Posted by
Steve on Friday, April 04, 2008 2:16:40 PM
There are news reports out that Huckabee supporters are trying to stop John McCain from picking Mitt Romney as his Vice-Presidential pick. It sounds like Mike Huckabee has not gotten over his Mormon envy from the primaries.
In the primaries, Mike Huckabee feigned ignorance of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and asked a loaded question. The question he asked showed that he had extensive knowledge of Mormon Doctrine. But, he asked the question in such a way that it was like “when did you stop beating your wife.” There was no way to answer the question without being mired in controversy. Mike Huckabee knew that from the start. He was not searching out truth; he was trying to create problems where none existed.
Now, he has surrogates doing much the same thing in trying to stop John McCain from selecting Mitt Romney as his running mate. Mitt Romney would be an excellent choice as Vice-President. He brings to the table everything that John McCain does not. Mitt Romney also brings many blue states into the purple column and makes them competitive. That will be a good thing for the McCain bid to be our next President.
Huckabee’s bigotry is not becoming. He says he is not a bigot. He says that he has no animosity towards Mormons. Yet, whenever he has a chance to shoot at a Mormon, he takes his shot. Huckabee bills himself as the leader of the social conservatives. He is not the leader of the social conservatives. Huckabee is the leader of the bigots of the religious bigotry movement. That is not a position I would wish on my worst enemy. Huckabee has just taken another tumble from the bottom of my Republican list to near the bottom of my Democrat list.
Of course, the Democrats penchant for shooting themselves in the foot is also helping the McCain candidacy. A year ago, it looked like there was no chance that a Republican could be elected this time. Mrs. Clinton looked unbeatable and no Republican stood out from the field. Well, you have to play the game even though the odds are not good. Barack Obama came out of nowhere and is on the threshold of defeating Mrs. Clinton for the nomination. Even if he fails to defeat her for the nomination, he has taken the luster off her nomination. Also, if Obama is denied the nomination, many black voters will be turned off on voting Democrat in this election. Of course, if Obama wins, Mrs. Clinton’s supporters will also be crying foul and may not vote for the Democrat candidate either.
How did we get to this point? First, Barack Obama gave the Democrats something that Mrs. Clinton cannot give them. He gave them a candidate that sounds like a Presidential candidate. Mrs. Clinton sounds like someone that just ate a lemon. Obama also gave the Democrats the chance to really look at what the Clinton’s had done to the party. Many Democrats did not like the picture that emerged from the post-Clinton party. They started attacking Mrs. Clinton at her most vulnerable points. They knew where they were, because they knew where all the skeletons were buried. Mrs. Clinton started sounding like just any old candidate that had no record. She resorted to telling lies to make her sound more important than she really is. The news media called Mrs. Clinton on those lies. Mrs. Clinton then resorted to the time tested Clinton playbook material. She went on the attack against Barack Obama. Of course, she could not attack him where he is most vulnerable because she is also vulnerable there. So, she attacked him wherever she could. She landed many blows and made him into the Chicago politician that he is.
The Democrats now have to choose between a no experience Chicago style politician and a no experience Clinton. They do have the race or gender card to put on top of that playbook. But, the picture does not look good for the Democrats in November. Their cat fight has exposed both candidates to be the far left wing of the Democrat party. That means that they are both outside of the mainstream of American society. They have given the middle and right sides of the field to John McCain. That is perfectly his battlefield. Had they tried to corner John McCain on the right, he would have been toast. But, by giving him the middle as well as the right, they are giving him most of the ground to win.