[C. Edmund Wright]

Let me translate the Huckster for you:
“This is the start of my 2016 Iowa Caucus campaign - because in the oddball little Iowa caucus population, which is teeny tiny by the way, fully 30% of them will vote for whoever makes the most extreme statements on social issues, regardless of how pathetic they are on all other issues. I got that 30% in 08 and Santorum got them in 12, and now I have to beat Santorum to them in 16.”

[Servant of the Cross]

Huckaphony: “This is the start of my 2016 Iowa Caucus campaign - because in the oddball little Iowa caucus population, which is teeny tiny by the way, fully 30% of them will vote for whoever makes the most extreme statements on social issues, regardless of how pathetic they are on all other issues. I got that 30% in 08 and Santorum got them in 12, and now I have to beat Santorum to them in 16.”

Ding. Ding. Ding. We have a winner.

[Bettyprob]

God, ain’t that the truth. Whose idea was it to give the few thousand voters that make up about 30% of the GOP Iowa Caucus so much sway? Huckabee, Pat Robertson, Santorum...they keep voting for these total losers, and giving them relevance for no reason other than they vote before everyone else.

[lonevoice]

Let me translate the Huckster for you: “This is the start of my 2016 Iowa Caucus campaign - because in the oddball little Iowa caucus population, which is teeny tiny by the way, fully 30% of them will vote for whoever makes the most extreme statements on social issues, regardless of how pathetic they are on all other issues. I got that 30% in 08 and Santorum got them in 12, and now I have to beat Santorum to them in 16.”

Well done. Besides, if Huckleberry actually meant anything he said, then he would endorse Senator Cruz and stay out of the primaries to avoid vote-splitting with Huckleberry's always-committed southern evangelical supporters. But he won't, because he doesn't. He's a self-serving moron, a useful idiot for the party of Rove to try to force Jeb Bush on us.

[Boogieman]

Bingo.

[Yashcheritsiy]

“This is the start of my 2016 Iowa Caucus campaign - because in the oddball little Iowa caucus population, which is teeny tiny by the way, fully 30% of them will vote for whoever makes the most extreme statements on social issues, regardless of how pathetic they are on all other issues. I got that 30% in 08 and Santorum got them in 12, and now I have to beat Santorum to them in 16.”

Well, it's not as if the GOP has had that good of a track record on fiscal or constitutional issues, either. So it's not just the "SoCon warriors" who are starting to get disenchanted with them...

[xzins]

These are the 2 issues on which Huck has always been right. They are what make him a social conservative.

However, he’s been very wrong on amnesty and social spending. They are what make him a Rino.

There’s just something about him, though, on those issues that trouble me. I really think he’ll go with whichever way the wind blows on welfare and amnesty.

I do agree with him on this part, though. If the republicans endorse abortion and gay marriage, I am bound by my faith in God NOT to be a part of such an organization.