Why is huckabee unelectable

Huckabee's campaign is soaring to heights that seemed unimaginable just a month ago. The turnaround is personified by evangelicals Valerie and Larry Domagalski, who waited more than an hour recently to greet Mr.

Huckabee after a speech in Greenville, S. When they finally got their chance, Mr. Domagalski looked Mr. Huckabee in the eye: "We've been praying for you," he said. He was a really nice, moderate Republican. A true gentleman but a member of Congress, more a part of the Washington Republican establishment than representing the grassroots of Conservatism. And people can say, 'well, we lost that year,' and, yes, we did. Edwards' stump speech, which is far more policy-specific than Huckabee's humorous ramblings, features a riff about how as a trial lawyer in North Carolina he stared down the special interests and their elite armies of corporate lawyers.

The same little-guy-triumphant theme is embedded in Huckabee's appeal to voters. In Ames, before a crowd of likely caucus-goers, Huckabee said, "I didn't go to any Ivy League school. I paid my way through a small Christian college in Arkansas. I know that when I first ran for office, I ran against several guys who had Harvard law degrees But I found out that the things that I learned in life helped me just as much as Harvard.

And, by the way, I won those elections against those guys with the Harvard law degrees. In contrast, Romney, on the stump in Iowa in late November, told a joke that literally began, "A man walks into a country club. If Romney falls short in Iowa, that sentence -- "He looks right through you" -- could serve as his epitaph.

Political reporting in Iowa comes with the occupational hazard of trying too hard to find grand overarching themes in the decision of maybe , Democrats and 80, Republicans who will attend the caucuses.

A reminder: Sarah Huckabee Sanders willfully and repeatedly lied to the American people for a living, doing incalculable damage to our nation. But note: None of these people vote in Arkansas or have much influence here. This kind of response is actually catnip for her and her messaging.

Will she comment on the many hot button issues pending before this legislature, including specifics on taxing and spending? Does she endorse right-wing cancel culture, as embodied in a couple of pieces of pending anti-First Amendment legislation? Will she provide an accounting of the charity she set up to hand out cash to businesses struggling during the pandemic? Who provided the money? How was it spent?

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