Jesus + Bubba = Glory

While it is early to get specific about head-to-head match-ups in the 2012 presidential race, it's nevertheless interesting to read well-told stories about what might be.

Here's a well-told story by Democratic thinker Dave "Mudcat" Saunders in the new political website "The Daily Caller".

The gospel according to "Mudcat" concludes:

"Looking way ahead to 2012, (Barack) Obama desperately needs to grab the throttle of the economic fairness train or he’s in serious danger of riding the early train back to Chicago. Who’s going to put him on the early train? I think it could very easily be Mike Huckabee. Since the days of Teddy Roosevelt, there has never been a better political landscape for economic populism than now. Besides being a Baptist preacher, which sits real well with his Republican base, Huckabee can also deliver a kick-ass populist sermon on the resurrection of economic fairness. Even with Huckabee’s sin, I believe if Obama doesn’t tackle the issue of economic fairness for all Americans, Bubba would resoundingly answer a Huckabee altar call in huge numbers in 2012. And remember… there are a bunch of Bubbas living everywhere, not just in rural America. There won’t be the same kind of “change” energy for Obama in 2012 that there was in 2008. Huckabee could win the White House using the same arithmetic Republican winners have used since 1980: Jesus + Bubba = Glory."

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