How does everybody feel about a Huckabee/Obama match-up?

do you think the wingers would be able to stir up the base to turn out for that?

edit:

This is Huckabee vs. Obama in the general, not together as a ticket.

so, yes the wingers likely would get out and vote.

Obama is not the stuff of general elections. It will be a shame if he gets the nominee. We can do so much better.

(did I misread the OP subject line?)

That might be enough for the fundies to continue their blind drunken support of the GOP.

but there are lots of fundies who are waiting for their exalted leader James Dobson to tell them what to do.

If you are implying Obama is a fundy, he is not. Who cares about what fundies want, anyway? We need crossover from moderates, not fundies.

just asking how people feel they would match up, due to the fact that they're both surging right now in Iowa. No need to be so defensive.

I misunderstood your OP :hi:

By the way, I think Huckabee will be their nominee.

:hi:

I'm telling you guys--he will be the repug nominee. Ghouli and Romney both have baggage. Huckabee has a disarming way about him that is atypical for most repugs, which makes him all the more dangerous. I'm sure we will still be able to beat him due to his lack of name recognition but we still have to watch him closely.

although weinerdoggie claims there is some big dirt yet to come out on him.

when weinerdogoggie posted the the Huckster has baggage?

him once nominated. The Fundies will fall back in love with the GOP once he is nominated. If he gets the backing of the Neocon faction as well he will be a tough opponent. The whole no evolution thing should really be a litmus test.

With the corporate media, rural voters and misinformation, you honestly think a black man from Chicago has a chance to beat a rural, white minister from Arkansas?

You don't get out and talk to too many average citizens, do you?

being resurrected from the republican book of dirty tricks once again..:puke:

I think Huckabee is going to be the GOP suprise nominee because he is going to do far better than anyoneexpect in Ioawa ans that sets up a win in SOuth Carolina. In a General electio campaign, Ithin Obam wins because of the fractures in the GOP and the fact that African AMerican Turn-out in SOuthern States will be phenomenal.


It would be an interesting tilt however and probably the cleanes campaing from the candidates we have seen in a while. The GOP minions are another story.

YOuy have to think of this electorally and you havce to think of it in terms of three states. Virginia, Missouri, and Ohio. We should win Florida. If we win any of the other three we win the election because most of the other states are either locked as blue or red reagardless of the candidate.

That electin would pivot somewhat on the VP nod. Huckabee/Guliani? vs Obama/Richardson?

issues while they also think he's too liberal on fiscal issues.

Huckabee is a heartbreak candidate (like Paul); he gets the hopes up for some fringe constituency within the Republican Party but then the Party will crush him because they fear he is too far outside the mainstream (and perhaps too independent) to win.

Huck is rising in the polls but he's got a long way to go before 'electoral college victory.'

Which is great!

Even though half the voters in this country are stupid enough to vote for another Republican, I think that even those voters would draw the line with someone like this extremist.

to get "elected" the first time. He had 9/11 under his belt the second time.

as a desperation attempt to get their support, and it seems to be working, yet when the general election rolls around, he'd probably tone it down somewhat, although he is still one scary sounding SOB.

Yes, they do exist.

Trivia: one funny thing about a final contest between Obama and Huckabee would be that we would be forced to have a President with a last name that ended in a vowel, something we've never had before.

:P

if Obama takes no southern states, then there is no landslide.

it wasn't in 2000, was it?

all of the southern born/transplanted Presidents in the last 140 years, not to mention the leadership of the House and Senate?

Huckabee is one of the best options for the Republicans, so I think you're asking the right question. What's good about Huckabee is he doesn't drown himself in Reaganomic kool-aid and seems to be the only Republican that understands people are hurting out there because of pure laissez-faire economics. This alone would make him strong with independents and a competitive choice by the Republicans. At the end of the day, however, I think he's too nice for them and doesn't give wargasm-craving faction of the party what they so deeply desire.

I still think it will be ugly however it shakes out.

I think it will probably be very close regardless. My blood pressure can't take another one of these I'm afraid.

More than the typical personality bullshit. I think Obama would have a slight edge. Also, Huckabee is tolerable to the fundy base. Huckabee is our biggest problem. He inspires the republicans that we have been dealing with for years. The right wing nuts would likely avoid Guiliani, Romney, and McCain.

Huckster is a slick guy and could beat everyone save Dodd or Clinton.

because they're base is only a fraction of what they think it is.

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