SeekAndFind: “Many could not forgive him for his clemency controversies when he was governor of Arkansas.”
That wasn’t his only problem, but he’s a decent man. I don’t think he’d make a good president. That wasn’t my point.
My point was all the ridicule here, even some using cornpone (folksy, countrified, down-home) as an insult. Since when is being cornpone a bad thing? Country folks, and I’m not one, can be some of the most moral and conservative types around. Why do some FReepers burn bridges where none need burned? Seriously, let’s say Huckabee IS our next presidential nominee. I bet some FReepers would sit THAT election out, too, letting Shrillary win for example.
I sometimes talk about Presidential Politics on two tracks.
There is who COULD be elected, or WILL be elected vs who SHOULD be elected. Many times that is totally different.
I think Huckabee is the kind of guy who could win if tings were really really bad. Now, many of us THINK its really bad, but the reality presented on TV is not one of a depression or recession.
He has that folksy, calming Preacher thing down, but I don’t think that is where the 2016 battlefield terrain lies. Unless we have another crash like 2008...which is possible....its going to be more of a shake up election on the right. That isn’t Huckabee’s thing IMO. The left will probably nominate the you know who, which is a status quo.
The GOP, unless Jeb Bush comes round, will seem “new”. I would literally pay to see Hillary debate Rand Paul or Ted Cruz. The others? eh.