Huckabee Quick Hits
April 14, 2008 8:34 pm 2008 Race, Huckabee, NewsThere are a few interesting stories with a Huckabee angle.
First of all, Congressman John Campbell (R-CA) (really a good guy in Congress) has created a fund where people who feel they aren’t being taxed enough. This should sound familiar as Huckabee did the same thing in 2001 while Governor of Arkansas. Campbell, at least calls it the “Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is Act.” However, the Wall Street Journal headlines the story, “The Tax Me More Act.” The name of Huckabee’s fund in Arkansas, “The Tax Me More Fund.” I’m not certain if Campbell is using Huckabee’s idea without attribution but with the Wall Street Journal’s Headline, it should merit some credit to the originator of the idea.
Secondly, John Hawkins of Right Wing News did a poll of the right side of the blogosphere. You’ll recall a recent poll showed Huckabee an 18-15% favorite for the VP Spot in a national poll over Mitt Romney. Hawkins right-of center sample of bloggers chose Mitt Romney. This isn’t a huge deal because it’s within the margin of error nationally. However, Huckabee didn’t even show up with the minimum amount of votes to qualify for standing (5 points) and topped the list of least desired Vice-Presidential candidates. Here are the results in Reverse order from #15-#1:
15) Tom Ridge: Former Governor, Pennsylvania (5.0)
14) Tommy Franks: Former General (5.0)
13) Tim Pawlenty: Governor, Minnesota (5.5)
12) Rudy Giuliani: Former Mayor, New York (7.0)
11) Newt Gingrich: Former Congressman, Georgia (7.5)
10) Elizabeth Dole: Senator, North Carolina (7.5)
9) Mel Martinez: Senator, Florida (10.0)
Condi Rice: Secretary of State (16.5)
7) Christie Todd Whitman: Former Governor, New Jersey (19.5)
6) Joe Lieberman: Senator, Connecticut (19.5)
5) Charlie Crist: Governor, Florida (20.0)
4) Colin Powell: Former Secretary of State (23.0)
3) Jeb Bush: Former Governor, Florida (23.5)
2) Lindsey Graham: Senator, South Carolina (26.5)
1) Mike Huckabee: Former Governor, Arkansas (42)
First of all, I don’t know what Tommy Franks did get on somebody’s naughty list. However, among elite conservative bloggers, a McCain-Huckabee ticket would be worse than a ticket with a pro-choicer on it (McCain-Ridge/McCain-Giuliani/McCain-Rice/McCain-Whitman, McCain-Powell), a Democrat (also pro-choice) (McCain-Lieberman), an illegible candidate (McCain-Martinez), and McCain’s co-leader in pushing for amnesty while attacking all amnesty opponents as bigots (McCain-Graham.) It’s shocking, really. Let’s no longer call this group, the rightosphere, let us call them instead the out-of-touchosphere. If there’s a been a reason for good cultural conservative to start and build strong blogs, this is exhibit A.
April 14th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
I’m not shocked. The so-called conservative radio and television talk show hosts are the same way. They would sooner support a one-term wonder, flip-flopper who could not even come in second place in the states that are the most conservative than a proven social and fiscal conservative like Mike Huckabee.
They go around spouting great myths of illogic about how being a successful business person equates to understanding the economy. Nevermind that while Mike Huckabee was admonishing Republicans about the current downturn in the economy, Mitt Romney kept saying everything was AOK.
Perhaps it makes sense that bloggers who are out of touch with conservative voters would support a guy who is out of touch with the average citizen.