Huck: The Real Beverly Hillbilly?

Interesting, I saw an item reporting Huckabee is in Beverly Hills today raising money.

It isn't the first time.

In fact, the quest for money is what brought Huckabee to town. He spoke midday before a Lincoln Club group in Irvine (not a fundraiser, but you can bet one will be planned) and Wednesday night he was to attend a Beverly Hills fundraiser hosted by Suzi and Fred Wehba, a real estate investor whose holdings include the Watergate in Washington, D.C, among other landmarks. But the post-Iowa cash influx hasn't been enough for Huckabee to upgrade his travel arrangements. He's still flying commercial,...

an everyman experience just as frustrating and time-consuming for him as the rest of us. "One of the first things I do as president," he joked, "is I fix the air traffic control system."

Huckabee's campaign strategy is to be the last guy standing, the one not voted off the "Republican Island." An occasional marathon runner, Huckabee equates the campaign with the 26-plus mile foot races, and another more famous one between a hare and tortoise.

"Of course, the moral of the story is the turtle did win, because of consistency and persistence," Huckabee said, confusing the land-dwelling tortoise of the fable with its more aquatic cousin. "I've always felt that this campaign was going to be about stamina, not about speed," he said.

Key for Huckabee, who has a habit of mixing metaphors, is to be ready when the field begins to narrow. "There's an assumption that some people in front of us will stumble," Huckabee said. "Not that we'll put nails in the road ahead of them. I don't think we have to. We just stay out of the way so that when these cars crash into each other, we don't get into the wreckage."

But you first have to be close enough to the front to take advantage. And polls still place Huckabee in the single digits. A new LA Times/Bloomberg poll shows Huckabee drawing less than half of what "don't know" received in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, and placing a distant fourth or fifth in each state behind Romney, Giuliani, McCain and Thompson, whose recent entry in the race has scrambled the conservative vote.

If he raises serious cash, he can win.

Comments

[Ken]

How many Republicans are there in Hollywood? If he raises significant cash in that neighborhood you can bet it is the DNC encouraging their members to donate to him as he is easily the most defeatable candidate in their eyes.

[JP]

There is a really interesting note on Ed Rollins and Huckabee and CAIR on the Debbie Schlussel blog. Apparently Rollins and Huckabee have a close relationship with CAIR.

[Miklo]

I will actually have a new respect for the "SoCal Swells" if Huckabee can raise more than 20 cents out there!!

SERIOUSLY!!!!

[TexasFred]

Come and listen to my story 'bout a man named Huck,
He went to California just to try and make a buck...

I think I'd better leave this poem alone, there is a possibility it may get a bit 'adult'... LMAO...

[TexasFred]

Come and listen to my story 'bout a man named Huck,
He went to California just to try and make a buck...
He said I'm a candidate and not a silly toad
But he got run over in the middle of the road..

Squashed, like road kill... Granny coulda cooked him...

So they scraped up Huck and sent him to D.C.
He was flatter than a pancake, of that we all could see..
But he beat the ugly witch that was on the Demos side,
And he said Praise Gawwwwd it's a hell of a ride...

Baptist that is... Southern Style...

Y'all come back now, ya hear??

[seekeronos]

"--- There is a really interesting note on Ed Rollins and Huckabee and CAIR on the Debbie Schlussel blog. Apparently Rollins and Huckabee have a close relationship with CAIR. ---"

JP, could you please post a link or two? I'm curious in taking a look at this item. Thanks!

[Huckabee Puzzle Solved]

Most folks are missing the monumental plain-as-day piece of the Huckabee puzzle. Ask yourself, why is Mr. Huckabee doing well? Or better, how does anyone know who he is?

Huckabee was introduced to the public in a huge free promotion by the mainstream media and is staying alive through an unparalleled hold-your-fire by the Democrats. Ask, "Why does the mainstream media give him a non-stop, glowing, unbelievably positive free-ride?" (Huckabee free-ride reporting as of the past sixty minutes, "Huckabee bags a bird in Iowa" (Associated Press) ...from a gun control obsessed MSM written as if Huck was a top kindergarden student that had earned a gold star) and ask, "Why are the Democratics smiling and maintaining radio-silence?" Such obvious questions are these that even democratic pundits find it impossible not to blurt them out.

In case the plain fact of the "Huck Boom" has escaped you, the reality is that as soon as he might win the nomination, the MSM/Democratics know they can go into action and quickly extinguish Mr. Huckabee. They know they could mop the floor with poor Huck - in front of America they could have him melting down in only several evening newscasts like a character at the end of the movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark".

Setting up the sting, can one possibly fathom that with all the blunders Huckabee has made, with a checkered past of controversial if not bizarre comments, no negative news about him ever appears? From a mainstream media that loves to hate Republicans, mind boggling. Imagine how the elitist, "Oh-so-disdainful-of-Heartland-America" MSM/Democratic machine laughs inside over the likes Mr. Huckabee and what they know they can do with him. Mr. Huckabee, confronted by the mountain of negative news articles the mainstream media would unleash, would sink like a confused, bible thumping dullard that couldn't utter more than, "Shazam!". With the Clintons' connections in Arkansas, enough documentation illustrating incompetence by the Huck will mysteriously appear in lead stories on the evening news he won't be able to get out more than, "Goah-ah-Oh-ah-Lee?!"

Consider a wildly slanted mainstream media that daily features headlines like the idiotic, "Clinton says wife a 'world-class genius'" (AP - Fri Dec 21, 1:16 AM ET). Can you imagine gems like "Goah-Lee, Vote for Gomer for President" to continue? Laughing out-loud yet? It isn't a matter of whether you genuinely like Huckabee, it's that there won't be anything left of him after the MSM/Dems turn, aim and fire. "Gomer The Huck", with tossed hair and torn pages in his bible, will pray he was back doing pushups for Sgt. Carter and the race for the Whitehouse over.

Huckabee has been set up as the MSM/Dems' spoiler-stooge, and if you're falling for it you're in for a big surprise. Could Mr. Huckabee win in November? The question is would he walk, limp, or crawl back to Arkansas. The mainstream media, elitist organizations acknowledging almost 100% Democratic staffs, will sucker-punch Huck relentlessly when the faux fawning is over. If Huckabee gets the nomination, crates of champagne will be quietly delivered to the ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Time-Warner, and Democratic headquarters as the eyes of their staffs well with tears of joy. Voting for Huckabee? Save time and trouble for yourself and the meltdown for Huck - vote instead directly for Hillary.