Wow! You could hardly fit any more derisive terminology in Dick Armey's assessment of Huckabee's candidacy. He also makes some good arguments as to why social cons would be wise to not be fooled by the Huckster. Just a few of Armey's greatest hits:
an ill-advised romance with a flighty, flaky new brand of politics ... sunshine rhetoric in the service of liberal fantasies ... Mike Huckabee abandoned conservative governance long ago.
... his small-minded populism ... nanny-state notions ... jokes and folksy patter ... a practice of peddling cotton-candy bromides ... the self-esteem candidate, in which merely feeling good is the core of the message
a dark form of class warfare shrewdly masked by his sunny chatter.
the new wave of feel-good conservatism, which seeks not to deal in policy that works so much as policy and rhetoric that provide emotional gratification.
Rush also anti-endorsed the Huckster.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPekXySEnZg
Posted by: seekeronos | Tuesday, January 08, 2008 at 11:46 AM
Uh yeah... Armey sounds a little jealous.
Posted by: Miklo | Tuesday, January 08, 2008 at 06:09 PM