The Shot!

Yesterday we told you our feelings on Mike Huckabee’s “I want to be the cool candidate” strategy. Today we must continue to discuss Huckabee’s bad strategy streak.

Let us make something perfectly clear – we like Mike Huckabee. While we disagree with much of his fiscal policy, there is just something about the man that forces you to like him. We aren’t talking about Mike Huckabee here, rather his campaign strategy.

In case you don’t know, Mike Huckabee retains the highest paid campaign manager in the nation, Chip Saltsman, while having a very low fundraising capability. It seems to us that in the past week, Saltsman has led a team of bad political decision makers.

We’ve already looked at the Chuck Norris and Ric Flair endorsements. Now lets look at last night’s Bob Inglis endorsement.

WHAT!?!? Bob Inglis endorsed Mike Huckabee?

Yep, he did, but you wouldn’t know it if you picked up the paper this morning. In case you are not from South Carolina, Bob Inglis is the Congressman who represents Greenville and Spartanburg Counties, the GOP base of South Carolina. In other words, Inglis represents the most important part of one of the most important primary states in the nation.

But how did Huckabee roll out his big endorsement? Huckabee held a 8pm conference call on the Tuesday night before Thanksgiving. We aren’t quite sure what part of that is dumber. Is it the fact that:

1. It was at 8pm when reporters are already in their pjs watching reruns of CSI Miami?

2. It was a conference call, thus no cameras?

3. It was two days before Thanksgiving, half the world is off work today, and no one is reading the papers?

We are going to go with choices 1 and 2. Because frankly, it doesn’t matter if folks were checking out the news today…the Inglis endorsement made NO news!

We found one little two-line blurb in The State and one little thing on SCHOTLINE. But we found nothing on The Greenville News or Spartanburg Herald Journal’s websites, the two papers that cover the district.

And when we Google Newsed “Huckabee AND Inglis” we only found The State‘s blurb.

Huckabee is climbing in Iowa and making a lot of news. You would think he would take advantage of the situation and use the Inglis endorsement to show his momentum. However, he looks to be wasting the opportunity.

But then again, its not like Bob Inglis is the most popular man in the world among Republican primary voters right now. This endorsement could really hurt Mike Huckabee. Crap… forget everything we just said. Kudos to the Huckabee crew. They found a way to not offend a Congressman and hide his endorsement all at the same time. Smart strategy after all!

“In the Big Bob Inglis Congress, there’s a man whose fair and bright, who helps George W. Bushes, and sleeps in his office every night.” Oh, we love that.

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