I wrote my old buddy, Babe the Blue Ox, recently, saying: Hilary loses to Huckabee or McCain in a heartbeat. But Obama can beat him.
Huckabee—It’s interesting. I fear the Christ-power, but in most ways, he’s a weak candidate. I know that we have a born-again president right now, but this really is an aberration. The genius of the Bush branding strategy is that he won over %100 of the white trash evangelicals, while normal right-wingers missed the crazy christian stuff, and just saw the good-guy/frat-boy/cowboy act. The strength of Bush, such as it is, is that he truly is an empty vessel. He just never says anything, and his deepest bloody-jesus talk is all in code. Some people see him as hard and vengeful, some as charming and fun, some as a holy-blood-guzzling Christian, and all that and barricading black neighborhoods in Florida added up to just enough votes.
But with Huckabee, its all right out front and center. He and his whole family are white-trash monsters. He’s a crazy preacher who talks to god from the podium. His son is a glock-toting dog-killer, and looks like he may really be a sociopath.
I mean this is real christian stuff, cult of death and sexual inversion. This is not Alkie George grabbing the phony born-again lifeline cause it’s the only way to save his Yankee Yalie ass. There’s a lot of people who will be seriously repulsed by hick like Huckabee. Yeah I know Bill was a charming musician outsider hick from Arkansas, but I don’t think that lighting strikes twice
Still, Hillary could lose to anybody. Her campaign must have the same moles in it that Kerry’s did. I don’t know if she’s fucking up in oversight, or if it’s her idea, but her campaign is earning a reputation as petty, hyper-manipulative and vicious. I want to like her. I’m trying. But I don’t. I hate her.
Please let us have us Obama.
