Like In Brewster’s Millions

by dday

As for the Republican side, I am more and more convinced every day that None Of The Above is poised for a landslide victory. I’ve been following the GOP race fairly closely at one of my other haunts, The Right’s Field, and the sense you get when you pay attention is that Republican voters are sick to their stomachs from each and every one of them. That’s why they simply can’t decide which maroon to keep for the next year.

Dig beneath the surface of the raucous Republican presidential race and you will find even deeper turmoil: Four in 10 GOP voters have switched candidates in the past month alone, and nearly two-thirds say they may change their minds again.

This explains the meteoric rise of Mike Huckabee, and may just as much explain his fall once Republicans got a look at him (I’ve seen polls today showing Romney back in front). Every candidate in this GOP race has been at a high when voters didn’t know crap about them, followed by a gradual decline. Therefore, the ultimate Republican candidate this cycle would be a jar of air. “Looks good from here; is it pro-life?”

I mean, as much as Drop Dead Fred Thompson revealed his own sexism in reacting to the situation in Pakistan, Huckabee made 1999-era George Bush look like Juan Cole.

This morning on MSNBC, Huckabee said that Musharraf was unable to control Pakistan’s “eastern borders” with Afghanistan:

What we’ve seen happen is that in the Musharraf government, he has told us that he really does not have enough control of those eastern borders near Afghanistan to be able go after the terrorists. But on the other hand, he doesn’t want us going in because it violates his sovereignty.

Note to Huckabee: Pakistan shares its “eastern border” with India, not Afghanistan […]

Also yesterday, Huckabee addressed Bhutto’s death after “[striding] out to the strains of ‘Right Now’ by Van Halen.” He said the U.S. should weigh the impact Bhutto’s death would have on Pakistan’s “continued” martial law. But President Pervez Musharraf formally lifted the emergency rule in Pakistan on December 15th, nearly two weeks ago.

And when they asked a senior Huckabee aide about this (translation: some guy in Arkansas who had a clean enough suit), he admitted that his candidate had “no foreign policy credentials”.

Mike Huckabee: No Foreign Policy Credentials. For America.

And I am not buying the Rudy Giuliani “don’t win anything and become the nominee” strategy, or the John “I Am Legend” McCain comeback, or Mitt “My father guest-rapped on Planet Rock with Afrika Baambaataa” Romney, or the lot of them. In fact, they’d all better watch out or the guy diametrically opposed to their foreign policy beliefs might sneak in an grab a bunch of delegates.

Ron Paul — Rival campaigns are beginning to nervously speculate that Paul will finish in the top three on January 3. Paul broke double digits in at least two polls for the first time this week and he seems particularly strong in areas of the state where the media has less of an impact on political deliberations — especially in rural northwest and southern Iowa. Check out a Ron Paul supporters’ websites and you’ll see detailed discussions about caucus rules and strategy. The Paulites are more ready for caucus night than most observers realize.

Really, if you just quietly put the name “N.Oftheabove” onto the primary ballot all over the place, threw up a couple posts at Redstate saying how “This guy’s a true conservative. And he hates Muslims,” I’m thinking he could pull off the victory.

UPDATE: This is why all the GOP candidates are bringing the negative attacks, and I’m sure the whisper campaigns we haven’t heard about are even worse. By the way, can we stop with the CW talking point that “Iowans don’t like negative attacks”? Wasn’t this one of only three states to switch parties in 2004, going for George W. Bush and one of the nastiest campaigns in recent memory, Swift Boaters and all?

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