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Drudge: DEMS HOLD FIRE ON HUCKABEE; SEE ‘EASY KILL’ IN GENERAL ELECTION

Drudge confirms something [1] I’ve suspected for a while, now:


**Exclusive**

Democrat party officials are avoiding any and all criticism of Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee, insiders reveal.

The Democratic National Committee has told staffers to hold all fire, until he secures the party's nomination.

The directive has come down from the highest levels within the party, according to a top source.

Within the DNC, Huckabee is known as the "glass jaw -- and they're just waiting to break it."

In the last three weeks since Huckabee's surge kicked in, the DNC hasn't released a single press release criticizing his rising candidacy.

The last DNC press release critical of Huckabee appeared back on March 2nd.

[DNC Press Release Attack Summary:

Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA) - 37% (99 press releases)
Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R-NY) - 28% (74)
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) - 24% (64)
Senator Fred Thompson (R-TN) - 8% (20)
Governor Mike Huckabee - 2% (4)]

In fact, as the story broke over the weekend that Huckabee said he wanted to isolate AIDS patients back in 1992, the DNC ignored the opportunity to slam the candidate from the left.

That Huckabee is arguably the most liberal of the Republican front runners…(Particularly in areas like foreign policy, health care, and so on ) would seem to enter into this, as well.

Of course, Mike Huckabee and company are deluding themselves:


A close friend to Huckabee explains: "Look, Mike is Hillary Clinton's worst nightmare. They should be squirming."

Maybe Huckabee bothers Hillary Clinton… but he doesn’t bother the Democrats. Indeed, he is certainly the best deal the Democrats could come up with, certainly, among the Republican front runners. If you broaden that field a bit, there’d be McCain… but of course, McCain hasn’t a prayer… to… ummmm… coin a phrase.

Here’s the thing;

When Reagan got elected, he had coat-tails which caused a seed change in America’s perception of government, and thereby, the voting habits of Americans. Sorry… but on that score Mike Huckabee is not Ronald Reagan, as has already been observed here.  There are a number of policy points where you cannot fit water between Mike Huckabee and left of center Democrats.  Worse, while he has very publicly taken up the flag of Boortz and his “fair tax” the way he speaks on the subjects suggest to me he doesn’t have the foggiest idea what it’s all about.  His implementation, thereby is going to be shaky at best, particularly with a democratic Congress.   Huckabee, thereby, does not constitute a seed change in our conceptualization of government.  he does not represent an electoral threat to their agenda, even if he does get elected.

I suggest that the Democrat’s worst nightmare is Fred Thompson. Not only is he more electable in the general election, because of the points that the democrats are currently sigering in their beer about, he does constitute a foundational change which will cause foundational change in the way we perceive government. He also understands the tax issue and has a quite workable solution on paper that he is banging away on, right now.   His coattails, should they grow large enough, will turn both houses of Congress back over to the republicans.  That is their deepest fear over in Howard Dean’s office, people.

There’s something else to all of this, as well; a short while ago we were treated in or a Clintons people saying that they had something on Barack Obama, the but they were not going to use it.  In short they were employing negative (or, if you prefer, reverse) psychology.  Is it possible that what we’re seeing out of Clinton, just now, also reverse psychology?

Something to think about.

Memeorandum has a fair amount of reax.

Addendum:  (David L)

Allah Pundit, Hot Air, is not buying   [2]Drudge’s take.   I say that Mike Huckabee’s naive appearance is no act.