Obama/Huckabee

[topaz]

The first person on my friends list to find me some Obama/Huckabee slash, I will LUV U 4-EVAR.

Damn, those Iowans are awesome.  I think the only combo I would have found more hysterical and implausible than this would have been Kucinich vs. Ron Paul.

Comments

[zsquirrelboy.livejournal.com]

Why so fond of Huckabee?

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

Because he's one of the most absurd candidates on the Republican slate. His social agenda is more extreme, he's least convincing as a national leader, and he has almost no credibility on the national stage. Almost all of the press he's been getting in the last couple of months about his "surge" in popularity has been to the effect of: "Are you KIDDING?"

So for Huckabee to take Iowa, especially by such a huge margin over Romney, represents a near-complete breakdown of any kind of cohesive strategy in the Republican party. That can be nothing but good for the Democrats. (Granted that they could still lose -- nobody knows how to kill a good thing as well as the Democratic Party does.)

[khedron.livejournal.com]

I hope that you're right. I know that large chunks of Ohio seem to be both religious and conservative; I worked for a while for a company in the Columbus suburbs and I think there were many people there who would vote for Huckabee. (And I'm not even talking about the guy who was living in fear of Nancy Pelosi. He's just ... different.)

[vespid-interest.livejournal.com]

Well, the movie "I <3 Huckabees" was supposed to be pretty good, so maybe he's getting some name-brand recognition there. Also some people like Applebees restaurant. I genuinely wonder if some people just fancy his name.

[jss]

A Google search of obama/huckabee rps slash returns 4 pages of results. None, however, look to be actual slash fiction. Omitting the "rps" from the query brings up this LJ entry as the first hit.

[laura47.livejournal.com]

why so hilarious?

I can explain!

[ratatosk.livejournal.com]

I think it has to do with their sexual histories -- you should check Google for that. I think there was some video for Obama on YouTube with a girl stripping or something, so maybe you should check there too. As to Kucinich, he has that whole UFO/aliens thing going, and Huckabee and Obama can't really compete with that. Paul comes in because he and Kucinich are old friends, and Kucinich said he'd like to have Paul as VP, but Paul said no, we're too different, so there was totally some angst you could work in there before the make-up sex.

Re: I can explain!

[laura47.livejournal.com]

1. I can't see how that is really about their sexual histories.
2. I don't see how Huckabee plays into this, except maybe with some anti-gay action.
3. I can see the Paul/Kucinich pairing, both for the hilarity and the implausibility, but I don't see how you have either of these with Obama/Huckster.

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

I explained more in my response to zsquirrelboy above. On a somewhat more serious note:

Not only is Obama the first black man to win, well, practically anything in a presidential race, Huckabee is the closest thing we have in this race to a representative of the Old South. There is an incredibly satisfying irony in having a black man face a conservative white Southern politician in a national race and hold the advantage.

[innerdoggie.livejournal.com]

Well, Huckabee is very conservative on social issues, but as far as I know, he's no racist and had black support in Arkansas. Many black folks are also conservative on social issues.

Huckabee is close to being a populist (in the libertarian sense of that) conservative on social issues, and willing to buck the free marketeers, criticize Wall Street, K Streets, and some of those other streets. However, the libertarians should like his plan to dump the income tax for sales tax.

Now I'm going to have to google all this and see if I'm right or just talking out my ....

[awfief.livejournal.com]

That advantage will be totally thrown out the window, though -- I bet the republicans want Obama to win the primaries, at which point they'll drag out OMG HE'S A MUSLIM!!! and then he'll never win.

However, I am amused that among John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama, I'd do any and all of 'em. vis a vis "John Edwards? Don't know what he stands for, but I'd do him!" Now, a nice threesome would be good slash.

I looked; couldn't find anything. Sorry. :(

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

Nah. They've been counting too much on Hillary to win so they can rely on their inexhaustible supply of anti-Hillary rage to bring out the base. I seriously don't think they know how to campaign against Obama. He's an articulate, charismatic black man who sounds like a Midwestern white guy. Even if he is a Muslim.

[docstrange.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I think they should fear Edwards more. As an independent who's voted for several parties in the past, mostly to try to get entrenched, corrupt candidates (R and D) out of office, I can tell you that the candidates' response re: most issues really doesn't do much for me, either party. I want a liberal federalist who believes in all our constitutional rights, not just their favorite three or so, and there's no such thing on the ballot. So I generally feel around for who's going to either stalemate a runaway Congress (have you read what happened in IL after the Democrats finally got the statehouse and governorship?! Sometimes a little need to circle wagons on the important issues gets more done than a free-for-all total control scenario!) or going to push through a very key issue when I don't trust the others to pull it off.

Anyhow, if Obama actually gets the nod, and the Republicans don't field a candidate with corrupt machine background, you can bet they will zoom in on his history in IL. People have talked it up a good deal, but his voting record is pure Mayor Daley machine, and that is most certainly not good for the poor, unless you believe in trickle-down economics disguised as social programs.

All they can throw at Edwards is the "slimy lawyer" card - and his history is class actions against large corporations and taking on civil rights suits, at both of which he's made LESS money than Nader did ripping corporations a new one. Not going to stick for very long.

I'd vote a Dean/Paul ticket in a heartbeat. I'd have voted for Dean, too, last time around if I'd had a chance.

politician slash

[queenmomcat.livejournal.com]

I must now wash my brain. I'm very amused.

[leeble.livejournal.com]

OK, so it's not what you were looking for, but as a link from somewhere else, it had such promise

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/01/an_imaginary_obamahuckabee_mat.html

[primal-pastry.livejournal.com]

I hear you! There's nothing like people just putting their cards on the table and saying "ok, here! This is what we're really gonna do with the country if we win". It's positively refreshing. :)