Deplorable Campaigning [Mark R. Levin]
Mike Huckabee: “Many of us who have been Republicans out of conviction . . . the social conservatives,” he told reporters, “were welcomed in the party as long as we sort of kept our place, but Lord help us if we ever stood forward and said we would actually like to lead the party.” More here.
Huckabee continues to use his faith as a weapon against those who question not his faith, but his political populism — much of which he shares with secular progressives. And he is clearly hoping to stir up resentment among Evangelical Christians against the other elements of the conservative movement and Republican Party as a way of encouraging them to vote in the caucuses and primaries. This is a tactic right out of Saul Alinsky’s playbook. Of course he wants us to believe the Reagan coalition is dead because he cannot win with it intact. But he cannot win either the nomination or presidency with the narrow focus of his appeal. This is why I find Mike Huckabee’s tactics and candidacy so deplorable.
I guess they don’t like to get called on their b*llshit.
Ayatollah Huckabee is a scary man. He makes Bush seem like a liberal. There is no doubt that a Huckabee presidency would set a theocratic tone – he has even talked about using the office of president as “a bully pulpit”. His ravings on the subject of gay marriage make clear that he is no friend of the LGBT community.
true, but that is not really why NRO opposes him.
I love it.
When the mainline conservatives write Huckabee out of the party, he has two choices – run on a third party ticket or go home. In the first case, he takes away the most numerous group in the conservative coalition. In the second case he has opened those voters to voting for a Democrat who offers a populist plank.
The coming recession is going to make it very likely that one or the other will happen.
So the NRO is squealing. No surprise – stuck pigs often squeal. They are stuck good and thoroughly. The Reagan Revolution is over.