Comments on: Huckabee: Real Republicans Vote for Me http://www.poligazette.com/2008/01/04/huckabee-real-republicans-vote-for-me/ Because Common Sense Transcends Distance Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:45:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: C Stanley http://www.poligazette.com/2008/01/04/huckabee-real-republicans-vote-for-me/comment-page-1/#comment-14915 C Stanley Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:46:26 +0000 http://poligazette.com/2008/01/04/huckabee-real-republicans-vote-for-me/#comment-14915 It's a tough line, to define yourself as an anti-establishment candidate without ramping up that rhetoric so much that you alienate those who favor the establishment (or the investor class, or what have you.) But I really do think that our current climate calls for this kind of change. Voters in '06 clearly saw that DC had become a cesspool of corruption and special interests, so there's a strong current of 'throw the bums out' mentality that Huck is tapping into. BTW, I've predicted that he'll start presenting his economic platform in a way that's more palatable to paleoconservatives and I think this is the start of it.  He's absolutely right about the small business issues, and he needs to keep hammering on those topics. It’s a tough line, to define yourself as an anti-establishment candidate without ramping up that rhetoric so much that you alienate those who favor the establishment (or the investor class, or what have you.)

But I really do think that our current climate calls for this kind of change. Voters in ‘06 clearly saw that DC had become a cesspool of corruption and special interests, so there’s a strong current of ‘throw the bums out’ mentality that Huck is tapping into.

BTW, I’ve predicted that he’ll start presenting his economic platform in a way that’s more palatable to paleoconservatives and I think this is the start of it.  He’s absolutely right about the small business issues, and he needs to keep hammering on those topics.

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