... and boy does Reason torch him to the ground over it.

http://reason.com/archives/2015/05/08/mi...didate-for

Quote:There are a number of policy fights on the center-right of American politics, but there's also a measure of ideological unanimity (even if it is often only theoretical) about the role of government—namely that it should, to some extent, be smaller and less intrusive. There is no conceivable way for Huckabee to make that argument or represent that consensus.

Huckabee is what liberals in the media imagine a strong Republican candidate might look like. I mean, what segment of the GOP will Huckabee represent? The social conservative vote is well-covered this time around. So will it be the tax hike faction? The anti-trade faction? The "we need more laws" faction? The anti-school choice faction, which believes that teachers unions are doing a great job and that No Child Left Behind was the greatest education reform effort by the federal government in our lifetime?

Yet even as Huckabee announced his candidacy for the 2016 presidential nomination and evidence began to emerge on social media that he is going to have a tough time gaining traction with any conservative group, he was getting plenty of accolades from the press. The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza found Huckabee's vacuous presidential announcement solid. He wrote about it, in a piece titled "Why the Republican Party really needs Mike Huckabee right now."

Huckabee is the right's Obama. Terrific at public speaking, and giving positive warm fuzzy talking points with zero substance. People lap it up. And just like those paying attention with Obama, it is painfully obvious what substance actually is hiding behind the rhetoric is antithetical to nearly all libertarian views and antithetical to conservative views on government size, government scope, education, debt, spending, and more.

Yes! More more more!

A huge spender and social right. The protestant version of Santorum. No thanks.

Santorum is a hard worker. I gained a lot of respect for him in the last campaign.

Please....Stop.

He's running to sell books or to raise his ratings for his next FOX News program. And his campaign is probably funded by supporters of other candidates looking to peel off votes from other right wing candidates (most likely by those who want to cut into Cruz's primary vote).

But he'll be out there, pushing his extreme agenda at the debates. And all the GOP candidates will probably be tarred by his candidacy.

Zero chance.

Bush and Huckabee, I just don't understand how either can believe they'll win the nomination much less the General Election. Huckabee might pull a Fred Thompson a beat a viable candidate in a couple of early primaries to steer the election in the direction of the candidate Huckabee wants.

Bush will be hard to defeat.

georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  Mike Huckabee is the wrong candidate......

Pass

He's a Bible Thmping Fraud that won't make it past South Carolna.

(05-10-2015 01:27 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  Bush will be hard to defeat.

Thi$. Don't undere$timate him.

(05-10-2015 08:20 PM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(05-10-2015 01:27 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  Bush will be hard to defeat.

Thi$. Don't undere$timate him.

Bush will almost certainly have the GOP establishment behind him. This group doesn't want a open primary process and destroys any candidate that challenges their pick, Buchanan in 1996, Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich in 2012, even McCain in 2000 before he was the establishment candidate in 2008. The GOP wants "the most electable" candidate not the most Republican candidate.