Important safety tip for GOP candidates: You are not going to win primary voters by attacking the Bush administration. Huckabee is already over.
agreed. And the fact that the nickname “huckster” is so easy and starting to stick, ain’t helping his cause either.
Important safety tip for GOP candidates: You are not going to win primary voters by attacking the Bush administration. Huckabee is already over.
Huckabee, and his so last century ‘strategists’ seem to be on the same wavelength as the NYTimes, in believing that aligning with a Bush position is ridiculously partisan.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/20/washington/20mukasey.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
‘Strong Bush Advocate’
From the New York Times, via James Taranto in OpinionJournal.com:
Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey has signaled in his first weeks on the job that he intends to be a forceful advocate for some of President Bush’s most controversial antiterrorism policies, even if that means angering Congressional leaders who hoped that he would instead focus on repairing the strained relationship between the Justice Department and Capitol Hill.
In what was billed as a major policy speech on Wednesday to a panel of the American Bar Association, Mr. Mukasey suggested that lawmakers who opposed legislation before Congress to broaden eavesdropping powers—and to offer legal protection for telephone utilities that cooperate—were undermining the ability to deal with terrorist threats.
“We’ve seen what happens when terrorists go undetected,” he said. “We have to do everything possible within the law to prevent terrorists from translating their warped beliefs into action. To stop them, we have to know their intentions, and one of the best ways to do that is by intercepting their communications.”
The headline for this Times piece reads, “Mukasey Signals He’ll Be a Strong Bush Advocate.” Yet The Wall Street Journal reports that Mukasey has “issued guidelines aimed at limiting contacts between the White House and the Justice Department, seeking to overcome allegations of political interference that dogged his predecessor, Alberto Gonzales.”
In institutional terms, then, it would seem Mukasey is anything but “a strong Bush advocate.” But the Times seems to have conflated the nation’s interests with those of President Bush. Unless you favor making it easier for terrorists to attack America, in this view, you’re a “Bush advocate.”
I hope so.
That depends on the issue of the attack. To attack the current administration on the border should enhance the attacker to conservatives.
The scary thing is that I don’t think the message about Huckabee is getting out fast enough. Many evangelicals will vote for him, just because he is a minister, without seriously examining his liberal, Clintonesque record.