I dont usually do this, but I would like to save Republicans billions of dollars of wasted spending. You see, Mike Huckabee simply will not ever win a presidential election. Ever. There are perhaps a handful of people who might win if they ran as Republicans but none are currently Republicans. Those people include, in no particular order: Taylor Swift, Pope Francis, Warren Buffet (currently a Democrat, but who knows?), the Dalai Lama, Hillary Clinton (I hate to say it, but if she can change her residency to New York to get a Senate seat, anything is possible), and Jesus (although he would have to cut his hair and produce a birth certificate). Republicans are very good at winning in predominantly white, rural, sparsely populated states. You know, Flyover Territory. Democrats tend to win in places where most Americans live (funny how that works). So any competition that cannot be gerrymandered or that involves more than Kansan wheat farmers (not that I have anything against Kansas or wheat farmers, but they do tend to send some awful people to Washington to represent them) cannot be won by a Republican. That is, any national competition. All of this could change, of course. The Democrats could (and probably eventually will) run another Mondale, giving another Readers Digest reading actor the illusion that he is popular, but Republicans have only won 1 of the last 6 presidential elections. They have not had a president elected to and completing both of his terms since Ronald Reagan and before Reagan, the last two-term Republican president was Dwight D. Eisenhower (Nixon won his re-election but resigned in disgrace after having been found to be a lying paranoiac). So please, marginal candidates like Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich, and even Jeb Bush, give it a rest. You are weak candidates in a weak party. Anyone running as a GOP has to be either a phenomenal candidate or have a running mate who is the duck hunting partner of Justice Scalia. Just in case anyone is digging up this post in the future when a wildly popular President Huckabee was just elected to his second term, let me add this: predicting political outcomes unless your last name is Silver is as futile an exercise as making economic forecasts (and we all know that economists exist to give credibility to astrologers). So I could be wrong. I was before, at least once. But please, GOP, spare us the spectacle of a president jamming with Ted Nugent during his inauguration. Its just too weird. And unlike Rush Limbaugh, I wont threaten to leave this country if a politician I dont like from a party I mistrust is elected. Ill just muddle along and wait for Taylor Swift to run as a Democrat.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 18:23:28 +0000
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