Novak on Huckabee

[Timshel]

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=/Commentary/archive/200711/COM20071126a.html

Who would respond to criticism from the Club for Growth by calling the conservative, free-market campaign organization the "Club for Greed"? That sounds like Howard Dean, Dennis Kucinich or John Edwards, all Democrats preaching the class struggle. In fact, the rejoinder comes from Mike Huckabee, who has broken out of the pack of second-tier Republican presidential candidates to become a serious contender -- definitely in Iowa and perhaps nationally.

 

[Cancel7]

This is going to be hugely interesting to me. For years, I have marveled at the ability of the Republicans to con religious fanatics, most of whom are on the lower end of the socio-economic scale, into voting against their own economic self-interests over their obsessions with gays and fetuses.

Now along comes a candidate who shares those obsessions, while at the same time speaking an economic language that should absolutely be more simpatico with the low-income religious base.

No political junkie can claim that’s not going to be interesting. It is.

 

[Cypress]

I was recently scolded that Huckleberry's brand of republican-populism wasn't at least partially responsible for his surge in the polls.

I think it is. If it was merely religious orthodoxy that compelled people to give him a look, then what the fuck happnened to Sam Brownback??

I think he has an interesting combination that will appeal to religious cons. Exactly what Darla said, which I won't repeat.