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"..and his views on the need for vertical politics in America."

Still working the meme.

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Jeeeezus, What's next, Sarah Palin takes over Miss Manners?

We chuckle while our former headmaster laughs uncontrollably all the way to the bank.

He's back in his element. Maybe he'll leave the political gig behind.

What the hell choice does he have durango?

Go the path of Tommy Robinson? He can't go back to church. Not enough glory in
that plus churches revenues decline before governments feel the pinch then the choke.

You're right. Just like Lum n' Abner. Paul Harvey. Rush the Lush and da Shadow.

I can just imagine driving that long, lonely drive from Amarillo to Dallas, setting the radio on search
and Huck's voice pops up. Home again! Vertical I am once more.
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eLwood, you knock me out with laughter some days. Today is one of 'em. Thanks, pal.

I think Huck needs to get a 10 gallon hat and a big car dealership to go with his budding empire. He can get him a catchy jingle and sponsor all night movies with his dog and have everything on earth except a 3rd wife.

Think of it....find Jesus, find Republican politics and get a damn good deal on a used Oldsmobile! Jesus Saves and now So Can You! Huckabee Motors!

HUCK THE NEXT PAUL HARVEY?

I wouldn't count on it for the long haul.

At the end of September, the non-existent "big fanfare" and roll-out of Huckabee's FOX TV show came . . . not from FOX but from the Huckster's personal website. That's anything BUT a huge vote of confidence from the FOX suits who, instead of giving Huck a big sendoff for his "premiere," referred all questions to his agent.

The word out of Hollywood is that FOX was always uncomfortable with Huck, but decided to take a chance on him before the election to hedge their bets.

BUT on November 4th, dear ones, Huck's base - the older, conservative, right-wing, religious South - got thoroughly trounced nationally, except on same-sex equality (oh, please, ye faith-based bloggers: Google those colorful fact-based maps on USA Today or anywhere else online showing the red streak through Arkansas, Tennessee, etc.).

The GOP is as we speak meeting at a swank hotel on Biscayne Bay and saying, "The Republican Party is ill situated to serve a changing America," and, "It's going to be worse in 2010." (See clicky)

FOX now sees the post-election ratings on the wall, and Chuck Norris and Mike Huckabee ain't it.

Rural, older, fundamentalist religious voters in the South (the GOP's base) have suddenly become the albatross 'round the GOP's neck (again at clicky). And there's no easily getting rid of them.

Not so, for TV's programming suits.

The old makes way for the new, generationally. Even younger evangelicals are less obsessive about same-sex equality, reproductive rights and science than their elders.

FOX TV looks at Huck's recent and current ratings in his slot. They're consistently nearly 40% less than Campbell Brown's same time slot on CNN.

Huck's got a year's contract, which FOX will honor whether they continue airing his losing proposition or not.

Maybe the Huckster will do better with his short form ABC morning radio gig. It's better suited to his short appeal span. He's fine in small doses: not so much in longer dollops.

Plus, on radio he's not SEEN; just heard. The radio gig demands but a few well-scripted zingers to reinforce Huck's supposed "folksy" charm and humor (with short sound-bite pretenses at commentary), rather than the demands of a long form TV show for which he's proved amateurishly unsuited.

Unfortunately, the ABC gig will be heard by virtually nobody but at least it will give the Huck a paycheck for a time.

Finally, the unmentionable rumor floating around Hollywood and the industry. Private leaks, they say, that could cost some careers, if traced. It's ALLEGED that the Huck ALLEGEDLY has chronic underlying health issues (cardio-gastro) that, like McCain's heavily redacted medical history, figure into his long-term public career.

Me? I have no idea. Personally, I think it's just more National Enquirer gossip. And Hollywood loves to gossip. But there it is.

eLwood, that's an insult to my home town boys known fondly and Lum 'n Abner!