Rod Dreher at Politico.com comments on Romney’s demand that Mike Huckabee apologize to President Bush for his describing the Bush Administration’s foreign policy as “arrogant”:
The pathetic Romney plaint is the mournful cry of a Republican establishment in meltdown. Last week, National Review Online blogger Lisa Schiffren, a Giuliani backer, laid into Mr. Huckabee with a screed pithily summarized by Mr. Douthat as, “Go back to Dogpatch, you stupid hillbilly.”
Alas for the GOP and for the old guard religious-right leadership, the view from Dogpatch these days is looking up for the populist Huckabee. Could it be that cultural and religious conservatives are fed up with being treated like useful idiots by the Republican establishment?
Huckabee should be the dream candidate for the Republicans, since they’ve spent the past seven years telling everyone God is on their side and against anyone who dissents. The opposition to him now is not over his religion; it’s over the fact that they fear he can’t get elected in the general election.
They may be right. The electorate *may* just be looking for logic over emotionalism after eight years of Bush’s feelings-based “leadership.”
The Estasblishment is against Huckabee, because they know he’s serious and he’s capable of actually getting into power.
Romney is being compared to “Joe Isuzu”