{"id":4095,"date":"2007-12-15T21:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-15T21:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/12\/ed-rollins-huckabees-the-next.html"},"modified":"2007-12-15T21:07:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-15T21:07:00","slug":"ed-rollins-huckabees-the-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/12\/ed-rollins-huckabees-the-next.html","title":{"rendered":"Ed Rollins: Huckabee&#8217;s the next Reagan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/firstread.msnbc.msn.com\/archive\/2007\/12\/15\/518975.aspx\">What<\/a>???? Sheesh! That&#8217;s just ridiculous and an insult to Reagan:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Calling Huckabee &#8220;the next Reagan,&#8221; Ed Rollins joined Huckabee&#8217;s campaign team Friday as national campaign chairman and advisor.&#8221;I&#8217;ve looked for a long time to find a candidate similar to [Reagan]. Mike Huckabee impresses on me as that kind of candidate,&#8221; said Rollins, who ran Reagan&#8217;s 1984 campaign, winning all but Mondale&#8217;s home state of Minnesota, in Concord, N.H. &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of people running around talking about the Reagan days and who&#8217;s the next Reagan. I was with the old Reagan, and I can promise you this man comes as close to anyone to filling those shoes and having that ability to communicate.&#8221;Speaking at a Holiday Inn, Rollins added Huckabee has more than just support from Christian conservatives in Iowa. &#8220;What Mike has had is an ability to connect with people,&#8221; he said. &#8220;His message is an upbeat message, a message not of negativism, not a message of Wall Street, not a message of Washington. It&#8217;s a message about, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcI understand your problems. I&#8217;ve governed a small state with lots of problems.&#8217; Certainly, that&#8217;s what has great appeal here.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Would Reagan propose a national ban on smoking? Wouldn&#8217;t anti-Communist Reagan know what was going on in Cuba and would he flip-flop on the issue just to get elected (and admit that he was doing it)? Would he say that CEOs&#8217; pay should be regulated (even as a last resort)? Would Reagan speak negatively about the current economy? Would Reagan have called Bush arrogant? Would Reagan agree with Huckabee&#8217;s position on free trade?Would Reagan ever say this:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><object height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DaJW7nXw30A&amp;rel=1&amp;border=0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DaJW7nXw30A&amp;rel=1&amp;border=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Profound thanks&#8221; for taxes? Yeah, I could see Reagan saying that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What???? Sheesh! That&#8217;s just ridiculous and an insult to Reagan: Calling Huckabee &#8220;the next Reagan,&#8221; Ed Rollins joined Huckabee&#8217;s campaign team Friday as national campaign chairman and advisor.&#8221;I&#8217;ve looked for a long time to find a candidate similar to [Reagan]. Mike Huckabee impresses on me as that kind of candidate,&#8221; said Rollins, who ran Reagan&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[200,13,14,382,71,204],"class_list":["post-4095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-under-the-sun","tag-huckabee","tag-politics","tag-presidential-election","tag-reagan","tag-republicans","tag-taxes"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ed Rollins: Huckabee&#039;s the next Reagan - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/12\/ed-rollins-huckabees-the-next.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ed Rollins: Huckabee&#039;s the next Reagan - Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What???? 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