Republic/RNC machine is panicked about Hucksterbee

[ruggerson]

They are now using Drudge, their official mouthpiece, to try and tear him down.

Sludge is headlining the yahoo story about Huckster wanting to quarantine AIDS patients, with the hopeful editorializing: "game change in GOP race?"

Rather ironic since the entire Republican party was the single largest impediment to AIDS research and awareness in the 80's and early 90's.

But that's another story.

If the RNC machine does NOT want Hucksterbee to win Iowa, it is because they know it will deliver a fatal blow to Romney, whom they consider more electable.

We should not be parrotting RNC memes about Huckster. Instead, we should be encouraging his inevitable win in Iowa and South Carolina.

[TwilightGardener]

1. Oh yes, let's start promoting him! Sorry, I like Romney WAYYYY more than Huckabee.

And I really don't like Romney, so that's saying something.

[ruggerson]

4. Hucksterbee is not going to be elected President

Don't you want their weakest candidate to win the nomination?

[TwilightGardener]

6. I think Romney is eminently beatable. But God forbid something happens, I

DON'T want someone who's insane and a pathological liar to win. I'd like to see either McCain, Romney or Thompson win the nom.

[ruggerson]

9. You don't think Romney is insane and a pathological liar?

Or you think that he really WAS anti choice, then pro choice and then anti choice again, all in the space of ten years?

Romney is evil personified. He will do anything and say anything to get elected. He is the perfect Republic chameleon.

[TwilightGardener]

10. I think Romney is a political opportunist. I do not think he is evil.

And I think he's perfectly sane. Same with Fred Thompson--not evil, not insane. McCain is a little bit insane, but not evil. I think Huckabee is the anti-Christ.

[ruggerson]

11. If you were a lesbian in Massachusetts

who wanted to marry your partner of many years, you might feel a bit differently about Mitt Romney.

The man is evil filth. He promised the gay community he would be the "best friend" they ever had in government and then was elected Governor and did a 180 degree about face and fought against equal rights for gays at every turn, in anticipation of his run for President.

In my book, that's evil.

[TwilightGardener]

16. None of them support gay marriage. They're all assholes in that way--

they'll all pander to various groups to get elected, and then turn their backs on their constituents to pursue their REAL agenda. That's what I expect from GOPer politicians. I reserve "evil" for a very special few. Ain't nothing special about Romney, just another two-faced Republican jerk.

[ruggerson]

20. None of them, not a single one, had to actually deal with

the reality of gay marriage. To every single other candidate, it's a hypothetical question.

For Romney, there is an actual record, as he is the only candidate who was actually serving as Governor when a state legalized same sex marriage.

His actions during that time and his overweaning desire to appeal to the most bigoted element of the Republican are a foul stench of a legacy. If he isn't evil, then the worst of the segregationists weren't either.

[AlinPA]

13. The RW evangelicals and "Christian" fundamentalists still control a lot; throw in

the issue of guns and more gay hatred and promise to cut all the taxes and he could win it.

[Warpy]

2. Still, he's going to be the nominee

He's the most affable, he's crazy as a shithouse rat and that appeals to the fundies (who were going to stay home if a more rational candidate got the nod), and he has a good enough record as governor to fool some of the GOP rank and file who don't pay close attention to much of anything else.

IMO, he's all they've got.

[Renew Deal]

8. I agree.

I think he's all they got. I think the others are sure losers, which may be what they're after in this cycle.

[Progress And Change]

3. i doubt it

The other campaigns surely had all this dirt on him through their opposition research for months. Huckabee was just not important enough for them to release it until now, which is why all these things are suddenly popping up seemingly out of the blue.

[Renew Deal]

5. I think you're correct.

I've detected this too. I think it's because he's not one of the party insiders. I also think there may be some conspiracy behind it. Something to do with picking Jeb for VP.

[Harper_is_Bush]

7. Huck or Ronmey could easily be beat by a 3rd rate Dem candidate. n/t

[BlueManDude]

12. The GOP kingmakers will eventually rally around McCain - the others are all freaks.

[Stop Cornyn]

14. How can you possibly believe that AIDS quarantine story will do anything but help Huckabee?

[AlinPA]

15. That story is "money in the bank" for Huckabee. Fits perfectly with the GOP mind.

[Stop Cornyn]

18. It's not like Huckabee was getting the Log Cabin vote anyway, and this solidifies his homophobe

support.

[AlinPA]

19. Yep, he hides his hate with that bugs bunny smile. Bible thumpers eat it up.

I'm not sure that he wont' get a lot of votes from the more moderate "Christians" who would like those folksy references about God and the bible references. e.g., I was talking to a religious (Catholic) woman who likes that stuff.

[icnorth]

17. "We should be encouraging his inevitable win.."

Go to the head of the class ruggerson. The real neo-cons give lip service to the religious right and any nuptial arrangement is purely for convenience. Huckabee is not a card carrying member of the PNAC, Rudy and Mitt are, and the PNAC is calling the plays.