Huckabee’s Ace-Southern Governor

It seems the US can't get enough of southern Governors-Carter, Clinton, Bush and now Huckabee all since 1976 and if you add in California and Reagan, that is a Governor in the White House every term except for one during Bush 41's tenure.

The US hasn't elected a seated Senator to the White House since JFK. This doesn't bode well for the Democratic party. The problem is that Senators tend to leave too many skeletons in the closet to ever get elected, "I voted against before voting for," is a song just about every Senator could sing. The politicking in the Senate (and House) is so ugly and misconstrued that no Senator could defend every vote they might make.

More about Huckabee and Carter-At the end of the Vietnam War and President Lyndon Johnson's fumbling of the execution of the war to include trumping up a lie to get congress to authorize military attacks in the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution led to disillusionment with the presidency in the American people. This led to the unconstitutional (although not yet tried) War Powers Act to hamstring the president's military authority. Then the Watergate criminal acts of the Nixon administration led to even further disillusionment with the presidency for the American population.

Enter Jimmy Carter a bumbling peanut farmer from Georgia. The American people were so frustrated and disgusted with the US presidency that they elected someone who wasn't smart enough to play politics-or do anything else for that matter. Americans felt secure with the southern slow minded president who had no past to speak of and seemed to have very little ambition.

Could this be the same formula of success for Arkansas' Governor Mike Huckabee? Clinton proved to be slick with Monica gate and a wife that seemed as interested in running the country as he did fornicating with interns. The Clintons left the Democratic party in a mess with an incompetent Vice President only to run against another southern governor. The problem with this southern governor who has proven to be too slow to play politics is he surrounded himself with shady people who were much more intelligent than he was and also had agendas of their own. His presidency was hijacked by a couple special interest politicians and he's left watching the show. Reagan during his final years with Alzheimer's affecting his mind had a better idea of what was going on in the White House than Bush did on his most lucent days.

Change, like so often is the order of the day for the presidency. Yes, Barack Obama would be a change, but he is entirely too slick and political for Americans ever to trust him. It is funny because people didn't believe him because he was almost too good to be true. So he bared the flaws of his childhood. Even then Americans were too quick to forgive. When Barack Obama speaks, you hear a used car salesman telling you how much this '73 Gremlin will bring fulfillment to your life. At least with Hillary Clinton, you see her warts, you know her warts and that brings comfort to Americans.

Huckabee on the other hand has warts, but for the most part America looks at them and considers them benign. He's just an "aw shucks" Southern Baptist Minister that is socially conservative and fiscally liberal.

And just like every other southern governor, he'll be a disappointment also as president.