Huckabee releasing S.C. team

>> I am thinking the same thing. Daniels won re-election in 2008 in Indiana where Obama and everything else Democrat won, the party insiders know this. <<

I believe that was the kind of thinking that lead to Alf Landon being the GOP nominee for POTUS in 1936. He had re-elected governor in 1934 – the only Republican governor in the nation to be re-elected that year – when everything else had gone Democrat, and his home state of Kansas had voted for FDR in 1932.

It turned out Landon's personal popularity as Kansas Governor didn't translate to votes nationwide, as he only won 2 states in his presidential campaign, and neither of 'em were Kansas.

"Daniels won re-election in 2008 in Indiana where Obama and everything else Democrat won, the party insiders know this."

I'm not sure what you're saying here. Are you referring specifically to IN, where our fearless Emperor only received a plurality of the vote, or Daniels was the only incumbent GOP Governor to win ? If you mean the latter, well, there were three other GOP incumbent Governors who won besides Daniels, including Jim Douglas of VT, John Hoeven of ND (now Senator) and the execrable RINO (C)Huntsman of UT.

"I believe that was the kind of thinking that lead to Alf Landon being the GOP nominee for POTUS in 1936. He had re-elected governor in 1934 – the only Republican governor in the nation to be re-elected that year – when everything else had gone Democrat, and his home state of Kansas had voted for FDR in 1932."

Although Landon was reelected to a second, two-year term, you forgot the marquee race of the year in California in 1934. While Frank Merriam had not been elected to the Governorship formally (he won the Lt Gov race in 1930), he was the defending GOP incumbent against Socialist/Democrat Upton Sinclair, for which he prevailed. Ironically, Merriam would lose reelection in the good GOP year of 1938 to a Sinclairite Socialist/Democrat disciple, the horrid Culbert Olson.

Republicans also won 4 additional Governorships in 1934, the upset victory in Maryland of Harry Nice over incumbent Democrat Albert Ritchie; Frank Fitzgerald in Michigan for an open seat after the Democrats defeated their incumbent Governor in the primary; the legendary Styles Bridges in NH (who then opted to run for the Senate in 1936 where he served until his death a quarter century later); and Charles Manley Smith of VT.

One unusual fact, however, about these 6 men was that 3 of them would die by 1941 (Smith just months after the expiration of his term in 1937, Fitzgerald in early 1939 after he lost and then recovered the MI Governorship, and Nice in 1941). Frank Merriam was probably excused from running in 1936 on account of his age (71), for which he was a whopping 17 years older than FDR. Ironically, Merriam would've had no problem serving 2 terms, as he ended up outliving FDR by a whole decade, dying just short of 90 in 1955. Bridges was the "baby" of the group, he would've been just 38 in 1936, and as I stated, lived to 1961 (dying at the relatively young age of 63, which was the same age FDR died at -- had he lived to be as old as Merriam, he might very well have remained in the Senate until 1979 or 1985, and he was a good, solid Conservative, too). Of course, Landon outlived them all, to the age of 100, dying in 1987 and an astonishing half-century past his ill-fated campaign, and long enough to see his daughter Nancy win and serve almost a decade in the Senate.

Are you talking about Herman Cain accidently, or on purpose because he joked about being a ‘dark’ horse candidate?

LOL. No, I wasn't talking about Cain when I said "colorful", I was thinking of Bachmann.

I'm not a big fan of the Fair Tax, more a flat tax guy. But I like Cain. If only by process of elimination he's one of the better candidates.

Right now he's a big longshot, he's gonna need to increase his visibility.

This is very good news, because as I've said here over and over, he has VERY strong support in the Tea Party because of the "Fair Tax" issue.

Moreover, I think it's more evidence of the point I've made for weeks: the issue is OBAMA, and if you don't have the guts or personality to go after HIM, you won't win. Trump is the model on tactics and style. I don't say copy Trump's positions, but anyone who has a hope of winning in the GOP better figure out that it is Trump's approach that is the winning ticket. Attack Obama, attack Obama, attack Obama. Forget "policies," forget wonk-talk about Medicare. Attack Obama.

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