A Thousand Rewordings

Over the past month, Mike Huckabee has evinced his reliance on popular support and grassroots activism, implicitly challenging the notion that political nobility should arbitrate the semifinal set of presidential candidates. The conventional odds are against him, since spending every waking moment for the next year in Iowa and New Hampshire and South Carolina winning over a potential voter per minute would net him less than five percent of the vote in the primaries of those states. (Census State Populations) Convincing the probable primary voters of those states could yield him the nomination, though there is no sure way to know who those voters are. While Mike Huckabee continues to spend time courting individual voters, increasingly he depends on these voters, not merely to attract their friends and family, but to be exceptionally effective at doing so, since other campaigns partake of this phenomenon as well. So far, I have not been exceptionally effective at popularizing Mike Huckabee, in part because I have never promoted a political candidate before, and I suspect many who find him particularly appealing are in the same situation. So far, my difficulties lie in accurately portraying the parts of Huckabee's story that can inspire both me and those I know, and my amateur depictions leave them skeptical that he deserves their trust, compelling me to reword and rephrase and restate. Recently, I have realized that perhaps the best way to introduce them to Huckabee is to verify that they also value certain mores, assert that Huckabee is eminently qualified to uphold those mores, and show them videos of Huckabee in the spotlight. Certainly I could learn to articulate his allure and his record, but until I do, Mike Huckabee's personable, sincere, and charismatic demeanor and his considered, forthright, and intentional words are a better testament than I. Perhaps other members of Team Huckabee will likewise conclude that the painting itself is worth more to the viewer than the plaque describing it.