Letters to the Editor
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Media incompetence
This highlights two problems:
1. How could the media possibly give good reviews for a "marginally competent job"? Isn't this how we ended up with the mess we're in now? Just do your job and tell the truth.
2. We allow pundits and the media to tell us things like the name Huckabee matter. Dan Bartlett will go on TV and talk about the funny name and after hammering that for weeks or months everyone will accept it. Much the same way we had to hear about who Americans would rather have a beer with.
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"He is the most articulate, visionary candidate of anybody in the field,"
Uh, Ron Paul, hello!
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Oh Danny Boy
Mike Huckabee also smells funny and eats boogers.
Thanks for raising the level of discourse, Dan Bartlett.
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nah, huckabee can't be that good
"'Hope, Arkansas'? Here we go again."
What's this, you mean with Huckabee we'll have relative peace, a booming economy, control of the deficit, an intelligent, engaged president, and an overall sense of optimism again?
I guess I can see why the typical Repug would find the above distasteful, but I'm skeptical that Huckabee can deliver.
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Yeah, Giuliani and Clinton roll right off the tongue
What a crock of shinola. If we were going by who has a 'normal' name, we'd be electing John Edwards. Hey - what a great idea! Let's base the dem primary on pronounceability! (Just this year, though, please....)
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Giuliani/Huckabee '08!
Good lord...it seems that even Ralph Nader would have a chance this time around.
But it is a good idea to talk about Ron Paul. At least he's saying ONE thing I agree with.
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Wouldn't it be hilarious if...
all the Repug candidates tanked early and Richard Cheney decided, "hell, I'm the best candidate" just like he did when he helped GWB select his running mate?
That's not funny!
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Dan Bartlett Has Succeeded in Raising Political Discourse...
...to the level Beavis and Butthead.
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I have been betting on Hucklebee for months
I have been saying that Hucklebee will be the republican nominee for months and I cannot figure out why he has not taken off. I think the explanation that he has a funny last name and that he is tainted with the Clinton dust from Hope AK are as good as reasons as any why is not one of the leaders.
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Missing link?
I guess the fact that Huckabee thinks that evolution is just a theory is less peculiar to Bartlett than his name. Or perhaps he thinks the rest of America will care less about his scientific notions, or lack thereof, than about his monicker. Sadly, Bartlett might be right.
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Call me narrow-minded
or maybe it's because he's a Republican, but every time I hear the name Huckabee I'm visited by images of bare feet, missing teeth and a banjo. Apologies to Bela Fleck.
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Huckabee! What's in a name?
Well, at least its not Dingleberry. If Bartlett thinks the name is a problem, what did he think about Bush for chrisakes!
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Hold the Phone
Before we consign Thompson to the trash heap of history, let's remember how far certain people have been able to take "dumb and folksy." Like it or not, the American public at large apparently doesn't put much stock in smarts. "Plain talk" and likeability count far more it would seem.
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Just to be pedantic...
I guess the fact that Huckabee thinks that evolution is just a theory is less peculiar to Bartlett than his name.
Evolution is just a theory. Huckabee, however, said that he doesn't believe in it, and thus demonstrated that he's willfully stupid, pandering to the willfully stupid, or both.
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Bartlett thinks Huckabee is great
because he said Huckabee is the most like Bush. I can definitely see the similarities: two mediocre Governors, way out of their intellectual depth in the Presidential arena, driven by religious-right ideology, with no understanding of the Constitution. Yep.
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Was He Commenting from Iraq?
Dan Bartlett's a war booster and he's under the maximum enlistment age. Is he serving in Iraq?
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A funny name and a place associated with knee-jerk hostility
are certainly enough to put off the 30% of dead enders who still believe the Republican party line. I guess the ghastly Ann Coulter does know her audience when she tries to torpedo Obama's candidacy by harping on the fact that his middle name is Hussein.
Remember back in '00 when Republicans were gloating about how great it was to have "the adults back in charge?"
Sigh.