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Huckabee Polls Within 7 Points of Obama??
I know, I know, I shouldn't even be posting about this. It's worthless. It's premature. It's straight-up elections porn. But I can't help it -- look at Mike Huckabee!
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Mike Huckabee Seems Like a Reasonable Dude
No, not on AIDS patients or environmentalism. He's pretty nutty on that. I mean on the importance of race,...
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What Does Mike Huckabee Have Up His Sleeve?
I suspect that good dude and total crazy person Mike Huckabee is going to be in our lives for a...
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Mike Huckabee the Candidate Has a Trouble Relationship With Mike Huckabee the Pastor
Is Mike Huckabee the presidential candidate shunning Mike Huckabee the preacher? Before entering politics, he was a pastor at two Baptist churches. Now his campaign tells Mother Jones it won't make his sermons available to the media and the public.
A new national survey from Public Policy Polling (D), already looking forward to 2012, shows President Obama ahead of four potential Republican opponents.
Obama leads Newt Gingrich 52%-39%; he's ahead of Mike Huckabee 49%-42%; he beats Sarah Palin 53%-41%; and he leads Mitt Romney 50%-39%.
Because Huckabee is someone who says reasonable, thoughtful things once in a while (unlike Gingrich and Palin, who sometimes seem like they are from a different planet), I'm happy to see that he's got the healthiest public rep right now. Those same qualities, though, likely make him the most dangerous of the bunch, politically speaking.
Huck-a-rama
Also, Huck is the only candidate polled who holds Obama under the magic 50 percent mark. Obama is a popular, incumbent President, so holding him under 50 is quite a feat. Mike Huckabee will stand a very good chance of winning Iowa again in 2012. He could very well be the candidate. And he's a very interesting choice. The GOP money guys hate him because of his populism and his refusal to worship at the altar of neo-liberal economics. But because Mike worships at a different altar, he's very popular with the base. Sure, he has said some weird things in the past. But so have most of the GOP candidates. He portrays a very folksy, down-to-earth, likeable, would-have-a-beer-with-that-guy demeanor. That works for the Republicans. Remember the folksy, fun, earnest guy from Texas who ran for President in 2000 (at least that's how the media portrayed him). He won. And he didn't have half the oratorical skills Huck has.
Likeability
It's really, really hard not to like Mike Huckabee. Even as someone who was fully aware of his religious fundamentalism, I couldn't help feeling like he was the most decent guy in the Republican primary bunch last year. Part of his appeal, I think, is that he doesn't convey the naked thirst for power that hangs off of so many other politicians, and signals a willingness to compromise on principles and renege on promises.
All of that said, I think being ruled by a minister is not something America -- all its religiosity aside -- is going to be comfortable with.
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Jonathan Stein
Huckabee
He will only be so popular until people are reminded of why they didn't vote for him in the republican primary. He was the one who said we should change the constitution to match gods laws.
I agree that Huckabee was
I agree that Huckabee was the only Repub candidate who actually seemed as if you'd like him if he were your neighbor in the last election. This was one of Obama's strengths too.
Huck would represent the destruction of the Repub coalition as Nixon and Reagan knew it. The winners of their internal warfare would be the Religious Right. Which is fair in a way because they have been the foot soldiers and voting mass of Repub victories for the past few decades.
This outcome would also make the Repubs a 'rump'--restricted to the South and a few Mid Western states.
John McC
Mike Huckabee
It's kind of fun to say his name.
I don't really care, especially at this point in the cycle, who the Republicans want to promote as the next losing candidate to President Obama.
I was hoping they'd actually let Sarah Stalin be the sacrificial
turkeylamb in 2012. That would put the Republicans at about 35 in the Senate after allowing her to have a microphone for two years of campaigning. Can't get enough of her unwittingly using Trig as a political prop for the pro-choice movement, as she keeps saying she chose to bring him to term after the news of the amniocentesis. With that choice, she proclaimed loudly that women should have a choice in the matter. If she had said she didn't feel there was a choice, that would be more in line with the pro-lifers she's trying to impress.Anyway - rant over - I think the country has had enough of the fake folksy charm of a southern aristocrat pretending to be our "beer buddy". Mike Huckabee has volumes of idiotic statements that will once again rise up to embarrass his campaign.
No worries for Democrats in 2012.
Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. Thomas Jefferson 6/11/1807
Jon/Nick
I recently attended a lecture series where I heard Huck live for the first time. He was very impressive for all the reasons you state. At the end of the evening, I thought I could be quite comfortable with this man in the Whitehouse.
He is promoting an idea I have wanted for some time...abolishing the IRS and the mountains of tax code. Our country, both businesses and individuals, spends $600 billion per year doing taxes and trying to comply with the tax code. For what?
Huck supports an economist who figured out a national consumption tax (sales tax) could replace the entire system. Almost all states already have the infrastructure in place to collect the tax. Europe and Canada already collect a federal sales tax. Consumption taxes tax everyone, including those that operate quite well in the underground and black economies of drugs, prostitution, extortion, and theft.
Of course, this would do away with corporate taxes...but who are we kidding? Business taxes become part of the cost for their goods and services... WE pay their taxes in higher prices.
And why shouldn't pimps and pushers pay taxes?
Huck
Huckabee, any way you shake or bake him, is a nut case like his base! I could hope for no better opponent, save for Palin, Romney, or Gingrich. If the repubs can't do any better than that, the party is out for 2012. They will need to raise one and that can take a few years. Ask the demo's. They had to raise Obama!
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