David S. Broder at the Washington Post has a good op-ed on Huckabee’s plans to unseat Mitt Romney with inspiration from Pat Buchanan and Bill Clinton.
Buoyed by his surprise second-place finish in the Iowa Republican straw poll, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee is plotting an even bigger coup against Mitt Romney in the first presidential primary, in New Hampshire.
His inspiration for the audacious plot comes from two unlikely people: Pat Buchanan and Bill Clinton.
Clinton, the original man from Hope, Ark., Huckabee’s home town, was no better known to New Hampshire voters in the autumn of 1991 than Huckabee is today, while Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, leads the Granite State field. But, despite the Gennifer Flowers and draft-dodging scandals that plagued his campaign there, Clinton won enough friends to finish second in New Hampshire to 1992’s neighboring candidate, former Massachusetts senator Paul Tsongas.
At the end of the day Huckabee still needs to worry about the other GOP candidates but several of the other top candidates haven’t been as active in their campaigning as Huckabee and Romney and Huckabee’s money is starting to come in with 16 fundraisers coming up in the near future.
