I've said all along that Huckabee represents the GOP's best chance in 2012.

[Bicoastal]

Every other candidate except for him is either an unknown or tainted by past transgressions, either personal (Newt), political (Romney), business (Trump), or media-related (Palin). Huck has no such obvious baggage, and plus he's now a familiar face thanks to Fox News.

I'm not saying I'm scared of him, nor should we be. I just gotta wonder--if Huckabee gets the nomination, what's his most obvious Achilles heel?

[justgamma]

1. I always thought so too.

He's likeable. He doesn't seem smarmy or ditzy.

[Lost-in-FL]

2. Pardoning a killer is a huge dent, I think. nt

[dsc]

7. It wasn't just one killer

[bluestateguy]

3. He's soft on crime and turns loose cop killers and rapists onto the street

Obama will get to run HIS OWN Willie Horton ads against Hucklebee.

[ThatPoetGuy]

4. His most obvious Achilles heel:

he freed a rapist who went on to rape two more women and murder one of them.

He freed a convict who went on to shoot two cops to death.

It'd be so easy to Dukakis him.

[Johnyawl]

25. The convict he freed shoot FOUR cops.

[Hamlette]

5. his sermons

apparently he will not release them for some unknown reason which makes me think there are plenty of "Wright" moments in there.

[LLStarks]

6. Being a bat-shit insane social conservative is plenty enough baggage. nt

[sabrina 1]

8. Huck has loads of political baggage, not the least of which

was his releasing a killer on parole who then went on to murder again.

The one with the least baggage and the one who could probably get moderate Independents to vote for him, is Romney. He was a popular Governor of a pretty liberal state. He looks like the CEO of a major Corps which is what the job requires now, and to many people who are not that into politics, he seems like a nice guy.

I would not be worried about Huck, I would be far more worried about Romney.

[ThatPoetGuy]

16. Romney is a Mormon.

That won't play well with plenty of Americans.

[sabrina 1]

20. True, and that's sad. There a lot of people who do not like

having the religion of the president play any role in elections. Nor should it, but it does, and I'm sure a way will be found to emphasize that.

[jmowreader]

22. Romney will never make it past the teabaggers

Forty years ago, before we had teabaggers, a guy like Romney was at least viable. Mitt's problem is he signed a bill similar to Obama's healthcare reform.

[underpants]

9. I do too - he can attract some of the middle the others probably not

Romney however is simply a cardboard cutout that Fox News (with the "MSM" following) can be made into anything from a hard edged business man to a former secret ninja mercenary who waged war against the New Black Panters

[Drale]

10. If Huckabee is the best the GOP can trot out there

I like the future.

[patrice]

11. Dominionism & it's connection to the Chamber of Commerce, which give us

all of the excuse we need to talk Tax ChurchCo 24/7.

[tnvoter]

12. He's overweight

I realize this is a superficial assessment, but I think a block of voters won't vote for him because he doesn't look fit or "presidential."

[Brother Buzz]

18. To his credit, he dropped a ton of weight and is on board with Michelle Obama's Healthy Food thingy

[tridim]

13. And he lost in 2008 to freaking McCain.

Good luck Repukes.

[monmouth]

14. I would say that last family photo of all of them in the same outfit was

an abomination and should be heartily held against him.

[rocktivity]

15. Huckabee's problem is

stealth religious fanaticism.

And what's this about a family photo?



oh.

x(
rocktivity

[rgbecker]

23. By the looks of things, the lady of the house must be a good cook.

[Old and In the Way]

28. Or the boys have an aversion to hard work and/or exercise.

I'm guessing both.

[Old and In the Way]

26. Which one of the boys is the dog killer?

Do we really want to have a dysfunctional family that dresses alike in the WH? I think not.

[johnnypneumatic]

17. he wants christian lies "forced at gun point" on everyone

Mike Huckabee Wants Every American To Be ‘Forced At Gun Point’ To Learn From Radical Historian
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/31/mike-huckabee-david-barton/

he is also an extremist homophobic bigot

[AlanCranston]

19. Mike Huckabee

is basically Bill Dannemeyer with a nicer personality and not as open about what he really believes

[IDemo]

21. Huck and Newtie can talk about the Soviet threat backstage at the debates

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/05/mike-huckabee-janet-porter-soviet-spy

Mike Huckabee's close ties to far-right activists helped propel him to a second-place finish in the race for the GOP presidential nomination in 2008. But as the former Arkansas governor mulls another White House run, the incendiary remarks and outright paranoia of one of his close advisers serve as a reminder that Huckabee's greatest asset—his relationship with the religious right—may also be one of his greatest vulnerabilities.

Huckabee has joked that he "answers" to "two Janets." One is his wife, Janet Huckabee. The other is Janet Porter, the onetime co-chair of Huckabee's Faith and Values Coalition. And Porter, the former governor has said, is his "prophetic voice." But that voice has said some weird things over the years: Porter has maintained that Obama represents an "inhumane, sick, and sinister evil," and she has warned that Democrats want to throw Christians in jail merely for practicing their faith. She's attributed Haiti's high poverty rate to the fact that the country is "dedicated to Satan," and she suggested that gay marriage caused Noah's Flood. And there's this: In a 2009 column for conservative news site WorldNetDaily, Porter asserted that President Barack Obama is a Soviet secret agent, groomed since birth to destroy the United States from within.

[athenasatanjesus]

24. Ron Paul has a better chance.

People may laugh,but he's been gaining popularity since Obama's election,and the media passes him off as honest centered and reasonable.

[Blue-Jay]

27. RON PAUL has no chance in hell.

Sure, he does well in polls that RON PAUL fans can rig, but he has zero support from the rank & file GOP. He's a fucking joke.