Dem adviser: Pawlenty’s ‘uninspiring,’ Palin won’t be 2012 GOP candidate

For Shrum to leave Huckabee out of his assessment tells me that he is either a religious bigot or stupid. Whether he likes Huckabee or not, the former Arkansas Governor held the second most delegates in 2008 and is leading in every recent poll with the exception of Rasmussen where Romney leads. So it makes no logical sense to leave out Huckabee. While Shrum makes the assumption that the “religious right has grown accustomed to his Mormonism” (which I’m sure he bases on no data or research), he likely dismisses Huckabee because of his own religious intolerance of evangelicals. The only other logical reason I can see Shrum not including Huckabee in his assessment is because he doesn’t think for himself. He may just assume that since Rush Limbaugh bashed Huckabee in 2008 that he’s not a contender. It’s sad if Shrum can’t analyze things beyond that. Either way it shows me that Shrum should not be analyzing Republican politics.

Shrum, himself an unsuccessful campaign manager, is right to discout not only Palin and Pawlenty and Jindal, but he’s right to also ignore Huckabee. The Huckster was always only ever a regional candidate. He got the second most delegates only because he and his third-place status stayed in the contest after second-ranked Romney got out once he was mathematically eliminated. The move exposed Huckabee as either a self-promoter or McCain’s willing hatchetman and foil to Mitt Romney—and likely both.

You can disagree, but you’d be wrong. What you cannot disagree with is the fact that any Democrat would lovvvve to run against Mike Huckabee or Sarah Palin because they each are of questionable intelligence and truly only appeal to one faction of conservatives, and have very little appeal to independents, who now outnumber Democrats.

I’m assuming you think Palin and Huck are stupid because they’re evangelicals… Just a hunch. As far as Huck being regional, he was polling at the top of FL, MI and a few other “non-southern” states before the “conservative (ie libertarian)” talk radio folks like Limbaugh and Hannity declared an all out assault on him which is sadly almost impossible to overcome in a Republican primary when you’re new on the scene. I doubt Reagan, Bush, JFK or Obama could have done as well under similar circumstances. And when he was polling high people knew he was a minister at one point. You make another mistake by assuming that Christians are only attractive to a small portion of the REPUBLICAN base. Other than the liberal wing of the Democratic party, Dems don’t implicitly distrust Christians. Sadly an overwhelming majority of people in the media (Liberal and conservative) do and they try and portray that as a mirror of the general public, which it’s not. I don’t discout that Romney is a top guy in the GOP, but Huck is just as much.