Huckabee’s media honeymoon will end the day after he secures the republican nomination. After that he will be relentlessly attacked (fairly and unfairly) as an ignorant bible thumping Elmer Gantry demagogic hick, out of his depth and unsuitable for national office, a divider, not a uniter, etc. It will be ugly and many conservatives Limbaugh, Coulter, National Review, etc will not lift a finger to help him
It is inconceivably that Huckleberry will carry a state outside of Dixie. He hacked off too many Mormans with his religious bigotry to win UT or ID. He won’t carry VA, FL, GA, TX. He might carry AR, OK, AL, MS but I wouldn’t bet on it.
Bottom line Huckabee will be an electoral disaster. He is our Howard Dean and the democrats best chance for 60 seats in the senate.
“It is inconceivable that Huckleberry will carry a state outside of Dixie. He hacked off too many Mormans with his religious bigotry to win UT or ID. He won’t carry VA, FL, GA, TX. He might carry AR, OK, AL, MS but I wouldn’t bet on it.”
We may or may not get to find out, but if Huckabee is the nominee, I’ll bet my ranch — having lived in Idaho for 20 years — that he’ll win both Idaho and Utah in excess of 60 percent of the vote.
And all those fiscal conservatives (of which I certainly am one) and Rush and Ann and everybody else you mention will do exactly what they expect social conservatives to do every cycle even when the nominee is less than totally satisfactory, which is vote Republican rather than allow the Democrats to win.
It’s amusing, frankly, now that the shoe might be on the other foot. If Rudy were the nominee, I’m guessing you’d be lecturing social conservatives that they have no other choice since it’d be even worse to sit on the sidelines and let Hillary get elected.
Well, remember that if Huckabee gets nominated.
But your detachment from reality is slightly less evident given that you no longer claim Huckabee wouldn’t win a single state.