POLITICAL THEATER, PART TWO -- THE SURVIVOR GAME
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THE POLITICAL THEATER, PART II
I spent some time watching Governor Huckabee on the stump in new Hampshire (via C Span). He is extremely effective, smooth without being insincere and he is cogent. Now I get it. Few presidential candidates have ever been as effective communicators as Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. Mike Huckabee is Bill Clinton without the character flaws.
Whether he survives “Super Tuesday” remains to be seen…
The Survivor Game
Here’s an insight I owe to my brother, Jack:
The campaigns are eerily like episodes of Survivor, the reality television genre where contestants scheme with each other to vote out promising candidates, less on merit than to head off a potential leadership threat. If we could just disconnect ourselves from all those pesky “issues” the whole spectacle would be pure entertainment – filling the writers’ strike gap.
A more pressing issue is whether Hillary will survive:
As Kate Snow (ABC correspondent) reported yesterday: Hillary is speaking to supporters in a below freezing airplane hangar in Nashua, N.H
“Of all the people running for president, I've been the most vetted, the most investigated, and my goodness, the most innocent it turns out.”
I saw this clip on television and felt for a fleeting moment that I was seeing a campaign in the process of an uncontrolled nose dive.
Nixon 1973
“People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got.”
Indeed.
The voters are restless…
JBG
