New ads: Mitt calls Huck soft on crime, Huck wishes you a Merry Christmas
posted at 2:10 pm on December 17, 2007 by Allahpundit
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“[N]o matter how the presidential campaign turns out, I’d watch a Mike Huckabee Christmas Special,” says Geraghty, pronouncing the ad “brilliant.” I wouldn’t go that far, but it’s darned shrewd — above the fray, oozing sincerity as only Huck can, and naturally replete with a name-check of JC to remind his supporters why they’re voting for him.
As for what that mean Mitt Romney’s up to, click the image below to watch. Yammering on at Christmas about pardoning convicted killers! Really, Mitt.
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‘Are you tired of all those commercials? Well here is another one.’
Limerick on December 17, 2007 at 2:15 PM
Huck maybe wrong on the issues, but he isn’t politically tone-deaf.
Spirit of 1776 on December 17, 2007 at 2:15 PM
Limerick on December 17, 2007 at 2:15 PM
Lol, that was my thought too when it first started!
Spirit of 1776 on December 17, 2007 at 2:15 PM
good ad
zane on December 17, 2007 at 2:17 PM
I thank God that I don’t live in or near one of the early primary states. I’d be about ready for the funny farm if I had to slog through all of these.
Number 2 on December 17, 2007 at 2:19 PM
Huck: “Tired of the politics?…Pull aside from all of that.”
translation: Pay no attention to what anyone say about me, until after the primary.
PowWow on December 17, 2007 at 2:29 PM
Dittoes :)
Mitt’s ad is pretty good but now Huck will complain that he’s a third grade tattletale again. Anyway, Mitt should come back with an ad featuring the Mormon Tabernacle Choir singing Christmas carols. Maybe flash a few photos of them with Ronald Reagan.
Buy Danish on December 17, 2007 at 2:30 PM
I gotta think a candidate scores more points with “nice” in the couple weeks before Christmas. After all, there’s a whole 10 months of concentrated political “nasty” to look forward in 2008.
highhopes on December 17, 2007 at 2:32 PM
Huck reminds me of a real insincere Mister Rogers.
He’s another smooth talker from Arkansas…way too slick in his soft delivery. Smarmy.
mylegsareswollen on December 17, 2007 at 2:32 PM
If Ron Paul was half as shrewd he could be the nominee. The GOP seems to have learned from 1964.
Theworldisnotenough on December 17, 2007 at 2:33 PM
Huckabee is not soft on crime.
Not if the crime is being Mormon anyway.
MB4 on December 17, 2007 at 2:37 PM
You might be right, but if he were more shrewd then he wouldn’t be Ron Paul and he wouldn’t have the original appeal he did. I think his success is his failure. Meaning he drew attention to himself by his anti-war policy, which in itself would be different, but he coaches it in inflammatory language – ‘American Empire’, etc. So he got a lot of attention from the anti-war crowd, but the rhetoric that propelled him will prevent him from a broader appeal, especially among voters who consider national honor to be an issue.
Spirit of 1776 on December 17, 2007 at 2:42 PM
I’m listening to Rush right now, and he just had a caller who said he supported Huckabee because Huck doesn’t believe in evolution. When Rush asked the caller if he knew anything about Huck’s actual positions, the caller didn’t have a clue.
Just throwing that out there.
Enrique on December 17, 2007 at 2:46 PM
I wonder how much of Ron Paul’s appeal is that he can be manipulated. Seems that he frequently has no idea what his supporters are doing and no control of his campaign.
bnelson44 on December 17, 2007 at 2:47 PM
I’m listening to Rush right now, and he just had a caller who said he supported Huckabee because Huck doesn’t believe in evolution.
mylegsareswollen on December 17, 2007 at 2:52 PM
Mike Huckabee on Evolution
bnelson44 on December 17, 2007 at 2:55 PM
It might be healthy for the part if Rudy or Huck wins.
Both will lose in the general (Rudy becuase the evangelicals will stomp off in a snit and Huck because he simply can’t win by being Mr. Religion) and we will finally have the split between the religious right and the EconConservatives.
Let’s bring the split to a head and let the Democrats run things for a while.
mylegsareswollen on December 17, 2007 at 2:57 PM
Maybe, but that seems counterintuitive to me. Part of his appeal is that he has ‘never’ compromised on big government issues or wasn’t manipulated by Bush as the Dems, esp HC, are fond of claiming.
Spirit of 1776 on December 17, 2007 at 3:04 PM
Huck will respond to Mitt by engaging in more subtle but effective Mormon-baiting, and any of his supporters thinking about straying off his reservation will come running right back.
thirteen28 on December 17, 2007 at 3:08 PM
But he has never met his money bomb designer, nor knows what he is doing until he does it. Paul also didn’t know what Truthers were doing to him, and still doesn’t seem to get it. I get the distinct impression he is just riding a wave and feeling great about it. If that is true, there will be a time he will have to pay the piper.
bnelson44 on December 17, 2007 at 3:09 PM
I was listening to Rush too, and I heard a very entertaining caller compare Huck to Burt Lancaster in the Flim Flam Man.
Are you sure it’s not your brain that’s swollen?
Buy Danish on December 17, 2007 at 3:13 PM
Sure, but it fits the motif. Let the people do what the people want to do to express their desire as long as it doesn’t infringe on others civil rights and not all things need to be under central authority, directed from a titular head. No biggie.
Spirit of 1776 on December 17, 2007 at 3:18 PM
Geraghty must have a strong stomach… comes from covering campaigns full time I guess.
I dont think there is a GOP candidate in living memory that I have taken such a visceral and primal HATRED TO as I have for Huckabee.
I lasted all of 5 seconds in his new ad. Thats all the schmaltzy BS I could take. He makes me SICK. I even last a few seconds longer watching a Hillary ad.
Its not that he is evangelical. Its that he OOZES SLEAZE and INSINCERITY. To me.
This whole Huck “surge” has me seriously rethinking the sanity of the entire Republican base. Seriously.
Always Right on December 17, 2007 at 3:23 PM
The constitution established a president to be a lot more than a figure head. Anyway, it doesn’t look like Ron Paul has control of this campaign.
bnelson44 on December 17, 2007 at 3:29 PM
Geraghty thinks a guitar is a piano. Weird.
DaveS on December 17, 2007 at 3:49 PM
He doesn’t have control over the grassroots part, and that’s fine! There is no problem with that whatsoever. If anything it shows how we’ve come full-circle, there was a time when candidates didn’t do any campaigning personally.
Look, everyone has the right to peaceable assemble to petition their government for grievances. This is merely an extension of that. People believe in something bigger than themselves and give their money to it. That doesn’t need to be directed by Paul himself. It’s like someone queried the other day if the blimp was a violation of campaign, the mere question speaks of the absurdity of the question: process for process’s sake.
I’d also say, lets assume a significant percentage of his supporters are truthers, just for kicks. Which do you deem better? That they should engage the system by the system through the system, or they should become anarchists and/or revolutionaries? This is why I don’t favor, as Bryan put in comments to his post this morning, calling him or his supporters ‘cranks’ or as some like ‘morons’. Whatever the realities are, there are a large group of disaffected people out there looking to make a change through the ballot box. Whatever the errors of judgment/understanding/vision, certainly they deserve appreciation for the manner in which they vent their frustrations.
Spirit of 1776 on December 17, 2007 at 3:58 PM
To me its between Fred and Huck… Thompson/Huckabee 08 would be fine with me….If youthink Huck in insincere.. then your sicerity meter needs recalibration….. 2 people I will not vote for .. Romney or Hillary…
Rudy- No passion & not really a conservative(mildly shady)
Romney- you dont change your views on abortion at age 50… if your pro life just say so.
McCain- at least he believes his own BS
Huck – Sincere/compassionate(could pull some dem’s)
Thompson- he aint takin no sh*t… and he’s doing things his own way.. and has a healthy contempt for Libs
Paul-(he’s Ron paul) ’nuff said
Tancredo- great on immigration… but thats not enough
Hunter-not enough fire..
Dems…. Biden….maybe…but only if he’s runnin against Ron Paul
DarianCounts on December 17, 2007 at 4:05 PM
The only reason I know Huckabee isnt Jimmy Carter reincarnate is that Jimmy is still alive.
Labamigo on December 17, 2007 at 4:19 PM
Huck looks like Mr. Rogers.
Topsecretk9 on December 17, 2007 at 4:24 PM
The reason I don’t believe Huck’s sincerity is because his words do not corroborate with reality.
FloatingRock on December 17, 2007 at 4:26 PM
Drudge is making hay over the floating cross in the Huck ad.
Valiant on December 17, 2007 at 5:15 PM
Kinda silly. After all it is a Christmas card ad
bnelson44 on December 17, 2007 at 6:08 PM
Why not? Many people do. Many people have, especially with the re-infusion of the issue into national politics through the needle of stem cell research debates. My mother changed for primarily that reason. Why is it impossible for Mitt to have changed for the same reasons she did?
It seems to me that you are assuming a fact that is not yet in evidence.
Zetterson on December 17, 2007 at 6:22 PM
I saw that earlier. Much ado about nothing, it seems to me. Sometimes, a window is just a window.
Slublog on December 17, 2007 at 7:35 PM
My sincerity meter is just fine. It was set at the factory and is running within .001 percent of specifications.
I used it to try to get a reading on The High Reverend Huckster and nothing whatsoever registered.
I thought there could be a malfunction, so I tested it on a rock and also got nothing. I then tested it on Bill Clinton and got a positive reading. Very small but clearly discernible.
MB4 on December 17, 2007 at 8:06 PM
This guy is from the Bill Clinton school of sincerity.
I pegged Clinton from the first day I heard him….this guy is from the same mold.
Bank it.
mylegsareswollen on December 17, 2007 at 10:08 PM
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I’m not sure and wouldn’t be surprised if the subliminal message is intentional. Might show up in a political textbook someday.
Tzetzes on December 18, 2007 at 3:11 AM
Just a coincidence my a$$!!!
That thing was floating around like a ghost before you realize it’s the window. Vote for Huck and GO TO HEAVEN.
tommylotto on December 18, 2007 at 7:58 AM
Wow. “Two pro-life governors…” Romney specifically ran in Mass as a pro-choice governor. He may be running as a pro-life Prez, but that is not what he was as governor.
clghitis on December 18, 2007 at 12:17 PM
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