You’re absolutely correct. The only thing that I bought from Huck in his Fox News Sunday interview is his need to reach out to the GOP establishment and the Beltway for him to win the nomination.
With Clemmons, I think the point everyone is missing is that not necessarily he is going to lose a huge amount of his base of support among evangelicals but that the GOP establishment will never embrace him now, even if Romney falters. Before Clemmons there was a slight chance that might have happened.
Instead the GOP establishment will now be holding “American idol auditions” for a dark horse to put in the bullpen as a contingency plan in case Romney cannot pick his favorables with Republicans and conservatives over time.
This is the primary reason I think Huck will not run in 2012.
Romney has already faltered. If he thinks he can use this tragic situation to his own political benefit then he is even worse a human being than I thought him to be previously.
Your post shows a lot of respect for the GOP establishment.
Where was the GOP establishment in 1978 on the question of who should be the 1980 nominee?
Any idea?
I have an idea: NOT Ronald Reagan.
Just as your post seems to say: NOT Sarah Palin.
I haven’t sent the GOP one dime in quite some time, nor will I if the best they can come up with are the loser-twins Huckabee and Romney. They are both dead to me.