Ironduke

Among Republicans. Whoever wins the nomination has to be able to appeal to independents to win the election.

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dalem

He's a used car salesman.

-dale

troung

He is a charming guy - yet his shoving flag poles and his views on rewriting the constitution sort of well you know...

His social platform will probably scare people away. And wait until someone finds his sermons.

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I like his current immigration stance.

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troung

Who does this guy work for?

Bluesman

Obama.

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troung

Hillary or Ron Paul...

TopHatter

Dunno but it's time for a little housecleaning...

Galaxy, You seem to be stumping pretty heavily for Huckabee here.
In fact, you only seem to appear at election time.

Fine. Stick to one thread (this one) if you want preach the Gospel according to Huckabee. Thanks.

Bluesman

Anybody remember the December '03 cover of National Review that featured Howard Dean in full flight of his insanity, face contorted and gesticulating wildly? The caption was 'PLEASE nominate this man.' The hook was, of course, National Review is CONSERVATIVE, and wanted ANY Republican to win the election, so they were cheering the 'easy kill' Democrat, which was Dean.

And so it is with Huckabee: he'd see the end of the conservative movement in America. He'd have the most negative coat-tail effect in the history of American presidential politics. He'd get shellacked in fifty states, and he'd destroy the concept of the Reagan Democrat, absolutely guaranteeing that the GOP would wander the electoral wilderness for the next forty years.

He's marginally better than that lunatic Ron Paul, and that's literally the best thing I can think to say about him.

If EITHER of these two are the GOP nominee, I'm writing in Newt Gingrich. They are - and this is almost too hard to type - WORSE than anybody that has a shot at the Democratic nomination.

Huckabee is OUR 'easy kill' guy for the Democrats. You want a Hillary or Obama (or a Hillary AND Obama) landslide? Huck's the guy for YOU!

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Debbie

Howard Dean ----- I had forgot about him. Although I think most people did find he was forgetable.

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dalem

Actually, until they shut him up last year he was still a gold mine for the Republicans, as the head of the DNC.

Only smart thing the Dems've done in 4 years is put the ball gag in Dean's mouth.

-dale

Bluesman

Can't even count how many electoral votes that guy was worth to us.

I miss him.

astralis

bluesman,

i dislike huckabee too- the guy is schizo in his economic policy and a bible-thumper everywhere else- but given the number of social conservatives out there these days, would huck's candidacy really send the republicans to political wilderness that long? how do you figure?

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