Wow! Remember the Dean scream? Here’s the Huckabee version. He’s smiling and looks OK but you can tell that his brain has melted down to goo. Listen at around 9 minutes where he starts talking about who’s behind whom and what’s ahead. You think you know what he means to say but he sure doesn’t say it!
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Huckabee Meltdown
Sunday, January 6th, 2008Huckabee Scaring the Bejeezus out of Republicans
Friday, January 4th, 2008The big wheels in the Republican Party got a scary wake up call yesterday. Huckabee’s win in Iowa makes the possibility his nomination as their candidate a little too real for comfort. So long as they stay members of the House of Representatives or governors of unimportant states, the party is glad to throw a few crumbs to the Evangelical Christian politicians in their party. But when they start knocking on the doors of real power it’s time to release the hounds.
While the true believers are heralding this as a sign that the Republican Party will at last be theirs, the Republican machine wants to shut Huckabee down. When Giuliani started to implode at the end of 2007 the leaders in the party were horrified to see Huckabee of all people start to rise in the vacuum left. Rich Lowry of the National Review and Nachama Soloveichik, spokeswoman for the Club for Growth, have both been speaking out against Huckabee since December. Hell, they’ve even dusted off Bob Dole to give him a go at the Huckster.
What the Evangelicals don’t get is that the party only wants them for their votes. They don’t even want their money; they get plenty from their corporate masters. All that they want from the Christians is for them to show up on Election Day, vote for the anti-abortion party then go home and shut-up. But now that Huckabee, the first real evangelical with a real shot at the candidacy, is suddenly really real they’re scared.
Don’t get me wrong, the idea of a Huckabee administration scares the bejeezus out of me, too. But a Huckabee nomination? Well, that’s a different story altogether. Huckabee winning the nomination would virtually lock in any of the three Deomocratic front runners. It would also signal the end of Republican Party as we know it and perhaps altogether. With Huckabee in the race the Bloomberg third party run that we’ve been hearing about would be assured and the corporate wing of the Republican Party would flock to his side. All the horrors and delights of a split ticket would then ensue.
But, as lovely as that sounds it’s not going to happen. The GOP will come to its senses before they crown Huckabee. My prediction? I see McCain as the man standing when the dust settles.