney or Huckabee, and history teaches us that it’s most probable that the next occupant of the Executive Mansion in Washington will be a former occupant of a governor’s mansion in Arkansas or Massachusetts, and not a United States senator.
Given that fact, doesn’t it defy reason for the Democrats to want to run against Mike Huckabee? Today’s Democrats may be corrupt, not just a little bit slimy. And they are inherently Marxist, but they not stupid, even though Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid make them look that way.
The American people need to be informed about these simple facts, but the media are doing their best to keep the truth from them and manipulate them, especially by attaching great importance to the meaningless national polls.
Of course they want Huckster to run against. A substantial chunk of the Republican base WILL NOT vote for this liberal fraud in the general election. Ditto Romney and Rudy.
“Translated, that means that Huckabee really scares the pants off the Democrats...”
My thoughts, exactly.
conservatives who appreciate free speech cannot vote for Fred either. He spent years trying to shut it down with CFR while ignoring illegals. Every conservative in this country understood this and said it loudly, yet Thompson and McCain went full speed ahead.
Huckabee/Romney are pathetic.
Do we really need another Arkansas governor running for POTUS?.
That's not happening.
And the Huckster? A tax-and-spend, open-borders goofball? No. As American Republicans become more and more aware of that guy's record, they'll drop him like an apple with a worm in it. They're not gonna drink THAT Jesus juice.
I find it remarkable the ignorance of those complaining of his position on CFR which had everything to do with attempting to rid the corrupting influence of money in political campaigns. While he acknowledged it did not work out in the manner he had hoped, at least he was trying to do something about it. His singular focus during most of his adult life while in public service was ridding corruption from government.
As to his position on illegals, if I thought for a moment he was deficient in that area in the least, he would not have my support, period. I have to deal with those invaders about as up close and personal as they come... 20 feet away from my house. I want every last one of them gone.
What a sophmoric analysis. I do not think the Democrats are worried about Huckabee in particular. They know that the conservative base will stay home on election day if Huckabee is on the ticket. Also, if Huckabee should get the nomination than the Dems have to be happy, since that will ensure, one way or the other, that a liberal, pro-amnesty, tax and spender, who parrots DNC talking points with regard to foreign policy will get in the white house.
Judas juice.
OTOH, as we discussed elsewhere, some Democrats will vote for Huckabee rather than Hillary...as if that's any comfort.
Hey, if I were a Democrat with an eye towards having supermajorities in Congress and in state governments, I’d want the most destructive and divisive RINO President you could possibly elect. You get a two-fer: liberal legislation they sign and a Republican base going ape$hit, while they get to rake in all the benefits of increasing Dem elected officials and a Dem President after their abominable reign is over. Think it can’t happen ? It’s happened with every RINO Governor in the past two decades in umpteen states (AR; CA; CO; IL; KS; MA; NJ; NY and OH, for examples). You’ll note two of those abominations are running for President, Huckster and Precious Willard.
Good analysis. Smart money says that Romney will beat either Hillary or Obama easily.
Romney/Hunter would be far more formidable. Huckabee can go back and get the rest of that theology degree.
Smart money says Romney will lose in the primaries.
If the Republicans nominate anyone but Romney or McCain they deserve to watch Hillary nominate justices to the Supreme Court of the United States that would cause the socialists of Sweden to think “Wow, those guys are further left than we would feel comfortable with!”.
Sounds like your smart money is riding the short bus.
Count me in that chunk. No way in hell I'll cast a vote for Huckabee. That snake-oil so called preacher is faker than Pam Anderson's lady lumps.
This piece reminds me of Vizzini trying to decide which cup isn’t the poison goblet in “The Princess Bride”. Reagan outthinks himself trying to read the minds of Democrats instead of looking at Huckabee and seeing him for what he is.
I think that Huckabee would be the easiest candidate for the Dems to beat. On the other hand, he might be a good choice for VP. Whoever picks him as his VP gets instant credibility on abortion and gay rights.
Just Democrats, huh? The grip upon my wallet has been growing for the last few weeks and I cannot figure out why. It might be the class warfare rhetoric that I have been hearing from this rising Republican...which is odd for two reasons: the first one should be obvious and the second one is because my household income isn't much to begin with.
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