thisisgiparti
12-18-2007, 02:33 AM
Not that I'm in any way being original, but I never took Mike Huckabee seriously and always saw him as an obvious Vice President for Mitt Romney when he gets the GOP nomination. All you Ron Paul supporters feeding the Huckabee trolls are helping along this presumption.
The media has already switched to McCain, so they are easing up on Huck. This is when Romney could regain his footing. Giuliani continues to slip, and he is hoping to come in on Super Tuesday. That depends on Romney, and your sights should be set on him. To the Huckabee fans here, eat your hearts out.:p
December 18, 2007
Why Huckabee Might Be Helping Romney
By John McIntyre
It is generally thought that Mike Huckabee's surge in the Republican race has complicated Mitt Romney's path to the nomination. And there is no arguing that the Huckabee boomlet has blown-up the Romney campaign's carefully laid plan to parlay early wins in Iowa and New Hampshire into the kind of momentum it needs to win. However, while the focus has been on Romney's fading polls in Iowa, what is underappreciated is just how much the emergence of Huckabee as the "religious" candidate has changed the dynamic of the GOP field, and changed it in a way that may be very helpful to Mitt Romney.
The Romney campaign has had an extremely disciplined and methodical approach to winning the GOP nomination. Central to Romney's strategy was adjusting most, if not all, policy positions that were at odds with the core, nominating GOP electorate. Now it should be said that all politicians tweak and massage positions when running for higher office, but the wholesale transformation on the issues of guns, gays, abortion and immigration, and its cumulative effect, has created its own set of major obstacles for the Romney campaign. On Sunday, Tim Russert methodically exposed these politically obvious flip-flops on hot-button social issues from Romney's years running for state office (1994 - 2002).
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/12/why_huckabee_might_be_helping.html
The media has already switched to McCain, so they are easing up on Huck. This is when Romney could regain his footing. Giuliani continues to slip, and he is hoping to come in on Super Tuesday. That depends on Romney, and your sights should be set on him. To the Huckabee fans here, eat your hearts out.:p
December 18, 2007
Why Huckabee Might Be Helping Romney
By John McIntyre
It is generally thought that Mike Huckabee's surge in the Republican race has complicated Mitt Romney's path to the nomination. And there is no arguing that the Huckabee boomlet has blown-up the Romney campaign's carefully laid plan to parlay early wins in Iowa and New Hampshire into the kind of momentum it needs to win. However, while the focus has been on Romney's fading polls in Iowa, what is underappreciated is just how much the emergence of Huckabee as the "religious" candidate has changed the dynamic of the GOP field, and changed it in a way that may be very helpful to Mitt Romney.
The Romney campaign has had an extremely disciplined and methodical approach to winning the GOP nomination. Central to Romney's strategy was adjusting most, if not all, policy positions that were at odds with the core, nominating GOP electorate. Now it should be said that all politicians tweak and massage positions when running for higher office, but the wholesale transformation on the issues of guns, gays, abortion and immigration, and its cumulative effect, has created its own set of major obstacles for the Romney campaign. On Sunday, Tim Russert methodically exposed these politically obvious flip-flops on hot-button social issues from Romney's years running for state office (1994 - 2002).
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/12/why_huckabee_might_be_helping.html