Benjamin Shapiro at World Net Daily has a piece on what may lay ahead for Huckabee & the GOP after the Iowa caucuses....
Here's the problem for the GOP: Huckabee's genuine Christianity and genial personality may win him the Republican nomination, but they likely won't win him the general election. If Barack Obama wins the Democratic nomination, he has as much personal charm as Huckabee. And while Huckabee's down-home style and ardent faith appeal to voters, they also make him easy for opponents to caricature him as a parochial bigot......
John McCain is old and cantankerous – but he'd make Obama look like a snot-nosed, ignorant kid fresh out of law school. Rudy Giuliani has more skeletons in his closet than Tim Burton – but his Sept. 11 image would dramatically overshadow Obama's pitiful internationalism. Mike Huckabee has a sense of humor and a winning smile – but so does Obama. And Obama has the full force of the media behind him. If Iowa highlighted the major party nominees, 2008 may be the Democrats' dream year. More....
My sentiment on Obama....
This man has evoked a passion from the voters reminiscent of JFK. The democrat turnout in Iowa was staggering! With empty promises of seeing a Utopian Never-Never Land he is mobilizing the masses of democrats and crossover voters by giving them hope. People are ignoring the fact that Obama's messages are nothing more than sound bytes, headline quips and promises of sunny days with no substance.
I am afraid if the Obama train continues to pick up steam, he very well may become President Osama. We can only hope that Hillhag bares her fangs and comes out swinging!
Regardless of whom the GOP candidate may be, barring "Please Quit Mitt," I feel much more at ease facing Hillbill than Osama in the general election.
Huckabee may very well be THE one to do it. He is America's Huckleberry (Look it up). Obama doesn't stand a snowballs chance. America will never put a Black man in the white house. Remember Ken Blackwell? Well he was only trying to get into the Governors mansion.
ReplyDeleteHi Anon - thanks for reading and commenting.
ReplyDeleteI feel it is good you are passionate about Huckabee. For me I have yet to find the candidate the evokes this passion from me. More and more it looks like McCain & Thompson that I will support.
As for your Huck - he did not do bad in the NH debate. But I did notice that he was turning into a Flipabee by changing his tune on immigration. (See post below on his first immigration stance - sd it is un Christian to not allow illegal immigrants in the country).
Now we get to Obama....
First Blacksmell is no Obama. Blacksmell did not lose the elcetion because he is a black man. He lost the election because he ran his mouth too much and his campaign was unorganized and divisive.
I urge you to look at the crowds surrounding Obama in his speeches, appearences, etc... mostly white. While his message is empty, it is a message of hope for people disenfranchised with the current state of our country and American politics. THIS is what makes him so dangerous!
The common link between Obama and Blacksmell and the reason they have got to where they are is they do not campaign on race. If you notice, race almost never enters anything they say.
These men have rose above the race politics of Je$$e Jack$on and Rev. Al Sharpton, this is why the have been to an extent successful and accepted by the American public.
Obama energizing the masses of "white" people that usually did not vote by giving them hope, will trickle down to black voters.
Black voters, that may have shied away from him thinking he is black and can't win, are now seeing that white voters have embraced Obama. This can translate into these black voters embracing Obama , thinking he can win since many in White America are supporting him.
Saying America will never put a black man in the White House ignores history. Many had these same thoughts about Stokes in his race when he BECAME the City of Cleveland Mayor. I bet they said the same thing about Blacksmell for his SOS bid, which he won.
Black candidates that don't have the "I am owed" attitude and deal with issues from a "grey" standpoint and not a black & white stand point have just a good a chnace as a white candidate.
Remember this is 2008, not 1968!