The End of the Huckabee Campaign
December 1, 2009
This will kill his hopes of ever being president.
And frankly, given this pretty lame blame-shifting response to the whole thing, it probably should. He sounds like a weaselly politician, pretty reminiscent of a certain other Arkansas governor, quite frankly, and I’m pretty disappointed in Huck on this one; pretty disappointed.
The Porpoise-Driven Life
December 9, 2008
Don found this one; tip of the Wahoos’ cap to ye!
Sad thing is that the hermeneutical silliness portrayed in this hilarious video isn’t far off the mark at all from some of the stuff we’ve seen out there.
Does Mike Huckabee Know When to Leave?
February 27, 2008
Here’s a fitting final post on the courageous campaign of Mike Huckabee, who gave the nomination a run that few pundits thought he would. Given Huck’s great sense of humor, I thought this would be a good one to end on:
Should Huck Drop Out?
February 14, 2008
This article presents both sides of the issue:
I really can see a good argument both ways. I hope that, if Huck stays in, he maintains quite the respectful approach toward McCain that he has thus far, recognizing that conservatives need to come together in November to defeat socialism.
Is There Still A Chance?
February 9, 2008
Kansas, Convincingly to Huckabee
From a guy polling at one percent 6 months ago, to the last of two men standing in the Republican field (OK, OK, Ron Paul is still “standing”), Mike Huckabee has come a long ways. And now, when just about everybody has handed the thing to McCain (yeah, me included), Huck scores his most impressive triumph. I wrote an opinion a couple of months back that the thing would come down to Rudy Giuliani and a conservative alternative, Huck or Flip Flopney. OK, so I was wrong about Rudy, but McCain is playing the Rudy character now, the moderate-conservative to Huck’s more solid conservative credentials (despite what Rush, et al, say).
Could it be? Is there still a chance?
Stranger things have happened…
On Why McCain/Huckabee Instead of Flip Flopney
February 9, 2008
These posts are dated by five days; sorry, I’ve been away on an emergency, and they are pre-Flopney flip-flopping one last time, deciding to pull out after he’d said he’d stay in (kind of fitting, isn’t it, for ole Flip?). But here are two great posts from Joe Carter that you need to read. The first talks reality about John McCain and Mike Huckabee:
Voter-Based Reality: Reflections on Super Tuesday
The second is an extensive treatise on why those who were pining for Flip were not dealing in reality when it comes to his record:
As I see it, the conservative pundits and some of the Religious Right (Dobson) have really made just about total monkeys of themselves in this campaign, and all so needlessly. Aside from Mike Huckabee, there was only one real trustworthy conservative in this race (well, I’m not counting Duncan Hunter—who endorsed Huck, by the way, prior to Flip’s final flip-flop—and Sam Brownback, who left the race during the Mesozoic), and it was Fred Thompson. Even Half-Dead Fred sponsored McCain/Feingold, so he had a chink or two in his own armor, but yeah, OK, he was a conservative. Treating Flip like a real conservative never, ever made any sense; he never got traction with voters (as Joe points out), who I think saw him as a too-perfect patrician politician (the John Kerry of Republicanism, and that analogy goes a long way if you think about it). He’s not substantively very different from John McCain, and at least with McCain, you pretty much know where he stands, even if you don’t like it; his finger isn’t generally in the wind, as is Flip’s.
Mike Huckabee almost certainly will not win the nomination (despite my continued support for him, and this overly-optimistic assessment.) And thus it’s time for us to circle the wagons, swallow hard, and do what it takes to beat the Socialists come November.
This phrase comes from the 1978 "Jonestown massacre" in which most members of the Peoples Temple cult, blindly following their leader Jim Jones, committed suicide by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.
Osborne: A Contrarian's Guide to Knowing God
Schlossberg: Idols For Destruction
