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Hillary Clinton is damaged goods. She is beaten up and worn out. She has health issues and people are not very excited about her, even on the left. She has had her chance and her time is past.
Also, she does not want to go through all of this again just to lose. What's more, it is not clear that she wants to go through the hassle and grind of being president for 4-8 years either.
She is not going to run. Watch and see.
I don't disagree with your overall assessment she was a better candidate seven years ago. Still, if she does decide to run, and I think she will because the establishment will all but force her to, the nomination is hers. The good news for the Republicans is they will know who there opponent is well in advance so can pick their champion accordingly. The bad news for the Republicans is that they're f'ng loonies so far off kilter they'll use this tactical advantage to pick the most bat**** crazy they can find.
Yeah, I do not know Carson either. Since I am not familiar with him, it is hard to believe that he is a serious candidate. That's why I have been focusing on Huckabee, because he was a serious candidate in 2008 and will be again this time.
Isn't Huckabee extremely socially conservative and somewhat fiscally moderate? While that might work for evangelical Christians who aren't really comfortable with making it more difficult for people to obtain help from social programs, I don't think that's really the direction the Republican party is going. They're gradually becoming more socially moderate while tightening down on being fiscally conservative.
"God, guns, grits and gravy?" Sorry, but that's a long way from a blanket description of "flyover country."
You don't remember President Obama making a similar remark and being attacked for it? That clip would come back to haunt Huckabee, not Jon Stewart. Just between us, I don't think that Stewart can really be called "breathtakingly arrogant"...guaranteed, HE remembers the brouhaha when Obama made a similar remark.
It might come back to haunt him among the Elizabeth Warren groupies. LOL. No one else is going to see anything offensive from anyone in that clip other than Jon Stewart.
I don't disagree with your overall assessment she was a better candidate seven years ago. Still, if she does decide to run, and I think she will because the establishment will all but force her to, the nomination is hers. The good news for the Republicans is they will know who there opponent is well in advance so can pick their champion accordingly. The bad news for the Republicans is that they're f'ng loonies so far off kilter they'll use this tactical advantage to pick the most bat**** crazy they can find.
Isn't Huckabee extremely socially conservative and somewhat fiscally moderate? While that might work for evangelical Christians who aren't really comfortable with making it more difficult for people to obtain help from social programs, I don't think that's really the direction the Republican party is going. They're gradually becoming more socially moderate while tightening down on being fiscally conservative.
Agreed. A candidate like Huck -- a committed Christian with weak ties to the business community -- has never been nominated by the GOP. Bush pushed the Christian angle, and I think it was sincere, but really it was his pro-business stances that got him the nomination... the Christian values was just a little window dressing for the cheap seats. Huck's a bit too beholden to concepts like Christian charity to ever really get a second look from the folks who are going to pick the nominee.
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