Ruminations of an Expatriate

Though the guy seems to me to be only a suit and tie removed from the cave, I am loving the fact that the Huckabee campaign has caught fire. Huckabee’s surge has been at the expense of the mobbed up, inveterate liar Guiliani and the congenitally greasy Romney.

Probably since Nixon’s “Southern Strategy”, and certainly since the “Reagan Revolution”, the “country club” and Wall Street republicans (effete Eastern republican snobs. Sorry Spiro, though I still hope you thrash forever) have used the largely hapless “Christian Right” to gain and retain power by promising to address “social issues” of their concern. And for all of these years the Christian Right has toed the line, even tough the republicans paid scant attention to the “social agenda”.

Now the establishment republicans are faced with a somewhat populist Baptist minister, of the Christian Right, who comes across as a reasonable, nice guy, whose campaign is catching fire; and they’re nervous.

UPDATE: Here’s what Huckabee had to say on the subject during an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network.  I was led to the interview through Kevin Drum’s excellent Political Animal blog.

Huckabee: “There is a level of elitism that has existed, the chattering class if you will who lives in that corridor between Washington and Wall Street and they sort of live in their protected world, and frankly for a number of years many of them thought of people like me - whether it was because we were evangelicals or because maybe we were out from the middle of America. They were polite to us. They were more than happy for us to come to the rallies and stand in lines for hours to cheer on the candidates, appreciated us putting up the yard signs, going out and putting out the cards on peoples doors and making phone calls to the phone banks and - really appreciated all of our votes. But when they got elected, behind closed doors, they would laugh at us and speak with scorn and derision that we were, as one article I think once said “the easily led.” So there’s been almost this sort of, it’s okay if you guys get a seat on the bus, but don’t ever think about telling us where the bus is going to go.”

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