Two other reasons the author left out:
1. Auditioning for VP. If Biden hadn’t run earlier, he wouldn’t have been on the radar.
2. Practice run for later. Huckabee’s odds in 2008 weren’t great. He did well enough to be labeled “front-runner” this time around.
The way this reads, it looks like just an excuse for Kurtz to single out our roster and slam them as dunces and fools. The bottom line is that our weakest candidates like Bolton and Pence still have a far better shot against this garbage in the WH.
Kurtz should examine how his party got stuck with such a loser and what are they going to do about it before the primary.
We know who we are voting for and it’s up to them to find out after the new conservative POTUS takes office.
Let them try to divide us all they want.
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Howie here is making some great points. As much as I love many of the personages here-- he is right on target about most of these things.
I learned a hard lesson back in 1996. I was a Phil Gramm guy. I stuffed envelopes and did fund raising calls for his campaign in downtown D.C. after working night shifts. He was everything that I wanted in a possible President.
But his campaign, well funded as it was, went nowhere. And mind you, Phil Gramm was a bigger name than Mike Pence or John Thune.
In our hyperactive 24/7 media environment, charisma and stage presence are HUGH. Being solid on policy issues is simply not enough. A great candidate communicates those ideas to people in terms that can be grasped by them. Ronaldus Magnus was not called The Great Communicator for nothing.
(Yes, Obama's image makers Communicate well too-- they just lie about what he really believes.)
In a land where an empty suit socialist like obama can get elected everyone has a shot............
The whole point of the article, I think, is to conflate Sarah Palin with the pool of long-shot, no-way-in-hell candidates. It is an illusion. As other posters have said, all she needs to do is announce, and this becomes a whole different deal.
All I know is I want Chris Christie to be the White House Press Secretary. I would like to see juan mccain appointed to secretary of something just so he could be fired. Ditto for huckabee.