Comments on: Huckabee’s Fundraising – and Website – Woes http://rightsfield.com/2007/01/19/huckabees-fundraising-and-website-woes/ Holding Our Noses So You Don't Have To Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:35:06 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: The Right’s Field » Huckabee To Run On The Cheap http://rightsfield.com/2007/01/19/huckabees-fundraising-and-website-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-295 The Right’s Field » Huckabee To Run On The Cheap Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:20:09 +0000 http://rightsfield.com/2007/01/19/huckabees-fundraising-and-website-woes/#comment-295 [...] Comments You Decide 2008 » Blog Archive » Thursday Afternoon Roundup on Huckabee To Run On The CheapEmboldened » Blog Archive » Huckabee To Run On The Cheap on Huckabee's Fundraising - andWebsite - WoesYou Decide 2008 » Blog Archive » George Pataki “Effectively Out” on Pataki's Effectively OutMatt Browner Hamlin on Hagel: GOP "Needs to Get Back to What It Once Stood For"Kurt Williams on Hagel: GOP "Needs to Get Back to What It Once Stood For" [...] [...] Comments You Decide 2008 » Blog Archive » Thursday Afternoon Roundup on Huckabee To Run On The CheapEmboldened » Blog Archive » Huckabee To Run On The Cheap on Huckabee’s Fundraising – andWebsite – WoesYou Decide 2008 » Blog Archive » George Pataki “Effectively Out” on Pataki’s Effectively OutMatt Browner Hamlin on Hagel: GOP “Needs to Get Back to What It Once Stood For”Kurt Williams on Hagel: GOP “Needs to Get Back to What It Once Stood For” [...]

]]> By: Emboldened » Blog Archive » Huckabee To Run On The Cheap http://rightsfield.com/2007/01/19/huckabees-fundraising-and-website-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-291 Emboldened » Blog Archive » Huckabee To Run On The Cheap Thu, 01 Feb 2007 13:56:33 +0000 http://rightsfield.com/2007/01/19/huckabees-fundraising-and-website-woes/#comment-291 [...] Having documented some of Mike Huckabee’s fundraising woes, I can certainly appreciate his need to run an inexpensive. Moreover, he’s right: a candidate should be able to have a genuine conversation that doesn’t involve fleets of SUVs, private airplanes, and Rain Man suites at every hotel they stay in. The presidential campaign would be a more honest conversation if it weren’t prefaced by each candidate having to raise tens and hundreds of millions of dollars. [...] [...] Having documented some of Mike Huckabee’s fundraising woes, I can certainly appreciate his need to run an inexpensive. Moreover, he’s right: a candidate should be able to have a genuine conversation that doesn’t involve fleets of SUVs, private airplanes, and Rain Man suites at every hotel they stay in. The presidential campaign would be a more honest conversation if it weren’t prefaced by each candidate having to raise tens and hundreds of millions of dollars. [...]

]]> By: Matt Ortega http://rightsfield.com/2007/01/19/huckabees-fundraising-and-website-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-178 Matt Ortega Sat, 20 Jan 2007 03:23:26 +0000 http://rightsfield.com/2007/01/19/huckabees-fundraising-and-website-woes/#comment-178 Soren Dayton took a look at Huckabee's "donor base" and concludes it <a href="http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/01/19/so-who-gave-money-to-huckabee/" rel="nofollow">ain't much</a> to run a presidential on. Soren Dayton took a look at Huckabee’s “donor base” and concludes it ain’t much to run a presidential on.

]]> By: Matt Browner Hamlin http://rightsfield.com/2007/01/19/huckabees-fundraising-and-website-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-174 Matt Browner Hamlin Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:39:17 +0000 http://rightsfield.com/2007/01/19/huckabees-fundraising-and-website-woes/#comment-174 Makes sense to me - thanks for expanding your position John. Makes sense to me – thanks for expanding your position John.

]]> By: Trapper John http://rightsfield.com/2007/01/19/huckabees-fundraising-and-website-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-172 Trapper John Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:19:48 +0000 http://rightsfield.com/2007/01/19/huckabees-fundraising-and-website-woes/#comment-172 People aren't looking for a governor for a governor's sake -- they're looking for a skill set and a remove from Bush's foreign policy that only a governor can offer. Brownback, as a Senator, has a voting record a mile long that can be used against him, and he's much closer to the failed Iraq policy than Huckabee (or Gilmore). That's why governors are well positioned. People aren’t looking for a governor for a governor’s sake — they’re looking for a skill set and a remove from Bush’s foreign policy that only a governor can offer. Brownback, as a Senator, has a voting record a mile long that can be used against him, and he’s much closer to the failed Iraq policy than Huckabee (or Gilmore). That’s why governors are well positioned.

]]> By: Matt Browner Hamlin http://rightsfield.com/2007/01/19/huckabees-fundraising-and-website-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-168 Matt Browner Hamlin Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:02:14 +0000 http://rightsfield.com/2007/01/19/huckabees-fundraising-and-website-woes/#comment-168 Good points John, but I'm not sure why there needs to be a governor candidate to complete the field. Sure, it's where many a presidential nominee earns his chops, but is there a voter pool in the Republican caucus waiting for the right governor to emerge? I think Huckabee faces real opposition from Gilmore and Brownback too, but on ideological grounds, not their resumes. Good points John, but I’m not sure why there needs to be a governor candidate to complete the field. Sure, it’s where many a presidential nominee earns his chops, but is there a voter pool in the Republican caucus waiting for the right governor to emerge?

I think Huckabee faces real opposition from Gilmore and Brownback too, but on ideological grounds, not their resumes.

]]> By: Trapper John http://rightsfield.com/2007/01/19/huckabees-fundraising-and-website-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-166 Trapper John Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:05:17 +0000 http://rightsfield.com/2007/01/19/huckabees-fundraising-and-website-woes/#comment-166 All good points. But he fills a gaping niche in the field -- that of the solidly conservative governor -- and that should buy him a little time. Still, I agree that the clock is ticking, and that Huck needs to shit or get off the pot. One has to imagine that Jim Gilmore - a former RNC chair with access to a nice Rolodex -- could very easily supplant Huck as the non-Mormon conservative alternative, no matter how charming and less-fat-than-he-used-to-be Huck is. All good points. But he fills a gaping niche in the field — that of the solidly conservative governor — and that should buy him a little time. Still, I agree that the clock is ticking, and that Huck needs to shit or get off the pot. One has to imagine that Jim Gilmore – a former RNC chair with access to a nice Rolodex — could very easily supplant Huck as the non-Mormon conservative alternative, no matter how charming and less-fat-than-he-used-to-be Huck is.

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