DeserTBoB used a stick in the sand to babble
They know that. That's why they like him. snip

The righttards in trailers, yes...but the ones closer to the political
center, the "mainline" congregations, have been vehemently opposed to
the war and all of Bush's antics for quite some time.

They aren't admitting it. Yes, some evangelicals voted for Kerry in
2004 and for some dozens of Democrats in Congress in 2006, but that
doesn't mean that they'll vote for Clinton or Obama in a general
election. Edwards, maybe.

Many of these
(such as well-off Episcopalians and the like) went for Bush based on
greed two times.

Not based on the fundies' greed. That was the price they forced us
all to pay for their social agenda.

Will they make the same choice with Huckabee, even
though he's got no credible record of prosperity (AND isn't the rabid
tax cutter that such a constituency wants) when they have Mitt to
promise them all that business acumen (warranted or not) to keep them
rolling in dough?

My impressions: I like a lot of what Huckabee says and has done. He's
very much a compassionate man. His particular faith and background as
a minister concern me. I think Romney's a fake. He's too pretty and
while he speaks well and says most of the right things when he's
prepared, he's slow on his feet and doesn't defend well in real time.
And there's something phoney or greasy about him that I don't like.
His faith doesn't concern me any more or less than Huckabee's.

I liked McCain in 2000 and 04, but he looks a little tired and
repetitive these days.

Downscale economically,
rightward-learning-but-still centrist church goers may perceive
Huckabee as a threat launched from the Southern Baptists. You
watch...those Congregationalists and Episcopalians in New Hampshire
will have NOTHING to do with Huckabee, even if he floods the state
with robotic church nuts to walk precincts.

Or clean, smiling, polite Christian kids.

On another front, the news was all over the nation's front pages this
morning...we're poised for the FOURTH "Dubya Recession"...prime
mortgages are melting down, employment is drying up,

According to CNN this afternoon, retailers are hiring.

the dollars is
sliding further, aided by the Chinese.

Not a problem. They're cashing in and we can work it to our advantage
if we go forward rather than **** and moan about it.

All of the sudden, I hear,
"It's the economy, stupid!" which kicked "Bush The Smarter" into the
political scrap heap in '92.

Yeah, and look at all the furor about Iraq these days. The issue
barely played in Iowa compared to others like immigration, values and
the economy and look how the support structured.

Could this be the remodeling job that
Clinton needs to beat Obama, or will Iraq and "change" trump the
economic message this time out?

Bad news in Iraq is good news for Clinton and Paul, bad news for
everybody else. If there's a terror attack check the candidates'
responses for coherence *and* for how quickly they deliver it to a
camera.

Swill