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.

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[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.