August 7, 2008

 

Light years ago at the beginning of one of the most implicating eras in our history, young John Kennedy , a presidential candidate was coupled with a man as his running mate who was the antithesis of what he himself was about. That arm twisting, pork barrel Democrat Conservative was Lyndon Baines Johnson and the odd maneuver was termed the Southern Strategy. Obviously, the thinking at the time was that Johnson could rope in the entire South, a region always known for similar values and loyal to a lance man. In 2008, and especially considering the enormous influence of the religious Conservative vote, Huckabee could conceivably accomplish the same thing. I find Huckabee to be a fabulous and charismatic speaker, poised and educated and very deftly capable of speaking off the teleprompter. He is folksy and lovable and has that "let's go for a beer image". Blue collar voters like him. There is the same notion concerning Romney that envelopes either of the top of the ticket candidates that they can fix the economy. As I have noted many times with respect to the others, Romney is a big businessman who ran a retail chain. He is not an economist or a CPA nor worked on a Federal level in a related agency. I really like Mr. Romney, visually he  is without a doubt the most attractive looking candidate I have ever seen. The Mormon issue is something that I will never in my life agree with, ascribe to or validate. American politics can be quirky, unforgiving and in the case of discrimination against Romney because of these preconceived notions are indeed very nasty and patently unfair to  him. Unfortunately, however distasteful, you have to take it as it comes in political analysis and commentary and I have to say the Republican ticket will lose to an outrageous and unqualified candidate if they go with Romney. The Moody Blues nailed it when they penned the tune "Isn't life strange?"

 

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