And the Villager Obama Race Puns Get Started

by: Matt Stoller

Thu Jan 10, 2008 at 09:28


Stuart Rothenberg, who is considered a nonpartisan forecaster and determines where party committees put resources, says the following:

Obama is a change candidate extraordinaire. Just look at him. Listen to him. Huckabee wants to be a change candidate as well. But he's a pale reflection of Obama, and not just in skin color.

The whole column is just a disaster.  Most of Rothenberg's argument is that Huckabee would forego the traditional GOP advantage on national security, unlike Rudy and McCain, and that he wouldn't be able to take advantage of Obama's inexperience on that front.  Rothenberg ignores the fact that Romney is in the exact same place as  Huckabee (and so is Rudy, save for the media fluffery), and of course, doesn't acknowledge that the Republicans no longer have a political advantage on national security, matching up evenly with Democrats on terrorism and falling behind Democrats on Iraq by 15 points.

It's also worth nothing that Huckabee and Obama are tied in Ohio, while Obama is far ahead of both Romney and Rudy (though behind McCain).

Really what Rothenberg is saying is that Republican establishment types just don't like Huckabee. 

But really that pun is unforgivable.  The Village is so tacky.

Matt Stoller :: And the Villager Obama Race Puns Get Started

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But really that pun is unforgivable.

Consider the source. I regret that anyone still pays attention to him, given his interpretive dance routine before and after the 2006 mid-terms.


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