Obama-Huckabee would be the most lopsided loss for Republicans in 2 generations. It would be over for Huck within 10 days of the convention, with the media spinning the Christian Leader nonsense into visions of an incipient American Theocracy.

But at least we’ll be clear on whom to blame.

Huckabee/Thompson defeats Obama/Edwards in November 2008.

Ed’s probably supporting Clinton because she always leaves the paper bags of nonconsecutive hundreds in the same place.

I do have to say this for him, though — when we had the Amish school shootings last year, he explicitly told everyone at a presser that he didn’t think legislation could stop that sort of thing. I was surprised at the restraint, given everything else he’s said about guns.

The Huckester won’t even give up his primary bid, I doubt he would surrender the Presidency after only four years.

JayHaw Phrenzie on February 12, 2008 at 5:05 PM

You didn’t read what I said. Here it is again, with one addition that improves (not changes) what I said before:

Huckabee/Thompson win in 2008. Michael Steele is given a cabinet position.

For 2012, Fred realizes that he won’t run for president in 2016, so he steps aside so that Huckabee/Steele win in 2012.

In November 2016, say hello to President-Elect Michael Steele

REPUBLICANS USED TO like black people….

It’s utterly amazing that he’s basically saying if you don’t vote for Obama, you’re racist.

Well, no, as I think has been argued elsewhere in this thread, he’s for Clinton. He actually endorsed her, so that’s that.

As for the constant Huckabee drumbeat I’ve started to hear from a certain poster, Elmer Gantry has no shot, I don’t care if you take the whole bottle of red pills.

Insult your constituents into voting for the guy you didn’t endorse, by making them feel like racists if they don’t.

Come on folks? Why are you all so afraid of Obama? Yes, his message of Hope and Change has connected with voters. So will Huckabee’s message of Hope and Change. Obama is a paper tiger. His choice of Edwards for VP will go along with his “Most Liberal Voting Record in the Senate”.

While race has been a factor in the Democrat primaries (rascists!), it won’t hurt Huckabee in the general election.

Why not?

Ask yourself what percentage of the black vote the Republican party typically gets in a general election. And as for whites, it was explained above that many whites on the Democrat side appear to be voting for Hillary privately, but claiming to support Obama publicly. Expect the same in the general election.

One more piece of the puzzle…
Huckabee/Thompson defeats Obama/Edwards this November.
Do you see it yet?

Post-Gazette
“You’ve got conservative whites here, and I think there are some whites who are probably not ready to vote for an African-American candidate,” he said bluntly. Our eyes only met briefly, perhaps because the governor wante…

Meanwhile, a former governor with ten-and-a-half years of executive branch experience (we tend to elect governors, not senators, because governors have executive branch experience, while senators generally have only legislative branch experience), who was selected by his peers to be the Chairman of the National Governor’s Association, who was honored by TIME Magazine as one of the five best Governors in America, a fiscal conservative who cut taxes almost 100 times in the state of Arkansas (including the state’s first broad-based tax cuts, and turned a $200 million deficit into an $850 million surplus), goes to the general election preaching a message of “Hope” and “Change” with specific, written commitments of what he will change (like completing the border fence by July 1, 2010). And he has written not just one (1) but nine (9) Hope-filled books. Heck, the man was even born and raised in Hope (Hope, Arkansas).

(By the way, Bill Clinton may have been born in Hope, but he was raised in Hot Springs…Clinton called himself “The Man From Hope”, but his Presidency revealed that he was really “The Man From Hot Springs”, now didn’t it?)

You are looking at another former Governor of Arkansas who will serve 2 terms as President. Except this former Governor of Arkansas will win by not only getting over 50% of the electoral college vote, but also actually getting more than 50% of the popular vote (unlike Clinton’s pathetic 40-something percent that Clinton got twice).

Huckabee/Thompson defeats Obama/Edwards this November.
Do you have enough pieces of the puzzle yet to see the “Big Picture”?

This election will do a lot to help destroy the BillyJeff “Clinton Legacy” and the HillRod “Clinton Destiny”. Including the eventual replacement of Ruth Bader Ginsberg. The Clintons are livid. And some of you RINOs voted for Hillary today. Laughable. But thanks for doing that, because that was one less vote for Juan McCain.

For the record, I’m not a racist, I just tell it like it is, and I refer back to something I said on another thread where I pointed out that John McCain ought not to pick a female or minority as a running mate, one because it will make him look like Johnny-come-lately, but also because humans are creatures of habit, and John McCain ought to give Americans the chance to vote for the two white males.

Yeah, Americans have only had that option in every other election. My heart goes out to all those non-racists who long for an all white ticket. Maybe you’re not a racist, but that remark resembles racism.

To be brutally honest, his race is an issue for me. Not because I am racist, but because I have no faith in his integrity. Having him in the OO would, I strongly suspect, be an irresistable crack in the door; every race-baiting, grievance-mongering freak out there would be clamouring for presidential attention.

LimeyGeek on February 12, 2008 at 3:50 PM

What makes him more susceptible to pandering than any other politician? You say you are not racist, but the only factor to which you attribute your fears is his race. What you said pretty much echoes the same prejudicial expectations of whites when some neighborhoods became integrated.

If Obama wins, it will be like cockroaches invading the Oval Office. White people, RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!

It’s sad. I consider my party to be the party of values. But I can see that running against a black candidate will test the bounds of many Republicans’ self-proclaimed righteousness.

I predict I will hear or read this statement several thousand times over the next year, “I’m not racist, but…”

He’s also bought and paid for by Gamesa, the Spanish wind energy giant. Mark my words, if he loses on his Billary bet, he’ll resurface as a senior executive with Gamesa.

Which is one more reason to believe that
Huckabee/Thompson defeat Obama/Edwards in November

ITookTheRedPill on February 12, 2008 at 6:01 PM

You must have posted that same comment a thousand times by now. OK so we know your predictions. Give it a rest.

…and other Democrat?

You took the wrong pill, pardner.

Huck will be out of the race shortly.

McCain, I’m praying, will commit a fatal political faux pas and be asked by the party to leave the race, and then Romney can ride in and restart his campaign and take McCain’s delegates and win the convention.

Huck is too small for the Oval Office.

Better suited for selling fried squirrel fritters in a 4-H tent in Hot Springs.

I won’t vote for an empty suit, no matter what color it is.

profitsbeard on February 12, 2008 at 5:59 PM

You, and other sane Democrats. Which is one more reason to believe that
Huckabee/Thompson defeat Obama/Edwards in November

Well, one important factor is the youth vote. They vote in the primary, but they’re far from dependable in the general. Obama takes a majority of that vote.

amerpundit on February 12, 2008 at 3:41 PM

So if the youth vote in the primary for Obama, helping make him the candidate, but the youth aren’t that dependable in the general, what does that mean?

It means it’s one more reason to believe that
Huckabee/Thompson defeat Obama/Edwards in November

kcd on February 12, 2008 at 5:11 PM

But who are you supporting right now?
Huckabee, Juan McCain, Clinton, or Obama?

(You must pick one. Picking “Stay at home” = Obama)

brtex on February 12, 2008 at 5:23 PM

Nailed it. Welcome to the Matrix world of the MSM.

Take the red pill and leave the Matrix.