I wouldn’t vote for Huck unless he were the only guy left. He will never be the only guy left. In a way, he creeps me out....can’t put my finger on it.
Congressional experience versus executive experience is a real argument. I, too, would say that a former governor has an advantage in having seen a lot in terms of a functioning miniature government. But there have been senators who have had no problem being executives.
The real clincher in this argument is Abraham Lincoln who was not a senator or a governor. Some say he had no problem being the in charge guy.
Other senators who have not been governors:
John Quincy Adams
Senator, 1803-1808
President, 1825-1829
Franklin Pierce
Senator, 1837-1842
President, 1853-1857
James Buchanan
Senator, 1834-1845
President, 1857-1861
Benjamin Harrison
Senator, 1881-1887
President, 1889-1893
Warren G. Harding
Senator, 1915-1921
President, 1921-1923
Harry S. Truman
Senator, 1935-1945
President, 1945-1953
John F. Kennedy
Senator, 1953-1960
President, 1961-1963
Lyndon B. Johnson
Senator, 1949-1961
President, 1963-1969
Richard M. Nixon
Senator, 1950-1953
President, 1969-1974
Barack Obama
Senator, 2005-2008
President, 2009- present
Nixon, LBJ and Truman had some training as former VPs. In Nixon’s case, a full eight years. In Truman’s case, a mere few months.
He creeps you out because he’s a phony - and you are not a phony - so your radar is warning you to “Stay away.....stay away.....stay away....”
And by phony, I mean certainly a phony conservative. Maybe a phony Christian, altho that’s between him and God and I would never pretend to know - I just know that the phony streak is inside of him, and I wouldn’t ever assume he’s genuine about anything. Maybe he is, but he’s yet to prove it.