Huckabee Shines With Limited Time
I must seem like a broken record to some, but last night's GOP Presidential candidate debate on CNBC once again showcased the media kingmakers attempt to create a self fulfilling prophecy of "top tier" by biasing in every way shape and form their questions towards the robot candidates... Romney, Giuliani, and Thompson. Robot candidates, ie candidate-o-matic or candidate 3000, are only capable of running pre-programmed algorithms of talking points, random numbers, and overly scripted humor.
In the few questions that Mike Huckabee was allowed to answer, he clearly shined through. In fact, while applause was very limited in this debate, Huckabee's answers on a hypothetical Iran first strike situation and on health care generated support from the audience. He is also starting to have an impact on the language of the tax debate. His support of the FairTax and the overwhelming grassroots efforts by FairTax supporters have actually gotten Romney talking about "embedded taxes" and McCain talking about making the tax code "flatter and fairer". When your candidate is the one that the others are emulating, that is a sign of success.
I read on another blog earlier, and am killing myself trying to find the source, where someone had a brilliant point of view that while the other candidates filled their time with "when I was *insert office held here* I did this" Huckabee always seems to lay out a plan for the future and how he hopes to accomplish a goal without just tooting his own horn and confusing people with random numbers that seem to change with each debate. How true that is. Records are important, but they don't answer the question at hand. Stick to the point already.
Again, kudos to Mike Huckabee and jeers to CNBC. You know what though? CNBC's logic may fail in the end. I see a lot of dedicated Huckabee supporters upset at the slight who are redoubling their efforts to get Mike's message into the public arena. So ya, kudos also to all the hardcore Huckabee supporters. We're winning.
I just caught bits and pieces of this debate … but, DVR’d it and plan on watching it tonight. I can’t believe that Chris Matthews was allowed to host it. I have CNBC on through most of the trading day and they have a plethora of apt commentators and hosts. Yet, they resort back to Chris Matthews from the MSNBC side of the house?
Yes, he’s horrible. Again, quoting from someone else I read, it’s like having Pat Buchanan moderating the Dem debates.
These debates have given too much power to the moderators. It’s a shame the candidates can’t simply be asked all the same questions, for the same period of time. They start the candidates from a position of inequality and then trumpet the numbers of the people they give a disproportionate amount of time to. The media needs to treat every candidate equally and let us make the decision. This is about the candidates, not the moderators!
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