The Huckabee boomlet?
Monday August 13, 2007
Categories: Republicans
TNR's Noam Scheiber, reporting from the Ames straw poll, says that Mike Huckabee was prolly the real winner of the thing. Excerpt: Whatever the case, it's hard to overstate the significance of Huckabee's performance here. Combined, Huckabee and Brownback--the field's...
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????Maybe it's just me, but of all the candidates of either party, the only ones who indicate that they'd be fun just to sit around and drink beer and eat ribs with are Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee.
No, sadly, it isn't just you.
What is it with the national obsession of wanting a President who would be fun to have a beer and BBQ? I want the most competent person available to be the President, not the one who seems like they'd be the most fun to drink with.
Yes, dang it, most of the US seems to vote for leaders based on likability. That doesn't make doing so a good idea.
Did I say I wanted to vote for the guy I'd prefer to drink beer with?
The really interesting aspect of this is that Huckabee spent almost nothing ($58 a vote, according to the news shows this morning) compared to the millions that Romney poured into his "win."
Huckabee is likable, but I also give him points for competency as a governor.
Podhoretz is spot-on about the Iowa Straw Poll. Remember Phil Gramm's "big" win at the straw poll 12 years ago? NR put him on their next cover extolling his resurgent campaign. Uh-huh.
There is a lot to like about Mike Huckabee as a candidate but I can't vote for him when I keep hearing story and story of his surrogates in Iowa blasting Brownback for his Catholicism. Huckabee needs to denounce this behavior and disassociate himself from those responsible.
Oh well, at least he probably doesn't eat green jello. That goes terrible with beer.
Just don't think I could vote for someone, likeable or not, who doesn't believe in evolution.
Don't think I could vote for someone who is a "creationist" either, but Huckabee does impress me as far more authentic and likable than the incredibly telegenic Mitt Romney.
I dunno. It will help raise Huckabee's profile, which should be good for fundraising. But I have to agree that the straw poll is pretty well meaningless otherwise. It's essentially a beauty contest where the contestants buy their own judges.
Anybody who would stoop to drinking beer with me doesn't deserve to be president. IJS.
"OTOH, JPod lifts his head from the pages of Christian Hunter & Angler long enough to weigh in on the non-significance of Ames:
I hate to be nasty, but anybody who takes the Ames Straw Poll results seriously is an idiot."
This is not true. Podhoretz is very busy putting finishing touches on a second edition of his brilliant opus, Bush Country: How Dubya Became a Great President (www.amazon.com/Bush-Country-Century-While-Driving-Liberals/dp/0312324731).
Could a total moron who wrote that book call anyone an idiot?
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