Posted on 12/26/2007 6:39:22 PM PST by MitchellC
WHEN WE PAID pundits try to provide campaign analysis, we often strain to find historical analogies. Although I'm not asking for sympathy, please understand that it's not easy. There have been only fifty-something presidential campaigns, and obviously those conducted in the horse-and-buggy era provide scant parallels to an election held in our own age of Al Gore's wondrous intertubes. Besides, every one of these things is unique.
That said, I think I've found a near perfect parallel to the Huckabee '08 campaign--Pat Buchanan in 1996. Buchanan stunned the world in 1996 when he defeated Bob Dole in New Hampshire. That result caused the Republican electorate to ask itself two questions:
1) Is Pat Buchanan really up to being president?
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And there's also Huckabee's past. Every politician has a past--issues he flip-flopped on or positions he took that his party dislikes. But Huckabee's past has caused Republicans to remember the Arkansas mores that drove us nuts during the Clinton years. Seemingly every day, another piece of, er, stuff, hits the fan. Over the weekend, it came out that Huckabee received $35,000 in honoraria in 2006 from a company that does stem cell research, the very same company that social conservatives blasted Mitt Romney over because his blind trust had invested in it. Huckabee's take of $35,000 from the stem cell researchers was but a small sliver of the roughly $378,000 in outside fees that Huckabee raked in during his final year as Arkansas' governor. Too bad he didn't have Hillary Clinton's facility with commodities trading--such a skill probably would have made things easier for Huckabee.
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Dat br'er Rabbit, he lay low...
He’s a puttin’ in that there nitros too!
I honestly don't think so. Perceptions, my friend - you have to take into account that Huckabee has been so heavily pumped up by the same folks whose only reporting on Thompson for the past month or longer has been along the lines of "This just in - Fred still lazy."
For a guy who has been completely written off to come in second or even a strong third - that's too newsworthy for even the most deranged anti-conservative folk in the media to pass up and not yammer on and on about. The inverse is true for Huckabee and possibly Mitt as well.
Oh gimme a break. He’s got 4 years left in him. But even if he doesn’t, so what? That will just make duncan hunter prez.
Hmmmmm... Now there might be a scene that plays well in SC... :)
“Huckster is about to takethe Howard Dean fall. Not soon eonough.”
C’mon Mike, just one YEEHAWWW! and go away.
Lol!
IOW, what he needs is a fawning, sycophantic press that buries his misdeeds and (character) assassinates his critics.
Huckabee’s take of $35,000 from the stem cell researchers was but a small sliver of the roughly $378,000 in outside fees that Huckabee raked in during his final year as Arkansas’ governor.
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No wonder the Arkansas governor’s salary can be so low!!
Huckabee’s take of $35,000 from the stem cell researchers was but a small sliver of the roughly $378,000 in outside fees that Huckabee raked in during his final year as Arkansas’ governor.
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No wonder the Arkansas governor’s salary can be so low!!
You should be ashamed of yourself for your disingenuous slur against Thompson. You are inventing a hypothetical situation out of sheer imagination. For shame.
Moderator, is there nothing we can do about this kind of obnoxious comment? A warning perhaps?
He has NOT had chemotherapy. You are lying.
I don’t really care what anyone says against Huckabee. He is still better than Rudy T. McRomney. It’s not my fault everyone else is so bad. I’m also disliking Republicans as much as I dislike Democrats.
“Thompson, in my opinion, is not an option because of his health and the fact that hes periodically getting intravenous chemotherapy to keep him alive.”
That’s an interesting “fact.” How often does he get these treatments? How heavy is the dosage? Such treatments are usually done for weeks or months at a time. Please provide the source of your information, as it is very important if true.
Of course, if you are just speculating (making it up), don’t bother to answer.
You know what, I really don’t want to spend any time going through your posting history trying to figure out whether or not you’re being sarcastic - but oh do I ever hope you were.
I am serious. Short enough?
Oh, and since Thompson has indolent lymphoma, which is very non-aggressive, no chemotherapy is needed to “keep him alive.” Drugs are used to treat indolent lymphoma.
http://www.elephantbiz.com/2007/04/breaking_fred_thompson_has_tre.html
Perhaps you have a link to a source that will clear all this up. I’m waiting.
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