WHY WHY WHY are people falling for the Huckster? Is it really JUST because he’s an SBC minister? Is it the fact that he does, admittedly, talk a good game if you ignore his gaffes? What is it?
I wonder the same thing.
I’ve learned that politicians are at least as prone as the rest of us to misspeaking and making intemperate verbal outbursts. I don’t believe anything they say unless I hear it from the candidate himself (not operatives) at least three times. Huckabee unfortunately speaks at an intellectually more sophisticated level than most Americans but apparently lacks much to say. Part of the problem occurs because Huckabee continues to develop positions on issues of national and global importance and still lacks an adequate understanding of international affairs. He yet can develop such an understanding with adequate speed though voracious reading and deep thought, but time is not on his side.
As an idiot-American, I cannot determine definitively what Huckabee meant with this “joke” or whether he intended what he meant or meant what he intended. This statement moreover clearly doesn’t indicate anything substantiative but rather apparently just critiques the style and mood of an intra-partisan competitor. It’s particularly difficult to dig through the fluff with Huckabee, but Republicans won with bloviator Warren Gamaliel Harding in 1920, so don’t blow off Huckabee yet.
Huckabee has the evangelical vote locked up. It doesn't matter what he says, because there is a huge emotional attachment on the part of his supporters.
Can you imagine the outcry if Romney had said the same thing about McCain? Yet McCain gets away with his snarky personal attacks without a whimper from the MSM.
Those who support Huckabee must be in favor of larger government. He is a nanny-statist just like any Democrat. A national ban on public smoking? C'mon folks, wake up!
Rush Limbaugh said it yesterday— you can’t talk people out of an emotional attachment. People who support Huckabee identify with him. Logic and facts are not significant to people like that. He’s a “Christian” like me so he must be the best candidate, etc.
Did you know that Huckabee was a PR man for a televangelist? (I forget which one.) Ugh!