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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The fellow that made that vid has issued a challenge....
http://draftfredthompson.com/forums/index.php/topic,12787.0.html
Good time to sign up on the Original Fred site, draftfredthompson.com
Hee Haw!
You got that right. If you're a Huckabee supporter then I think you're a friggin' moron. You may be a very well-meaning and pious moron and I honor your religious convictions but we're electing a President here, not a Preacher-in-Chief.
Does that make me an elite? Don't think so, unless you define "elite" as anyone who is not buying Hucksterism.
It means when Huckabee fails his voters just might stay home and let you haters kiss Hillary on the lips.
Rule 1. These guys don’t take competitors as running mates. They take someone whose not been in the spotlight to hopefully mine gold, not til manure. It’ll be a party choice and it’ll probably be Rick Perry.
Our religious convictions make us pro life and pro family. Don’t get upset at us because the republican party pushed two pro abortion pro gay liberals down our throats and told us we had to choose one of them. The Huckaboom is payback for Rudy McRomney.
If Fred can pull off an upset in Iowa I’d be happy but I don’t see it happening.
Once again I note that you fail to even define what Huckabee was saying in his comment. Instead you raise the spectre of Hillary as some kind of answer. Why is it so hard for Huckabee's defenders to defend Huckabee's positions? I suspect it's because they are just as confused as Huckabee is about his actual positions, but they can't admit it.
Huckabee's policy positions read like a collection of folksy maxims strung together looking for a single coherent thought.
Donna, my apologies. I got my threads mixed up and attribute your comment to a comment from another thread. My apologies for the confusion.
Well that does it for me!!!! In all in for Fred now!!! Just Kidding!
Ensign.
Fred Thompson’s campaign just announced he’s received the endorsement of one of Iowa’s leading newspapers, the Ottumwa Courier.
Thanks for the news Leni. I’m running rather hard these days, getting ready for a show we are doing in a couple of weeks.
I appreciate the pings that help me keep a bit updated.
GO FRED!!
Huckabee has surged because he won a couple of debates and hes got evangelical support. If a quick rise can happen to the liberal pro-life evangelical Huckster, it can happen to the conservative pro-life evangelical Hunter.
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According to Intrade, the winner of the December 12th GOP debate was... Duncan Hunter.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938773/posts
Why the smart money is on Duncan Hunter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926032/posts
In this poll Hunter is up 3% and even with Paul and Thompson.
http://www.wxyz.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=3481ef60-8195-46a9-af04-b87b907bcfdd
America?
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