[2ndDivisionVet]

I didn't know Massachusetts had legalized hallucinogens. If Governors Huckabee or Christie are the answer, what in the world was the question?

[GeronL]

neither of them are any good

[Jeff Chandler]

Like a sumo match.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Because they’re both progressive RINOs?

[Zathras]

Please tell me I have a choice between a mushroom I buy at Safeway and Mike Huckabee.
Both grew up in the dark, one grew in dung the other is full of it.

[Vigilanteman]

Huck runs a reasonably entertaining TV show. But he was a terrible POTUS candidate in 2008 and wouldn't be any better in 2016.

Would I hold my nose and vote for him? Yeah, I might. Only because I did the same for McCain and Romney, two other equally poor candidates.

But I don't think I could do it for Christie.

[Paladin2]

The Huckster is persona non gratia as a POTUS.

[Ray76]

Huckawho?

[Colonel_Flagg]

Huckabee caught fire in 2008 because he was seen as a true conservative alternative in a lackluster field, and he could very well occupy the same space were he to run again.

Huckabee caught fire in 2008 because conservatives torched him.

[chopperman]

I’m all for Huckabee running. He and Christie will split the Rhino vote and make it easier for a Conservative to win the state primaries. Hopefully, the Conservative candidates will pick and choose their states.

[9YearLurker]

What an upside down analysis.

Huck is a moderate who gets by as a conservative because he suckers in the evangelical vote that might otherwise vote for a legitimate conservative.

Huck doesn’t take from Christie’s establishment vote. He helps out Christie by once again diluting the conservative vote.

A fair question would be whether he and Ben Carson are getting nudged into the race the way Cain and Bachmann, etc., were put in as decoys the last time around.

[SharpRightTurn]

Both of these prima donnas are nightmares.

[Kartographer]

You want to talk nightmares? A Huckabee/Christie makes my skin would give me permanent insomnia!!!

[Jewbacca]

I wouldn’t vote for Christie or the Huckster.

[Cicero]

I think they should get together and write a book on how to diet.

[Patton@Bastogne]

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The writer is clearly referring to election politics in the "Land of the Hobbitts" (The Shire, as I recall) ...



At best, Mike Huckabee is a "third-tier" candidate, the kind of guy (like Herman Cain) joins the primary races simply to be able to endorse a more successful candidate later on ...

... or else, like "Lil Ricky Santorum" ...

serve as a "Poodle Stalking Horse" (diversionary) candidate.



I've got news for the GOP-E guys ...

Even if they literally "murder" the other GREAT Conservative 2016 primary candidates ...

Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Teds Cruz ...

MILLIONS of Tea Party voters will STAY HOME (like they did for Willard Romney) ...

"if" that pompous ass Chris Christy is "given" the GOP 2016 Presidential nomination.



Period.



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[Diogenesis]

Just great. Two RINOs in heat chasing road kill to eat.

[SoFloFreeper]

Yeah, neither one of them trips my trigger.

I will say it again: we need someone who has been, or is now, a GOVERNOR. Preferably a two-termer.

One who has worked WITH Democrats in his or her state legislature but hasn’t necessarily buckled to their every whim.

Experience in the PRIVATE SECTOR is a big plus for me.

I know it is almost anathema to say so here on FR, but the USA would be in a whole lot better shape right now, and on the road to an economic recovery, if Mitt Romney were in the Oval Office right now instead of the Clown and his boss Valerie.

[Zhang Fei]

Maybe if they were running for President of the United States Sumo Federation.

[ObamahatesPACoal]

Did Blue Dog Democrats and Republicans kill Huckster’s tuition for illgals?

[servo1969]

Huckabee is a nice guy but an idiot.
Christie is a big government Republican city boy.