For those who say that the Ames Straw Poll had no impact, Mike Huckabee is the headliner tonight on Hannity & Colmes. Huck would not have enjoyed the H&C audience of millions tonight had he not surged into second in Ames on Saturday night. H&C is just the start of a busy week. That is what I meant by momentum
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7 comments:
Is Huckabee's rise good or bad for us?
by: desmoinesdem
Sun Aug 12, 2007 at 23:57:14 PM CDT
I've long agreed with Kos that Mike Huckabee is the guy in the Republican field I'd least like to see us face in the general. Probably thanks to his experience as a pastor, he connects well with people both in person and on television.
He doesn't have the baggage of the Republicans in Congress (voting in lockstep with Bush on Iraq and everything else).
He has that inspiring personal story about overcoming obesity, a non-partisan issue that is salient for millions of Americans.
He has executive experience. Particularly against Hillary, I think Huckabee spells trouble for us.
Repeating my comment from Bleeding Heartland:
I'm happy about Huckabee's rise. My take on the R side is that we have to realize there is almost a 50/50 chance their guy will win the whole thing. Thus, I want their nominee to be someone I could possibly live with. Not just someone we can beat. Huckabee seems like a good, decent man, especially for a social conservative R prez contender. If I understand correctly, he was willing to raise some taxes in AR to fix the roads. Seems like an unusual spend & pay kind of R. And I guess that's why Club for Growth hates him.
(BTW, is my understanding about the Club for Growth hate for Huckabee correct?)
Sporer,
Inspired by your mention about Huckabee's market based energy solutions in a previous thread, I went to his campaign site. Not a lot of detail there on his energy stuff. What kinds of "market-based" energy ideas does he have?
Without saying more than I would be authorized, and assuming that we cannot implement Fair Tax in less than a 5-10 years phase in or warning:
Favorable tax treatment for individual and fleet fuel efficencies. Its very progressive and encourages middle income people to purchase high efficiency vehicles which reduce demand.
regional energy zones like the TVA where different types of energy are emphasised. Pennsylvania and West Virginia could use clean coal but Iowa and Minnesota, South Dakota would focus on hydro, wind, solar etc... for eletricty production. You know that hooked me.
Federal assistance (which I fear may be some corporate welfare but it is worth it in this case)to build the refining and distribution system so biofuels can better compete with older less efficient and much dirtier fuel mixes.
I also think he may be for national fuel standards. I have mixed feelings on this one. It does waste a lot of limited refining capactiy to have all these different standards, but I am usually distrustful of federal regulation.
I think he's also pretty on board with encouraging a lot more organic food and micro distribution systems for it, which saves a lot of energy in the demand department.
I like Huck for a lot of the same reason I find Obama more tolerable, they are simply not as polarized as the 60s crowd.
I like Mike Huckabee too! I hope he is one of the top two in the caucus with a possibility to be the President. I am sure he can be every Democrat running.
"BEAT" rather than "be" since that little typo really changes the meaning of things.
What is Hannity going to do without Rudy to shill for?
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