It certainly will tear the party apart, and Ed Rollins of Perot fame, sounds gleeful at the prospect. How exactly does he think Huckabee’s going to win in November without all, and I do mean all, the fiscal conservatives on board?
And yet more than one Huckabee supporter on this forum excoriates fiscal conservatives as only caring about money. No, it’s not about freedom, nor individual autonomy, not about limiting the power of government, if you’re against Huckabee you’re just a selfish money-grubber. Insulting fiscal conservatives who have principled, constitutionally-grounded reasons for opposing ever larger government is a good way to destroy the coalition that is essential to getting Republicans elected.
Some here say that Huckabee will outcharm Obama. Guess again. By the time the MSM is done, Obama will be a cheerful, upbeat, moderate, centrist, problem solver and government reformer and Huckabee will be a dangerous uber-religious demagogue who’s out to take away people’s rights.
If this primary season so far has taught us anything, it’s that the MSM still has an amazing amount of power over the electorate. I mean, honestly, McCain is up in NH? McCain?
By the time they are done heralding Obama as the source of all that’s right and good in the world and excoriating Huckabee as a dangerous religious extremist, it could be a Dem landslide.
The socons are gleeful. But the socons need the fiscons as much as the fiscons need the socons, or get used to saying, “President Obama.”
And as far as what the MSM would do with the Huckster, Susan Estrich is on record as saying he is the preferred candidate above any other repub. You bet your bippy they will label him, again right or wrong, as a religious nut one step in front of Pat Robertson.