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Saturday, November 22, 2008

Huck and Mitt Need to Go Away

I think Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney are both good men, and they both need to withdraw from Republican presidential politics.

The running gun battles between the Huck and Mitt camps are not healthy for the conservative movement. Huck is a slick, smiling gut-fighter who easily lapses into thinly disguised anti-Mormon conceit and liberal tinged populism. Mitt is a wildly successful businessman who is also an ideological chameleon.

I am tired of the bickering between these two men and their fervid supporters. Like matches and gasoline, each man is good in his own way, but mixed together they cause a conflagration that can only damage the conservative movement. And the arguments that spring up around this dreadful duo traffic in religion and personality rather than substantive issues. The ongoing argument has devolved into a third-world political mudball fight where the faithful worship their political idol and smear and demean the opponent.
Viva Huck! Mitt is el diablo!

We need substantive debates on core issues, not personality contests. And these two shape-shifters and their cohorts have generated light and heat and sparks but very little substance.

And for this reason I also believe we need to take a cold-eyed view of Sarah Palin. She is a woman of great accomplishment, but we need to drop the mythology and ask if she really has the foreign policy credentials to be president.

Let's be honest, president Bush had no foreign policy experience, and I think that worked against him and the nation. President-Elect Obama does not, but it remains to be seen how that will work out. If it works out well for him, then Sarah Palin can make a case for herself by pointing to President Obama's success in spite of his inexperience. She can then make a case based on judgment and her Alaska record, which I think would put her in good stead.

We need to drop the politics of personality and judge our candidates on the merits of their ideas and experience.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Huck can take his makeshift Fox News band with him. They SUCK!!

Silverfiddle said...

Anon: Thanks for proving my point

Ohio Joe: You said it better than I did. I glad to see I'm not the only one.

John personal trainer austin tx said...

Huck and Mitt, like McCain, are RINOS. They cannot ruly carry the banner. Sarah can.

Silverfiddle said...

But can Sarah overcome the press hatred?

Land of Da Free said...

Mike Huckabee could earn a great amount of respect in my eyes in 2 years if he endorses Sarah Palin and campaigns for her in Iowa. We don't need a repeat of the last 2 years. I don't want to see 4 or 5 conservative candidates tearing eachother apart allowing a liberal Republican to get nominated.

Silverfiddle said...

Land of Da Free: Amen. We do need a vigorously fought primary, but once it's over the sniping needs to stop.

I don't think these two candidates should be part of the primary. They had their chance and blew it. Time to move on.

You must be fan of Da Bears!

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