Huckabee called his base political idiots, politically illiterate

“The people that are sitting around saying, ‘He’s definitely going to be a one-term president. It’s going to be easy to take him out,’ they’re obviously political illiterates – political idiots, let me be blunt,” said former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee in an interview.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/50308.html#ixzz1FGAm23JI

I think Huckabee is generally right. but for someone with White House aspirations to tell their base, or a vocal portion of their base, that they are idiots is unwise by any measure.

moderates are driven away by the far-far right tea party discourse. Especially since Obama is abandoning the left and staking his path down the center.

as a further left than he governs.

Maybe you heard what you wanted to hear?

We knew from his record that he was a somewhat left of center.

At anyrate, Huckabee I think is the best candidate the Republicans have. He sounds sane, he is charming and likable,

The media will be quite happy to cover up the fact that he is a extremist theocrat.

I don't have many illusions, I know many DU'er will be "subtly" encouraging Democratic voters to stay home in 2012.

If Huckabee (or any Republican for that matter) gets elected, it is pretty much all over for all of us.

Anyone who does not think he did is our own version of politically illiterate. You can look at the DNC speech in Boston, you can look at 'Audacity. You can look at any number of speeches during the campaign (and though he was anti-war....so was most of the nation) But his whetoric was ingeniously designed for post-partisan global appeal where the listener was able to glean what they want to hear.

that was a speech to help elect John Kerry, not an Obama campaign speech.

Let's take a look at his announcement speech.

"It was here, in Springfield, where I saw all that is America converge -- farmers and teachers, businessmen and laborers, all of them with a story to tell, all of them seeking a seat at the table, all of them clamoring to be heard. I made lasting friendships here -- friends that I see in the audience today."

Where was out seat at the table when it came to HCR, or shutting down wars?

"What's stopped us from meeting these challenges is not the absence of sound policies and sensible plans. What's stopped us is the failure of leadership, the smallness of our politics -- the ease with which we're distracted by the petty and trivial, our chronic avoidance of tough decisions, our preference for scoring cheap political points instead of rolling up our sleeves and building a working consensus to tackle big problems. "

Where's the touch decision he has made and the leadership he speaks and promises of?

"And as people have looked away in disillusionment and frustration, we know what's filled the void. The cynics, and the lobbyists, and the special interests who've turned our government into a game only they can afford to play. They write the checks and you get stuck with the bills, they get the access while you get to write a letter, they think they own this government, but we're here today to take it back. The time for that politics is over. It's time to turn the page. "

Like he stuck us with the bill of bank bailouts and the lobbyists he meets across the street from the White House.

I could go on and on, like when he speaks of the not compromising principles that can not be compromised - like the principles he compromised in Iraq - but you get the point.

That's pure projection on your part. and You still have not dealt with Audacity of Hope whic is a post partisan manifesto.

Oh, and BTW--it was BUSH who signed the bank bailouts.

Sigh.

Bake

His record is clear. He has never let perfection get in the way of possibility. He will take 1/2 a loaf when the alternative is nothing but crumbs.

Anyone that saw differently was not examining the record or was projecting onto the President their own ideals and political philosophy.

In the end results and accomplishment matter. The President has always understood this.

EOM

so they'll never see this article and won't understand it if someone reads it to them.

They are political illiterates. Most of them know very little about politics, governance or current events.

I don't see this as an attack on his base as much as an attack on pundits in the media.

And basically Huckabee is right. Obama won't go down easily, or at all as far as I see it.

Peace,
Tex Shelters

I read one-termer posts on this site every time I have the misfortune of stopping by.

He's made a series of comments the last couple of weeks that should rile the T-party types.

I think he's learned he can't access the money he needs to win the GOP nomination. That part of the Republican establishment has never had much confidence in him. He's tried, but he's a little too much his own man.

...on how to commit political suicide by blaming your base for your failures

They won't.