Saturday, December 22, 2007
It's not about the religion?
PM Carpenter takes a good look at how the Republican primary battles are playing out and makes his prediction for McCain. But it is his look at Mike " The Pope from Hope" Huckabee that provides the most interesting appraisal. It seems that the non religious Republicans have a very good reason to fear him, and it has nothing to do with his worshipping a false god. Old Mike is way too greedy, even for Republicans.
GOP pols prefer that graft be spread around evenly and politely, and this, Mr. Huckabee did not do. "If you don’t line up with him, Katie bar the door," is how one former Republican state rep remembered his merciless meetings with the impolitic governor.This makes much more sense than any aversion to evangelicals. After all, Mike was a TV preacher and we all know TV preachers are more familiar with the spreadsheet than the Gospel.
In short, Mr. Huckabee did not at all play well with other Republican sachems he now needs, while he seems to have had a rather luxurious time doing it -- and at the ideologically opposed, taxpaying rank-and-file's expense. To be even shorter, such things will not bode well in the primary marathon.
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