Dec
Huckabee – Not an Easy Kill
James P. Pinkerton, a former Reagan and George H.W. Bush staffer, says Huckabee would not be an “easy kill” for the Democrats. This comes in response to a Drudge story that the Democrats wants Huckabee to get the nomination because they think he would be the easiest to beat in the general election.
Within the DNC, Huckabee is known as the “glass jaw — and they’re just waiting to break it.”
However, Pinkerton says much the same thing was said about Ronald Reagan.
But it’s also possible that the Democrats might have miscalculated the Republican race – certainly plenty of Republicans have done so – and now they are spinning, while reassessing.
It’s happened before. Long ago, I worked in Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign. And I well remember Democratic politicos insisting that Reagan was the weakest Republican opponent that Jimmy Carter could face as he sought re-election that year. Was that “psychological warfare” by the Democrats? Or did they really think that the 69-year-old “cowboy” ex-actor – not yet known as “The Great Communicator” – would be the easiest Republican to beat? Probably a little of both.
But we all know this for sure: Reagan carried 44 of 50 states in the election against Carter. So the moral of the story is that predictions from hired-gun spin doctors are not to be trusted.
Will this be the case? I don’t know. I just thought this was an interesting insight from somebody that worked in the Reagan White House.
[...] From The Roundtable: James P. Pinkerton, a former Reagan and George H.W. Bush staffer, says Huckabee would not be an “easy kill” for the Democrats. This comes in response to a Drudge story that the Democrats wants Huckabee to get the nomination because they think he would be the easiest to beat in the general election. [...]
December 15th, 2007 at 12:39 pmhttp://wisegloden.blogsavy.com/2007/12/15/huckabee-wont-be-an-easy-kill/
December 15th, 2007 at 12:40 pm