The Media Elite vs. Mike Huckabee
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee is now the front runner in the Republican Presidential contest and will probably be sworn in as president of the United States in January 2008.
I make this bold prediction because the media elite has marked Mr. Huckabee for destruction. National liberal propaganda outlets like ABC News are running stories about a rapist whose parole Huckabee helped arrange, who later raped and killed two women. Bloggers have branded Huckabee, an ordained Baptist pastor (just like Al Gore) a religious nut and a far more dangerous fanatic than Bin Laden.
So why is the liberal elite so afraid of Huckabee? Mainly because he will probably win both the Republican primary and the presidential election. Instead of crowning Queen Hillary liberals will face four more years of conservative Republican administration.
Huckabee is a friendly, personable, down earth folksy old school politician from Arkansas with a lot of Southern charm (sounds like a certain Democrat who came out of nowhere to win big in 1992). Like Clinton, Huckabee is a moderate and a conciliator who brings people together. Huckabee is against abortion but he’s also come out in favor of tax increases, balanced budgets and universal healthcare. He’ll be popular and possibly an effective president.
The media liberals know that Huckabee is an effective candidate with little money he’s knocked out the Republican front runners. Huckabee is a conservative populist with the common touch, the kind of candidate the Democrats can’t beat. The Democrats want the Republicans to run an old school country club moderate like Giuliani or Bob Dole the kind of person they can beat. When the Republicans ran guys like that in 1992 and 1996 they lost, when they ran a folksy populist in 2000 and 2008 they won. Huckabee is a folksy populist like Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
History is also on Huckabee’s side in another way, all of the men elected president since 1964 have either come from the West or the South. Huckabee is from Arkansas, Giuliani is from New York, Romney from Massachusetts, Hillary from New York by way of Illinois. Obama who knows where he’s from but in my mind anybody who moved from Hawaii to Chicago has a serious deficit in the brain department. Unlike Hillary, Huckabee stayed down home with his people that will count for a lot out in the red states.
Huckabee is also a governor, no US Senator has been elected President since John F. Kennedy back in 1960 and he barely squeaked in. Every President elected since 1976, except George H.W. Bush has been a former governor. The two times a former Vice President faced off against a former governor, the former governor won. There was an exception in 1988 when Bush I beat Mike Dukakis but Bush I was from Texas and Dukakis from Massachusetts.
Finally, Huckabee has the Religious Right on his side, he can and will mobilize the values voters. Bush won in 2004 because the Religious Right deployed its armies, large numbers of cultural conservatives came out to vote many of them against gay marriage. A similar strategy could carry Huckabee to the White House in 2008, the cultural conservatives will need to find an issue to energize the people in the pews but I’m sure Karl Rove will think of something.
So it looks like Huckabee will be the next president of the United States unless the media elite figures out a way to destroy him.
I make this bold prediction because the media elite has marked Mr. Huckabee for destruction. National liberal propaganda outlets like ABC News are running stories about a rapist whose parole Huckabee helped arrange, who later raped and killed two women. Bloggers have branded Huckabee, an ordained Baptist pastor (just like Al Gore) a religious nut and a far more dangerous fanatic than Bin Laden.
So why is the liberal elite so afraid of Huckabee? Mainly because he will probably win both the Republican primary and the presidential election. Instead of crowning Queen Hillary liberals will face four more years of conservative Republican administration.
Huckabee is a friendly, personable, down earth folksy old school politician from Arkansas with a lot of Southern charm (sounds like a certain Democrat who came out of nowhere to win big in 1992). Like Clinton, Huckabee is a moderate and a conciliator who brings people together. Huckabee is against abortion but he’s also come out in favor of tax increases, balanced budgets and universal healthcare. He’ll be popular and possibly an effective president.
The media liberals know that Huckabee is an effective candidate with little money he’s knocked out the Republican front runners. Huckabee is a conservative populist with the common touch, the kind of candidate the Democrats can’t beat. The Democrats want the Republicans to run an old school country club moderate like Giuliani or Bob Dole the kind of person they can beat. When the Republicans ran guys like that in 1992 and 1996 they lost, when they ran a folksy populist in 2000 and 2008 they won. Huckabee is a folksy populist like Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
History is also on Huckabee’s side in another way, all of the men elected president since 1964 have either come from the West or the South. Huckabee is from Arkansas, Giuliani is from New York, Romney from Massachusetts, Hillary from New York by way of Illinois. Obama who knows where he’s from but in my mind anybody who moved from Hawaii to Chicago has a serious deficit in the brain department. Unlike Hillary, Huckabee stayed down home with his people that will count for a lot out in the red states.
Huckabee is also a governor, no US Senator has been elected President since John F. Kennedy back in 1960 and he barely squeaked in. Every President elected since 1976, except George H.W. Bush has been a former governor. The two times a former Vice President faced off against a former governor, the former governor won. There was an exception in 1988 when Bush I beat Mike Dukakis but Bush I was from Texas and Dukakis from Massachusetts.
Finally, Huckabee has the Religious Right on his side, he can and will mobilize the values voters. Bush won in 2004 because the Religious Right deployed its armies, large numbers of cultural conservatives came out to vote many of them against gay marriage. A similar strategy could carry Huckabee to the White House in 2008, the cultural conservatives will need to find an issue to energize the people in the pews but I’m sure Karl Rove will think of something.
So it looks like Huckabee will be the next president of the United States unless the media elite figures out a way to destroy him.
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