“These two guys have as much relevance as two homeless guys fighting over a cardboard box.”
I’m afraid you are very wrong. The hucksters fans are loud and donate! He will run in 2012, insuring the conservative base is split and we’ll get another Rino... And before the huckster fans start... No I won’t support the huckster, he is a Rino with a bible in his hand.
I believe it was Huckabee who cost Thompson votes in S. Carolina and other southern states that could possibly have given Thompson the nomination instead of McCain. McCain won S. Carolina because the conservative votes were divided between Huckabee and Thompson. Huckabee came in 2nd and Thompson came in 3rd.
We should bet a case of cheap beer on this one. (I'm retired and Obomination is probably going to hit me for another 5 percent)
I know many Huck supporters who are crazy about Palin. He may be very surprised in 2012 if she runs.
I'd put it a different way. He's a social conservative, but a liberal on core conservative issues of individual liberty & freedom and limited government (i.e. socialist tendencies). Unfortunately, without limited government and individual liberty as [for now] guaranteed in the Bill of Rights, social policy is irrelevant. These separate "wings" of "conservatism" are often at odds with one another, and one of the reasons why the Repub party is where it's at today. We need to focus first & foremost on someone who is a limited government, individual liberty conservative, and put the secondary emphasis on social policy, or we're doomed for a perpetual split, continued liberal domination, and loss of both.
Yes, you nailed him. The Huckster.