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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TideGlider who wrote (1644)	11/18/2008 8:11:04 AM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

Exactly right... the lazy, the frivolous, and the stupid...<g> GZ

To: TideGlider who wrote (1644)	11/18/2008 11:12:00 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 103300

Mike Huckabee's 'Do the Right Thing' Posted November 18, 2008 7:21 AM The Swamp swamppolitics.com by Jason George Mike Huckabee's new book about the 2008 primary race is titled "Do the Right Thing," although the 'right thing' might have been to instead name the book, "Mitt Romney is a Big Fat Spender." Romney's expensive media consultants? His 40 rented golf carts at the Iowa Straw Poll? The fact that he spent multi-millions to lose the nomination? All that perceived profligacy and ineptitude appears to delight Huckabee to no end and few pages in the book pass without a mention of 'ol Mitt's mistakes. In fact, Romney appears more in "Do the Right Thing" than any person except Huckabee himself, according to the book's own index, and about 99.9 percent of Romney's appearances ain't pretty, of course. For literary benefit, all this focus on big-bad Romney allows the former Arkansas governor to somewhat accurately paint the 2008 race as a financial David vs. Goliath affair. (It's 'somewhat' because Romney's and Giuliani's well-funded losses, obviously, did not translate into a Huckabee nomination.) But it's within this prism of the campaign inequalities, that Huckabee's 2007 ascent from obscurity to winning eight state contests seems even more remarkable than it did when it actually occurred last winter. Certainly, Huckabee's wins remain a great story of campaign grit, gab and Chuck Norris. (Norris first appears in DRT on Page 3.) Saying all that though, the fact that Huckabee's distaste for Romney appears so often in "Do the Right Thing," probably has less to do this year's campaign than one four years from now... It's obvious that Huckabee is well on his way toward a (presently undeclared) 2012 bid for the White House; and one assumes that Huckabee feels that these early strikes at the former Massachusetts governor will either dissuade Romney from running or at least differentiate their potential campaigns. So what exactly is "Do the Right Thing" about? In many ways, it simply reiterates positions Huckabee has stated before in his books and speeches - anti-abortion, pro-assault rifles, etc. - but does so in the framework of contrasting these stances with "Faux-Cons" like Romney. (This book features enough charges of phonyism that Huck should've asked Holden for a blurb.) Otherwise, the book shares scant post-campaign reflection - Huckabee lingers little on his devastating South Carolina loss, for example, which had nothing to do with Romney. And yet, now-tv-host Huckabee seems happy enough with the race's overall outcome that he appears ready to get back on that horse the next go around. It's surely no coincidence that former candidate's book tour over the next couple of weeks includes crisscrossing states that Republicans consider crucial primary wins. He'll hit Iowa this week -- twice for good measure -- where, no doubt, locals will appreciate the title of the book's prologue: "I Love Iowa!"