Hybrid Huck
Jim Geraghty has an article in National Review which relates some of the reasons many believe that Mike Huckabee is the only Republican candidate who can win the general election. Here are a few excerpts from it:
Suppose you’re an undecided Republican voter, with mixed feelings about the big-name Republican presidential candidates. You respect John McCain, but he doesn’t look like a viable option — which is just as well since he bugged you with his crusade for speech-limiting campaign finance reform, and lost you with the immigration deal with Ted Kennedy.
Mitt Romney’s wowed you in the debates, but you can’t forget that while you agree with all his positions, he had strikingly different ones not too long ago. And you would prefer a nominee who has won more than just one political race in his life.
You love Rudy Giuliani’s crime-fighting record and 9/11 leadership, but the thought of a non-pro-life Republican nominee gives you pause, and the messy home life troubles you a bit.
You were very excited about Fred Thompson, and nearly fainted with anticipation when you saw his smackdown of Michael Moore. But lately you feel like you’re playing a character in Waiting for Godot, and you’re wondering if he got lost somewhere on the way to the announcement.
Those still shopping for a candidate could do a lot worse than former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, who with the second-place finish in Ames is not merely now a “top tier” candidate, as Newt Gingrich recently declared, but arguably belongs in the middle of that first tier.
For four straight debates, Republicans have watched Huckabee and put him in the intriguing-longshot category. Smart guy, can turn an artful phrase or two, good executive experience, with one big drawback: Who’s actually going to vote for him?
But after his second-place finish at the Ames straw poll this past weekend, Huckabee can make the case that he’s the candidate social conservatives can unify behind, with signs of appeal well beyond the “religious Right.” And that’s just what he did in a meeting with reporters and bloggers at the Monocle restaurant just off Capitol Hill Wednesday afternoon.
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