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Clegg to tap Huckabee fundraising firepower

by: Laura Clawson

Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 01:01:06 AM EDT
This is kind of hilarious: Mike Huckabee has started a PAC to "assist conservative, pro-life and pro-family candidates to Senate and House seats."

One of the first candidates named? Bob Clegg. So the guy who raised less than $20k in his House race this quarter is going to be getting some help from the guy who couldn't raise $16 million running for president.

And not that Huckabee's trying to position himself for running against the Democratic incumbent in 2012 or anything, singling out an NH Republican.
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Huckabee is as far from New Hampshire as one can be in the Republican Party (0.00 / 0)
So nice to hear that Clegg and Horn are incompetent in their candidacies.  It's comforting to know that Paul Hodes will, in fact, be a member of the 111th Congress.
which gives you incentive... (4.00 / 2)
to help keep your congresswoman in office. Carol is one of the finest members of the congress serving and she needs our help. Who can forget the vicious campaign Jeb ran against Martha? It set a new low for Republicans - if it were not for the Sununu phone jamming we would all remember 2002 for Jeb's personal attacks (over a million on Boston tv!)on Martha. We need to be prepared to defend our hardworking congresswoman against the GOP slime machine coming soon.

Democrats solve problems, Republicans sit and say no.
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Important as it is to keep both of them in office, (0.00 / 0)
I'll be working to elect Dems to the NH Senate this summer.
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Judging by what is happening (0.00 / 0)
with blowback re: Obama bashing, I think the Republican slime machine won't be effective. Like rats who have gotten the cheese at the end of their slimy maze over and over again by pushing the buttons of negativity and smear, they think it will work. What they'll find is the snap! Of the mousetrap.

People will not fall for it anymore. At least the swing voters won't. The hardcore Repubs--well some of them can't be helped. But some will cross to the sunny side of the street and vote Democratic. Of that I am certain.

Especially if, as Ghandi said (IIRC) We become the change we seek.

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From your lips... (0.00 / 0)
to God's ears! (or whatever the saying )

Democrats solve problems, Republicans sit and say no.
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am I alone (0.00 / 0)
in cringing at the thought of Huckabee, Clegg, and Chuck Norris on a NH stage??  
I swear I'm not making this up, (4.00 / 1)
but I remember reading once that Huckabee said that Clegg looked good in leather.

(referring to his motorcycle gear...)

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that is going to give me nightmares. (4.00 / 2)

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Considering that Huckabee was getting most of his (0.00 / 0)
financial support from the people who sponsored the Bushes, I find his continued involvement in campaigns for public office not surprising and slightly alarming.

I may be wrong, but it's my sense that McCain in not meant to go the distance.  Rather, his campaign is being used to try out themes and issues and see what plays best with the public.  It would not surprise me if at the Republican Convention, which takes place AFTER the Democratic Convention, another more lively, healthier candidate is chosen.  The rapidity with which the other candidates fell away has to be suspect in a year when Republicans have so much at stake.  Since there's sure to be a Democratic Congress, the only way for them to retain influence is to demoralize Democrats and capture the White House with a surprise candidate.  

That the Democratic candidates destroyed each other is a tried and true story line which will be trotted out again.

P.S. Huckabee has roots in New Hampshire.  He's got connections to the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth and the plane he likes to fly around in is owned by a group that's registered as a corporation in New Hampshire.

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