Posted on 01/04/2008 7:09:20 AM PST by .cnI redruM
True. But he's got one shot left in his own gun, and that's SC, where his numbers currently are just as bad, and Huck's are just as good. If Fred can't win SC, say buh-bye.
True that. CNN kept him on life support. Not even Lou Dobbs and Wolf Blitzer would be stupid enough to make that mistake twice.
Who wrote this tripe?
IF Obama gets the Socialist [Dims] Party nod it is a certainty that his middle name will never be uttered by the MSM.
However the fact that a candidate named OBAMA can be elected 8 years after 911 is surreal!!
Which is why it's been so stupid that Republicans have been rooting for him to be nominated.
Hillary will never concede - she will have to be forcibly ejected!
The Republican Party is a coalition of various factions. There's the libertarians, the Federalists, the free-enterprisers, the Constitutionalists, the supporters of self-defense rights, and last but not least, the Social Conservatives/Christians/Evangelicals. Many people are simultaneously members of two or more factions. Broadly speaking, the factions can be abstracted into two: Anti-socialists and Social Conservatives.
A socially liberal GOP Presidential nominee who favors abortion-oon-demand and gay marriage would so alienate the social conservatives that they would at best stay home on election day. A more likely result would be the destruction of the Republican Party as we know it (think of the Whigs in 1860.)
A socialist GOP Presidential nominee who favors progressive tax and spending policies would so alienate the anti-socialists that they would at best stay home on election day. A more likely result would be the destruction of the Republican Party as we know it (think of the Whigs in 1860.)
Mike Huckabee is a socialist. So he is anathema to the anti-socialist factions of the GOP. If he becomes the GOP nominee, the GOP coalition disintegrates. It's that simple.
I’m not sure if Huckabee’s win forced the whole party to the left, but I think that Huckabee’s win gave Rudy a boost nationally.
There are a whole lot of Republicans out there who would vote for anyone who could win, not just beat Hillary, but first beat Huckabee and McCain. The Iowa Republicans may have inadvertantly given Giuliani a boost.
That having been said, Rudy lost significantly last night. Just saying “I didn’t try!” doesn’t excuse a loss to Ron Paul by more than 5%. Rudy has to come up big (at least a 2nd place) in either NH or MI or he won’t be alive when Florida, NY,NJ and CA roll around.
I heard on FOX that Rudy is still ahead nationally and a rejection by the Iowa voters is seen as a plus, rather than a negative. That’s not exactly what they said, but that was the idea.
I guess we really still don’t know. 2 months ago, Mitt Romney didn’t see last night coming.
Hopefully, over the next two months the rest of the voters will take a closer look at Huckabee’s stance on issues, rather than his self-proclaimed Christianity. I can’t see the majority of Republicans being taken in by his “do unto to others” rhetoric, but the success of the mega churches scares a lot.
This from the WSJ Opinion Journal:
But one wonders whether his newfound supporters would really say that if they took a close look at his policies. With increasing frequency, Mr. Huckabee invokes his faith when advocating greater government involvement in just about every aspect of American life. In doing so, Mr. Huckabee has actually answered the prayers of the religious left.
Hunter may yet surprise us even before New Hampshire. Because he has campaigned in Wyoming, which has a race before New Hampshire, and no one else is campaigning there.
Wyoming to Hold Overlooked GOP Caucus Before New Hampshire
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1947693/posts
Then there’s New Hampshire. Hunter’s already there while everyone else wraps up in Iowa.
Tancredo tried that strategy, throwing his own supporters under the bus and falling in with Romney. Today he realizes it was a poor move.
Tancredo sees loss in Huckabee winhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1948252/posts
Huckabee has surged because he won a couple of debates and he’s 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.
Thompson’s January Dropout contract went up about 25 points last night after Iowa.
DROPOUT.JAN08.(F)THOMPSON
Fred Thompson to drop out of 2008 Presidential race on/before 31 Jan 2008 M 40.0 98.9 60.0 103 +24.8
If Fred drops out, the support would finally go to Hunter. He’s more conservative than Fred anyways.
Um...someone who has looked at Huckabee’s record for about 3 minutes?
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