Ed Rollins To Run Huckabee’s Campaign
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, HuckabeeI don’t usually post about spin doctors, but this is different.
You see, a certain Arkansas governor succeeded in ‘92 because he had a very skilled campaign guru by the name of James Carville on his side. Obviously it wasn’t the only reason, but it was a big one. And now another Arkansas governor has his Carville…in the form of Ed Rollins.
Mike Huckabee just got real real:
WASHINGTON (CNN) — A veteran Republican strategist considered by many the architect of Ronald Reagan’s 1984 landslide election victory is set to take the helm of Mike Huckabee’s surging presidential bid, CNN has learned.Ed Rollins — the longtime GOP strategist who worked in the Reagan White House, ran former Sen. Jack Kemp’s 1988 White House run, and played a key role in Ross Perot’s 1992 presidential bid — will be formally named Huckabee’s national campaign chairman later Friday at an event in New Hampshire.
Rollins told CNN’s John King that over the last several months he has become “more and more impressed by the day” with Huckabee.
Who knows, maybe Rollins doesn’t have his finger on the pulse. Maybe he doesn’t know what’s going on right now. But something tells me he’s going to help Huckabee navigate the GOP mine fields and will help the governor turn his campaign into a much more populist movement.
The rise of real compassionate conservatism is upon us.
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December 14th, 2007 at 1:43 pm
Gross.
December 15th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
All Fiscal Cons and Libertarians need to unite behind one candidate to ward off the Huck-Monster. He is everything that we oppose - “fiscally liberal and socially conservative.” Huck? Double - Yuck!
I’m a big “Libertarian for Giuliani.” Have been for over a year.
But even I’m willing to switch to Romney if it would help unite all Fiscal Cons behind one candidate to challenge Huckabee. National Review, the icon for libertarian conservatives, recently endorsed Romney. And libertarian Republican Bill Weld is formally backing him.
The Ron Paul people need to wake up and realize that this Huckabee threat is for real. Paul is way behind other Fiscal Cons like Giuliani, Romney and even Fred Thompson in the polls.
If we all don’t agree on one candidate soon - the Thompson people, the Romney people, the Giuliani people, AND the Paul people - we’re screwed!