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Posted on 05/01/2015 11:19:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The word “president” isn’t uttered here but the subject line of the e-mail from his website containing the link to this clip was “Announcement video” and there’s a countdown clock on the homepage marking the hours until Tuesday’s “event” in Arkansas. He’s in. And as announcement videos go, this one’s interesting — as much for what it doesn’t contain as what it does. It starts by playing up Huckabee’s record in remaking “Bill Clinton’s Arkansas,” signaling that he’s going to run in the primaries not only as a man who can beat the Clintons in the general but a man who has, effectively, already done it once before. That’s his answer to Scott Walker’s claim that he knows how to beat the left after having done it repeatedly in Wisconsin. That’s great, Huckabee will say. Here’s my trump card.
What’s missing from this vid, though? It’s got plenty to offer the blue-collar Republicans whom Huckabee’s targeting — promises of wage growth, a solemn vow to protect America’s unsustainable entitlements, and a little saber-rattling at ISIS and other jihadi menaces. But … not a word about gay marriage, abortion, or religious liberty. The furthest he goes is noting that he’ll “lead with moral clarity” and that comes as a lead in to foreign policy. You can see the Huckabee master strategy this time in that: His problem in 2008 was ending up pigeonholed as a one-trick evangelical pony, a guy whose southern socially conservative appeal was so narrow that he couldn’t carry it over to similar demographics who might logically be receptive to him, like Catholics.
He’s got to make his tent bigger this time to have a shot at winning, just as Romney did in 2012 after running as a social conservative champion himself in 2008. The answer is to aim for working-class righties on kitchen-table issues, knowing that he’ll have lots of chances during the campaign to show off his evangelical cred. At the very least, a Huckabee who can mobilize lower-class conservative whites into turning out is a much more attractive VP candidate than a Huckabee who can mobilize the sort of core Republican evangelical voters who’ll turn out for the eventual nominee anyway. Frankly, not to scare you, but I’d say there’s nonzero chance of a Bush/Huckabee ticket. It’s less likely than a Bush/Walker or Bush/Jindal or Bush/Martinez ticket, admittedly, but that all depends on how well Huck does. Sleep tight, conservatives!
go AWAY Huckster, no one wants you in this race!
Well, that’s four votes he’s peeled off of Cruz. Five if you count his Mom.
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*Yawn*
Huck is one of those bothersome Ghosts of Elections Past.
Just like a Poltergeist, they are mischevious and tenacious.
“We’re Back!!” say, Huckabee, Santorum, Perry, Trump, Hillary too. Don’t be shocked if by next summer brother Romney also comes to call.
Huck is a slim ball of the 1st degree, the only people on Fox I like even less are Whoreraldo, Beckel
Of course he is in! Jebster is struggling and he very much needs the Huckster to peel off as many fundamentalist Christian votes from the Conservative base as possible.
Huck is a good tool of the Establishment. He will follow orders.
Sold any pardons lately, Huckleberry?
Ugh. Talk about a bad news drop on a Friday afternoon...
yawn
dear mikie,
Stay home. Sure, there are folks/alimentary canals that will vote for you. All you will do will be to muddy the already murky waters.
He's anything but slim.
dang, my bad, Slime, there fixed it
Hey Mike!
Why would you think anybody wants to support you in this quest?
The games you played in 2008 are enough to disqualify you.
Anybody? Bueller?
Yep. That is what will happen. We have seen this movie before.
Why?
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