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You were expecting Romney? Guliani?

The nuts own the Republican party for now. That should be obvious from Palin. Even among the nuts Huck is the better choice.

For Now.

I'm a Bobby Jindal man. I don't see anyone else capturing the nomination in 2012. Remember you heard this first from Strangelove.

Nothing shocks me anymore. Except maybe McCain going to Georgia to campaign for a real sorry SOB, Saxby Chambliss.

The nuts own the Republican party for now.<<

Crackin me up Peabody3 !

Keep it up. Being head of the Republican
party is like winning first dance at the blind school.

Two years from now you will not admit that you voted for obama.

Two years from now, you will be ashamed to admit that you didn't vote for Obama.

It's not going to be easy and the economy is going to get worse, but the USA's image around the world improved 100% last Tuesday.

Obama will surround himself with smart people instead of rich political cronies, and he will actually listen to what they have to say.

I smell change in the air.....

Oh, my Hogger Blogger darlings, we must now climb out of the rabbit-hole of local hicks impressed by ANYBODY on TV who makes personal appearances in our state, and revector toward Reality.

You know, like NLR native Mary Steenburgen, whose every appearance in The Natural State is covered like the Third Coming or something.

Truth? Mary is a wonderfully talented actress whose fifteen-minutes of fame is long past. She's happily married to Ted Danson, similarly long past.

Wonderful people. No longer remotely A-List or even B-List viable in Hollywood, you Arkansas fame-whores. Neither of them can get much of a deal, if any, anymore.

Hollywood is a cruel but realistic mistress.

As, of course, am I. (Your net worth's below mid-eight-figures? Sing along to En Vogue's "Never Gonna Get it.")

Which brings me to Pillsbury Doughboy former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, whose FOX ratings are deservedly dismal.

In small doses, say bi-monthly, the Huckster's corny / cloying "banana republic" folksy audio soundbites on Imus seem fleetingly charming, until examined for their underlying arrogance and meanness and stupidity.

Seen weekly in the pudgy flesh, not so much. Even FOX's audience is over him already.

It's ALL about ratings, mouth-breathers.

Without 'em, Hollywood cuts and runs. Nicely and politely, but firmly. Far better men and women than Huck have tried and failed with their own TV shows.

The Republican Party won't hang its hopes on the Past, as it tried unsuccessfly to do with McCain and Palin.

Hell, even Sarah Palin is a second-rate runner-up in a third-rate beauty contest in an age where even the Miss America Pageant can't draw numbers because it's an historic relic that bores America to tears and can barely bribe a network to host it anymore. Nobody cares, since that old queen Bert Parks died. And I mean that in a nice way.

TV and Movies and Entertainment (and, increasingly, Politics) are relentlessly about NEW BLOOD!

Huckabee's old news. Stale toast.

Try as he may, it's like watching Mary Steenburgen or Ted Danson fight to regain their former A-List stature in Hollywood. To their credit, they're too intelligent and graceful to bother.

To Huckabee's detriment, he ISN'T! Clawing his futile way toward a national A-List status he's never earned or enjoyed, he looks like the hick wannabe he is.

Of course, he has vast appeal to America's population of OTHER small-town hick wannabes who can't, and never could, make it in the Big City or on the National Scene. Fame-whores, in other words.

It's all SO sad. (I'm not even beginning to get into the Huckster's ugly family "baggage" being exposed and dragged through the media mud should he be a Republican nominee for ANYTHING.)

I cannot tell you how it breaks my heart to have to deliver Huck's premature political obituary to you.

She said with a mysterious Mona Lisa smile.

"You know, like NLR native Mary Steenburgen, whose every appearance in The Natural State is covered like the Third Coming or something.

Truth? Mary is a wonderfully talented actress whose fifteen-minutes of fame is long past. She's happily married to Ted Danson, similarly long past."

Yes, but they turn out the Democrats to the voter rallies. Something that a blogger who has nothing better to do than look a gift horse in the mouth, can't do.

"Obama will surround himself with smart people instead of rich political cronies, and he will actually listen to what they have to say."

And just like with the Clinton group all those smart people will be hoping to move over into the " rich political cronies" column. B/c job security is guaranteed when you are one of the rich political cronies. And, their is not a smart person in the world who doesn't want job security if they are not already rich.

Saltsman is out of his league here. According to Drudge, Newt Gingrich and Michael Steele are also vying for the post. Saltsman is just looking for the next opportunity to make some cash - first Frist, then Huck, and now whoever else he can milk...

You guys got it all wrong. Gonna be Palin/Hickabee Republican ticket in 2012. Say, would Baptists allow that? Man's supposed to be the boss, right?
And Kizzy, don't scare me with the bright advisers bit. That's what hubby said about Reagan after proudly striding out of that voting booth in 1980. (Hard to believe it's been that long.) Just over a year later, he was out of a job. Eight long months surviving on a garden and buying beans with advances on our credit card wasn't fun. Neither were the two years or so it took us to get back on firm ground.
I hope we're better situated now, but I'm not sure given the last few months.
That reminds me. I've gotta point out to hubby that we managed to get through those times and so can some family types who just had to go buy a new truck -- "They're SO CHEAP now!" -- but are sweatin' Christmas. We'll buy some 'em beans, maybe even a turkey, but we're not making any truck payments!