Huckabee Adds a Fourth “Girlfriend” to His Campaign (Update: Looks Like Three’s Enough for Him)
Mike Huckabee’s plans get more ridiculous as the days go on. Today, his campaign has said that he wants to pass a Constitutional amendment that would remove “birthright citizenship”. Well, okay.
Putting aside the merits of the issue, I wonder how he plans to get that amendment passed? It will be a very tough push to get 2/3 of the Congress and 3/4 of the state legislatures to vote for such a thing and it doesn’t look like he has much of a plan to make that happen.
It’s also hard to see where that amendment will come in the choo-choo train of other Constitutional amendments he wants to pass. There’s the Human Life Amendment, the Defense of Marriage Amendment, and the Repeal the 16th Amendment Amendment (which is the only way he can get the Fair Tax he wants).
Mike Huckabee reminds me of a man dating four women at the same time. Oh sure, so long as the contact is casual – dinner and a movie, maybe a work party or two – there’s no problem. But once things start to get a little bit serious, Mr. I Can Handle My Four Women starts to get into the kind of trouble you can only see in romantic comedies starring Matt Damon or Josh Hartness. Constitutional amendments are not casual dates. They require attention, lots and lots of attention. And unless they are obviously and widely popular, they are strictly exclusive. Huckabee wants us to think that he’ll be able everyone happy and blissfully ignorant of the others while he’s running his campaign and he may well be right. But when all four girlfriends show up on his front step at the same time and start comparing notes, it not going to be the movie standard “and wackiness ensues”. There’s going to be hell to pay when everyone realizes that he’s been promising a ton more than he could ever deliver.
UPDATE: It appears the Washington Times story was a bit premature. Byron York received a statement from Huckabee’s campaign. The short version: “I’m not dating that fourth girl! Why, I didn’t even talk to her!”.
Well, good. So now he’ll only have to spend his time pushing three amendments through the country. That ought to be a picnic, don’t you think?
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