The GOP Sound Bite King


The following is from the Daily Beast. If you are looking for an example of someone who can consistently frame every single thought into a perfect sound bite, then look no further that Mike Huckabee. 

Mike Huckabee is saying what a lot of people are thinking about the danger of Obama tangling with the Clintons. “If he’s floating that balloon it better fly, because I think that to float the idea, and then to pull it away, I just think it would be disastrous for him from a public relations standpoint,” the former Arkansas governor told The New Yorker’s Lauren Collins. “It would be twice having rung the doorbell and not taken her to the dance.” The Obama camp is playing with fire, he suggests. “Surely they did know that she was married, and that her husband is named Bill, and that he used to be President. It wasn’t like they woke up and said, ‘Oh my, you know, I forgot all about him.’ You don’t open the door when you’re pretty sure there’s fire on the other side of it that’s going to come in and scorch the room.” Hot stuff.

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Huckabee consistently speaks in concrete, visual terms. He uses humor and emotion. His communication skills alone almost garnered him the GOP nomination in 2008–and this was when he had no money, no name ID and no national platform. Come 2112, Huckabee will have have all of those things, plus superior communications skills. He’s my pick for the early GOP front-runner for 2112.

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  1. #1 by Brian Darby on November 21, 2008 - 1:45 pm

    Mike will be a bit old in 2112.
    2012 will be better timing.

  2. #2 by TJ Walker on November 21, 2008 - 3:57 pm

    Sorry! You got me. It should be 2012. Though Huckabee, being a biblical literalist, does believe in Methuselah

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