Huckabee is doing well in straw polls, although it’s still an uphill climb for him. I don’t know why some conservatives don’t think Huckabee can beat Hillary. Hillary is a very vulnerable candidate. Baggage from the past. High negatives. A naturally strident and icy demeanor.
I’d add that the gender gap cuts both ways. She’s a living parody of the loud, pot-tossing wife in hair curlers who lords it over her hen-pecked husband. The Battleaxe-in-Chief.
Bill and Hillary deserve each other. We don’t.
Incidentally, she could learn a thing or two from Maggie Thatcher and Benazir Bhutto about how to wield power without losing the feminine touch.
She has to forfeit a high percentage of the electorate right of the top, since many have said that under no circumstances would they ever vote for her.
Hillary is not a people person. She doesn’t like people, and it shows. She uses people as a ladder to scramble to the top, then kick it aside. Power is her aphrodisiac.
By contrast, Huckabee is warm and witty. Unlike Bush, Huckabee is very articulate. Like Reagan, he puts a smile on conservatism. As a man of the working class, he connects with a lot of voters on the bread-and-butter issues.
As candidates go, I don’t think we could do much better, although we could do a whole lot worse.
Steve writes:
ReplyDelete"Huckabee is doing well in straw polls, although it’s still an uphill climb for him. I don’t know why some conservatives don’t think Huckabee can beat Hillary. Hillary is a very vulnerable candidate. Baggage from the past. High negatives. A naturally strident and icy demeanor."
I agree. If Huckabee improves significantly in the polling, he'd be preferable to the candidates who are currently leading in the polls (including Thompson, who I'm presently supporting).
As much as I hate to say it, I believe Hillary will win in 2008. I don't want that to be the case for obvious reasons but it appears to me that the liberal media, Hollywood, and most of America is embracing Hillary as the first female President even before the elections take place.
ReplyDelete"Battleaxe-In-Chief" - I love that one. Gotta remember it.
ReplyDeleteCan't say that I am all that excited about any of the GOP potentials in this race, Huckabee included. Fred Thompson came out like the Great White Hope, but doesn't seem to have much to offer. I think it will boil down to choosing the Republican most likely to be able to win the general election, just to keep the likes of Hillary and Obama Hussein out of the Oval Office.
Thank God that He is sovereign.