[byteback]

So Huck complains about McCain-Feingold and then complains that his contributers can’t contribute? Huck/Edwards would be the best populist ticket. Two Americas....zzzzzzzz

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Huckabee said, “Americans benefit when their government has policies that make it so people who are running small businesses and people who are working in jobs in factories keep those jobs.”

Unions and protectionism. They sound like winners to me!

[samtheman]

I think Huckashuck is aware of all the criticism of him coming from the conservative community and, like Hillary, he is “finding his voice”.

[gpapa]

Huck Would One-Up McCain-Feingold: http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MGNkMmU4YmFkYzMxNDE1ZGEyMTE0ZTBmMzMwNDUyMDY=

[txlurker]

Huckabee said, “Americans benefit when their government has policies that make it so people who are running small businesses and people who are working in jobs in factories keep those jobs.”

I wonder how this fits in with his rejection of immigration reform? Seems to me if you work on getting all the illegals out of the US the jobs will be there. I notice he isn't talking about that at all.

[NautiNurse]

Asked about the debate tomorrow, Huckabee said his “plan” is to stay positive...

Would be a remarkable change from his daily campaign whining.

[the808bass]

And there are few ways for members of the media to assess what his ground game is in the state.

Although Huckabee has been in Florida every day since Monday, he’s been holding mostly closed press events. This poses two scenarios – that nothing is going on and the campaign doesn’t want journalists to report about it. Or that something is happening and they don’t want the national media to know.

It's the former. He's never attracted anything but the evangelicals and only about 50% or less of those. If you look at likely voters in Florida, take the percentage of evangelicals and divide them by 2, you'll get Huck's numbers.

So, there's nothing going on in Florida. He has virtually (if not in reality) no staff in Florida and he's depending on the grass-roots network (read: politically-active churches) to get out the vote for him.

Even if he could commit the same number of Common Sense Issues phone calls to the state that he did in South Carolina (1 Million), it would not have nearly the effect. There's no Fred to attack, and many of the voters are more socially moderate than South Carolina. He can't attack McCain as he still has sugar-plum-fairy dreams of Veep. He can't raise any money of consequence from his grassroots network of churches and his rich donors can only give money for his push-polling.

Dead campaign walking. So long, Huck. We knew you all too well.

[NavVet]

“Nobody is going to be able to say I’m not a true conservative. Duncan Hunter is a conservative’s conservative.”

Well, I guess I’m “Nobody” because the Huckster is not a true conservative. Also, love the way he complains about campaign finance reform then complains that people are still allowed to donate to 527’s. (In other words, he wants to shut up groups like “club for growth”, much like McCain shut up the Wisconsin National Right to Life)

[Eric Blair 2084]

Bud Light presents:

"REAL MEN OF GENIUS"

...(Real men of genius)

Today we salute you, Mr. Mike Huckabee paid FR campaign shill!

...(Mr. Mike Huckabee paid FR campaign shill)

What does a liberal Republican do when he is afraid to face grass roots conservatives himself? He pays his coffee and errand boy minimum wage to do it for him

...(skim milk with three sweet and lows)

Sitting in a cubicle at campaign headquarters you search Conservative websites like the NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Salon, CNN and Daily Kos looking for favorable articles about the Huckster to post on FR

...(oooh, here's one from DU!)

Armed with nothing but talking points from Hucks' website, you attempt to convince conservatives that your candidate is not a Christian socialist or a pro-life Democrat

...(Jesus would want amnesty for illegals)

When FReepers say Huck is a fiscal liberal, algore loving environmental wacko, open border amnesty pusher, violent criminal pardoner, Jimmy Carter foreign policy appeaser, nanny state smoker banner you provide the brilliant original response...a link to his campaign website

...(copy, paste, copy, paste)

Conservatives? We don't need no stinkin' Conservatives!

...(Highly overrated)

All we need is a leftist who is pro-life, has an R next to his name, and talks about Jesus.

...(Praise the Lord!)

So crack open an ice cold Bud Light, oh Karl Rove of the blogosphere, because when a FReeper runs for office, we'll be calling you...

...(Mr. Mike Huckabee paid FR campaign shill)

Bud Light beer. Anheuser-Busch, St. Louis, Missouri.

[livius]

MCain Finegold is a true disaster that virtually guarantees that the wealthiest (independently wealthy, that is) candidate wins. If you’ve ever worked with a local political club, you’ll know exactly how insane it is and how it essentially seals off the political process to ordinary people, making it even more incomprehensible to and removed from the citizens.

I wish it could be overturned.