I would put Huckabee pretty far out on the crazy religious nutbag limb standing pretty close to Santorum.
He got pretty hateful and vengeful and evangelistic following his loss in the last election. I remember it seemed to me at the time that the smiling guy was a mask, with an intensely bitter man behind that mask. Especially on his show. On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com>wrote: > > I was just ruminating further on who Romney might pick as VP and I'm > starting to wonder about Huckabee. He's personable (I remember seeing > him on The Daily Show and was impressed by how he handled himself) and > while he is fairly moderate, his status as minister serves to placate > the religious right. Not the most exciting ticket in the world, but > who could possibly make a Romney ticket exciting? > > I also read an interesting bit today discussing a dark horse candidate > for VP that might actually energize the ticket: Gov. Luis Fortuño of > Puerto Rico. He endorsed Romey, he's working to push Puerto Rico > toward statehood, Romney is in favor of statehood and it might > represent a huge step toward bridging the gap with Hispanic voters. > Romney can claim a stake in the ground on an issue that he's not yet > flip flopped on 3 times already and try to appear genuine. > > I don't think that Romney is actually that bold and I think he'll > choose a totally boring VP candidate that continues to mire his > campaign in pit of apathy, but it's interesting to think what might > happen if he took a truly bold step. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:348581 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
