Some Romney and Huckabee Supporters Need To Cool It

Really.

I have to admit I have a tad of bias here. I never was a big supporter of Mitt Romney and a lot of this is being stoked by a minority of Romney supporters. Still Huckabee people respond and the Romney people respond and it all escalates into silliness. At some point who right or worng in the beginning is no longer the point.

NO ONE IS INTERESTED IN RE FIGHTING IOWA AGAIN.

Race42012 is where some this all so inside baseball is occuring with all the talk of conspiracies or plots. In some ways it such a small corner of the universe that perhaps I should not note it. But this occuring day after day after day does infect a much larger part of the Universe after time.

See just from the last week
Huck’s Army Keeps on Marching Against the Smears
Responding to Kristofer Lorelli
The Truth Behind Huckabee, David Schmidt and ARTL
A Baseless Smear of Huckabee
More Huckabee and ARTL

It does seem we are going into Political Black helicopters areas here. I am really starting to think this has little to so with Huckabee or Romney. Just supporters that on both sides got their feeling hurt and MY GOD WILL NOT GIVE AN INCH. So some imagined plot, conspiracy or crisis is dreamed up to keep the fight going. Including this now bizarre theory that Huckabee hates Palin is Controlling the American Right to Life and their recent attacks on her. That is just the latest. I am sure the Hucakbee folks saw some plot by the Romney folks recently.


One post on RACE42012 actually makes a good bit of sense here and should be warning for all Huckabee and ROmney supporters

Today’s SurveyUSA polls, posted earlier today on the site, paint a pretty accurate picture of the race for the GOP nod right now. Much like in an old Western, the Big Three of the race for 2012 are metaphorically facing one another, each holding a pistol in either hand pointed directly at one of the other two. Mitt Romney seems to be the candidate of blue state Republicans, with the North and the West Coast giving him the edge over Huckabee. Meanwhile, the former Arkansas governor is besting Mitt in the South. Palin, meanwhile, has yet to break through in either region but is making a strong third place showing, hoping that Mitt and Huck will fire on each other and leave her as the only candidate left standing. But what if, in typical Old West fashion, the three fire on one another, leaving no viable candidate to take on Obama?

This scenario isn’t particularly far-fetched, especially since Romney and Huckabee are about to enter a two-year-plus slug-fest that will almost certainly leave each candidate’s supporters pretty much despising the other candidate. Blue state Republicans will never choose a former Baptist minister with a Dixie accent over a fiscally tight businessman from Massachusetts. And red state Republicans will never pass up the guy with the drawl and southern swagger for a formerly pro-choice Mormon. But by the end of the campaign, with all the mud that is about to be slung, about half of the Republican Party will be convinced that Mitt is Nelson Rockefeller 2.0, while the other half of the GOP will come out believing that Huckabee is William Jennings Bryan or Huey Long. Mitt and Huck will almost certainly exploit all of the ways in which the other is “not a real conservative” for the next two and a half years, meaning that the winner will face guaranteed skepticism from Republicans and will be smarting among Independents after having to spend the entire primary season proving that they are too a “real conservative.”

With some caveats I think that makes some sense. I would just add I am not sure Huckabee or Romney are even thrilled with what some of their supporters are doing. People are going to tire of this "drama" after a while and might go looking elsewhere.

Needless to say 2009 is way to early to start it up again. Can we have a ceasefire for a while.