Sarah Palin's Mike Huckabee problem

WaPo ^ | 6:00 AM ET, 11/23/2010 | By Aaron Blake and Felicia Sonmez

[lonestar]

The Huckabee kid apparently started taking his agressions out on food...along with the rest of the family.

[Nonstatist]

Plus, we had massive stagflation and a prolonged hostage situation. These are not easily reproducable conditions.

[Nonstatist]

Huckaboo should run. He’s got nothing else to do.

[Vigilanteman]

That's part of the problem and a part not easy to fix. Any party which closes their primary in a manner not heretofore done could be inviting the wrath of the independents in the next general election. So neither big party wants to blink first.

Ideally, unregistered people could vote in any primary, but their votes would be tabulated separately and would count only toward bragging rights and not selecting delegates. That way, they could participate without screwing up the process.

Another part of the problem is the top-loaded primary schedule. Super Tuesday pretty much sewed it up for McCain. Some of this might have been mitigated somewhat if primaries weren't overly skewed to winner-take-all. The primaries really need to be a marathon and not a sprint.

[newzjunkey]

Of “serious contenders” for the GOP nomination, Huckabee leads my “do not want” list.

[onyx]

LOL. Right, two dopes from Hope won’t do. Huckabee has ambition, but he’s got baggage that his grin and preacher talk can’t shed. He still says he’d pardon those two guys if he had the same information he had when he pardoned them. Sheesh.

[onyx]

Exactly. Huckabee can only be a spoiler or a siphon, but he would be mighty happy with VP.

[onyx]

Now, I will just have to try to remember your screen name.
I am counting on t-dude....lol.

[onyx]

They are practically negotiating in public right now.

That's how it strikes me, too!

[onyx]

Huckabee is a scam artist politician who is trying to parlay his NYC media show into connections cozy with the MSM

Right!!

[onyx]

Not Romney? Huckabee leads your do not want list?
Romney is totally unacceptable to me. He’s repulsive.
Huckabee is almost completely off my list.

[OB1kNOb]

Just remember Star Wars.....O-B-1-K-NO-B ;-)

[Eroteme]

unctuous smarm

Perfect.

You're right, it is a specialization. I cannot begin to grasp the logic or nature of the appeal, thoug. I suppose that, like slug slime, it's an acquired taste.

[ridesthemiles]

The vitriol that Huckster aimed at Mitt during the last primary cycle was waaaay beyond the pale. It was disgusting.

I don’t like either one of them.

I am not Mormon- nor Baptist.

No matter what—Huckster isn’t Presidential material.,

We already learned not to have a person who thrives on VINDICTIVE in the Oval Office.

Look long & hard at Mike Pence. Sarah. Eric Cantor & others.

[GATOR NAVY]

Not that I give Q polls any credence, but that shows that the largest portion of the polled voters don't want any of the four "front runners".

Count me in there. I don't anything to do with any of these four.

[conservative_crusader]

Fair enough. I hadn’t seen that. I suppose I should have looked it up.

[ansel12]

The vitriol that Huckster aimed at Mitt during the last primary cycle was waaaay beyond the pale. It was disgusting.

No it wasn't, I don't recall any big thing directed at Mitt "the compulsive liar" Romney.

[allmendream]

No problem.

Lots of people seem to want to believe the best about Huckabee, and they don't seem to want to know the facts if they run contrary to what they assume to be the case about him.

But Free Republic is where to go for insight and commentary on the suitability of conservative candidates.

Huckabee isn't suitable and he isn't conservative.

[ansel12]

Huckabee is going to run as a professional vote splitter.

He didn't cause any problems last time, Fred was not going to make it for long, with or without Huckabee.

[Sideshow Bob]

I don’t get that reasoning about 2008, the only guy that could be mad at Huckabee for 2008 would be Mitt Romney.

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Have you already forgotten the one candidate who could have actually won in 2008? FRED!!

Fred Thompson despises Huckabee.

Huckabee was the prime beneficiary of the James Dobson authored "Fred's not a real Christian" misinformation that torpedoed Thompson's candidacy among many evangelicals.