Since I'm guessing a lot of Huckabee supporters are in the Rush demographic, this would seem to be unwise. After all, what happens if the dittoheads stop ditto-ing? Limbaugh must assume he is now more powerful than God.
Naturally, the hard liners are pleased. Hmmm hmmmm hmmmm. I don't really care who they pick because at the end of the day, they're not going to be able to pick a candidate that will get everyone marching in lockstep as that exemplary (choose whichever sense you wish) Republican George W. Bush was able to do.
Jim Geraghty: "Rush is on fire." I'd say, "Some of us wish," but that would be unkind.
The only conservative I regularly read is Michael van der Galien, who at least is sane, possibly because he doesn't live in America.
A while ago an unnamed Huckabee aide in DC criticized conservative talk radio show host Rush Limbaugh. Obviously, no one expects him to stay quiet after such criticism so, those who can, listened to his show today....
Limbaugh didn’t disappoint us:
“I’ve never called him a Huckster, I’ve called his fans Hucksters.”
Rush points out Rollins ran the Christie Todd Whitman campaign, calling him the “DC-Manhattan Axis campaign manager.”
“Stop with this Clintonian spin.”
“McCain’s starting to look better to than this guy, and that’s saying something.”
“The Huckabee campaign is trying to dumb down conservatism in order to get it to conform with his record.”
That last one is quite witty actually. (PoliGazette)(quoting Geraghty's liveblog)
Is it? The "wit" of conservatives such as Limbaugh is an elusive, and therefore doubtless a precious thing. The only conservative who really amuses me is P.J. O'Rourke.
Perhaps it takes practice to find amusement in Limbaugh's brand of humor. Van der Galien asks the key question:
Meanwhile, I can’t help but wonder how this is going to play out in the next couple of weeks and months. If Huckabee wins the nomination, how can he unite the party? And, if he doesn’t win the nomination, won’t his supporters feel that the Republican Party wants their votes, but not their voices / candidates?
If so, will they rally behind the person who does win the nomination? You can’t blame them if they won’t. (PoliGazette)
One of PoliGazette's commenters finds Huckabee "Clintonesce" (sic).
Little Malkin blathers a bit about this "knuckle-headed" move by Huckabee's minions. I have said it before, she writes like your Great-Aunt Minnie. But she DOES have a page badge with a picture of Huck saying, "I Hucked Up!" which is pretty good going, and much funnier than anything Limbaugh said.
I believe this Rush-bashing incident may turn out to be Huckabee’s Howard Dean scream moment.
I love how the right wingers loathe Huckabee for being "too liberal," by which they mean, "way too humane." In my view, that's the thing about him that salvages him (well, up to a point); but---if, say, I HAD to have one of the Republicans---it wouldn't be he. I don't want a theocracy; his record seems to point to some, er, ethical lapses; and his followers are scary and humorless. (Malkin)
I am actually not sure which evil is the lesser, but I'd lean toward McCain or Romney. Romney, I think, because as a young child I remember admiring his father George for upsetting the GOP apple-cart Romney says things I find distasteful, but his record isn't that bad. I suspect he'd shift right if he became president, whereas I feel McCain would shift left. But McCain, at the end of the day, really is a bit of a loose cannon. God, I don't know! I am going to stop thinking about it; I have my health to think of.
Betsy is just afraid that Huckabee's record might keep him from beating Hillary.
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