Posted on 12/02/2007 2:38:58 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
If the Republican Party really wanted to hold on to the White House in 2009, it's pretty clear what it would do. It would grit its teeth, swallow its doubts and nominate a ticket of John McCain for president and Mike Huckabee for vice president — and president-in-waiting.
Those two are far from front-runners. They trail Mitt Romney in Iowa and New Hampshire and lag behind Rudy Giuliani in national surveys of Republican voters. But, in a series of debates, including last week's CNN/YouTube extravaganza. McCain and Huckabee have been notable for their clarity, character and, yes, simple humanity.
From everything I have heard on the campaign trail, it's obvious that they are the pair who have earned the widest respect among the eight Republican candidates themselves. McCain is the eldest and the most honored, not only for what he endured as a Vietnam prisoner of war but as a principled battler for what he considers essential on Iraq and other national-security issues.
Huckabee, who previously was known only to those of us who cover state government and governors, has been the surprise discovery of the campaign season. His combination of religious principle, good humor, tolerance and his clear passion on education and health care complements McCain's muscular foreign policy and aversion to wasteful domestic spending.
The two of them seem often to be operating on a different — and higher — plane than the quarrelsome Giuliani and Romney, whose mutual contempt is as palpable as it is persuasive.
Fred Thompson appears perpetually grumpy — a presence hard to imagine inhabiting the Oval Office.(continued)
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When the enemy is endorsing your primary candidates, the only thing you can be sure about is that you should oppose whoever they are trying to wish on you.
McCain = Dangerous lunatic.
Prezactly!
McCain is a nutjob.
No way I’d consider voting for him.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend....
Hi friend :-)
Since when has David Broder cared a whit for the fate of the Republican Party - OR the United States of America, for that matter?
The only thing I have ever seen evidence that David Broder cares about is the survival of the “Socialist Idea”.
Mr. Broder wants a “tolerant” candidate. Grumpy old Fred is not his guy. He wants mush.
And isn’t that what all Americans want? Mush? Just a big sweetheart teddy bear in the White House. Because all of our nation’s best Presidents have been mushy. Right? Right?
haha!!!
Broder isn’t a far left editorialist by any stretch of the imagination, but he’s a bit off on this one.
What he fails to mention is that Romney was also applauded for his line about not taking tax payer money to fund illegals.
He and Huckabee are both wrong, as well, on this bill punishing children here illegally. Refusing to give illegals scholarships is not punishing them. A scholarship is a reward in and of itself. Refusing to reward does not equal punishment. It simply takes them out of the running for distinguishment.
Oh, give him some credit. Have you looked at what David Broder has written?
On Bush and Blair: “History will record that both of them saw the threat to the West posed by terrorism and responded courageously.”
“Newbies should at least put their state or country on their profile page.”
Why should I do that?
I don’t see any reason to at all, but if that’s the common thing to do, I’ll do it.
With a name like VolFan008, I think it might be kind of obvious that the odds say I’m in Tennessee. Which is indeed the case. ;)
Hello Bobalu.
The mooselimbs picked the fight I didn’t.
Amazing! But I agree, Broder does seem to have fallen from grace of late, even having nice things to say about Karl Rove. Leftists are always sensitive to what they see as betrayal, even of the merest kind.
He’s a mixed bag. He’s been friendly to Rove, apparently dined with the guy, and enjoyed his company.
He’s also been less than kind to him.
I guess better than your average reporter.
Broder knows exactly what he is doing. The only way to defeat the Democrat nominee is to go strong against illegal immigration. This is the Democrats weak side. By nominating a Republican candidate that can also be seen as being weak on immigration, that gives the Democrat a chance to win.
Aw, jeez. Another elitist afraid of losing his gardener.
McCain has always been oblivious...he is an outright snotty basta_d!.
Huck...is playing politics with the hispanics....
Neither is to be trusted......
Broder would be wise to retire. He’s out of touch with his party... the liberal Democrat of yesterday is the Marxist socialist of today... and he knows it. Maybe Broder see’s McCaniac and the Huckster as oldtime Dem’s...
Once again the ‘Dean’ has it wrong.
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