Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Ames Straw Poll, GOP, Huckabee, Pryor, Ron Paul
Whether he sees his glass as half full or half empty, Huckabee screwed the pooch on his chances for the GOP Presidential primary today. If I were Huckabee I wouldn’t have anything in my glass because I’d be drinking away my sorrows. He really lost his chance!!!
After winning second place in the Ames Straw Poll and ALL of the free media attention, Huckabee garnered only $1 million dollars in the 3rd quarter of fundraising. Basically, proving that he cannot compete at the level where he needs in order to continue his bid for the White House. And meanwhile, Ron Paul who finished 5th, raised over five times as much! Well with that being said, we here at political pressue no longer buy Huckabee’s claim that he is a top-tier candidate or that he is gaining traction with social conservatives.
Huck’s poor performance only shows he cannot capture the highly coveted religious right. He doesn’t have the organization to pull it together and he continues to get hammered by fiscal conservatives who smell his big government plans a mile away. How does Huck expect to be competitive in any state after pissing away this opportunity that was handed to him on a silver platter? His camp must be pretty embarrassed today.
Maybe Huck should take his funds back to Arkansas to run for Senate against Pryor, a very unfavorable and unpopular Democrat who sits on the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Committee, the Commerce, Science, & Transportation Committee, and the Select Committee on Ethics.
We could use him in the Senate… and it would be good for him too… he could learn some basic foreign policy instead of talking clueless on TV all the time concerning world affairs.
And please… if you have any good pressure points you want us to hit on any of the candidates send us an E-mail at politicalpressure@gmail.com.
