Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Mike Huckabee / The Clintons Obama 2.0
Posted by Leslie Newell Peacock on Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:12 PM
President Obama is already thinking about his re-election strategy, Peter Baker's article in the New York Times Magazine says, and here is where his aides are on the competition: Mike Huckabee is the one to beat.
Obama’s aides say they will most likely set up their re-election campaign around next March, roughly the same as when Bush and Clinton incorporated their incumbent campaign operations. They are more optimistic about 2012 than they are about 2010, believing the Tea Party will re-elect Barack Obama by pulling the Republican nominee to the right. They doubt Sarah Palin will run and figure Mitt Romney cannot get the Republican nomination because he enacted his own health care program in Massachusetts. If they had to guess today, some in the White House say that Obama will find himself running against Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor.
There's mention of that other Arkansas politician, as well. He's the one to emulate.
It would be bad form for the president to anticipate an election result before it happens, but clearly Obama hopes that just as Clinton recovered from his party’s midterm shellacking in 1994 to win re-election two years later, so can he. There was something odd in hearing Obama invoke Clinton. Two years ago, Obama scorned the 42nd president, deriding the small-ball politics and triangulation maneuvers and comparing him unfavorably with Ronald Reagan. Running against Clinton’s wife, Obama was the anti-Clinton. Now he hopes, in a way, to be the second coming of Bill Clinton. Because, in the end, it’s better than being Jimmy Carter.
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Sweet weepin' Jesus! To what low pitch of abject (mis-) fortune have we fallen that Mike Huckabee is the one to beat in a U.S. presidential election?
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"TURN OUT THE LIGHTS, THE PARTY IS OVER" FOR OBAMA IN 2012
YOUR GONNA HAVE TO GO PLAY GOLF ON YOUR OWN TIME, COMRADE OBAMA
Huckabee's campaign would not survive the Maurice Clemmons scandal. The dark horse to watch for the GOP nomination is former U.N. ambassador John Bolton.
Why wouldn't he, Clinton went into full campaign mode after the mid-term elections, and that's all he did for his 3rd and 4th year in office, campaign and of course his most favorite thing to do, raise money and get BJs from interns along the way. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.)
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