Posted on 11/13/2014 6:08:27 AM PST by kingattax
It is looking increasingly likely that former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, 59, will make a presidential run in 2016, according to The Washington Post.
Though he is presently a Fox News host, Huckabee is hiring staff for his new advocacy group, holding meetings with prospective donors, and conducting trips with religious leaders as well as scheduling strategy sessions for a possible candidacy.
With actions speaking louder than words, America Takes Action, Huckabee’s advocacy group, recently hired staff familiar with political campaigns.
Huckabee will leave this week for a 10-day overseas trip with more than 100 pastors and GOP colleagues. The trip is devoted to honoring three conservative icons who fought communism and is called the “Reagan, Thatcher, Pope John Paul II tour.”
Later this month Huckabee has meetings scheduled with financiers in Las Vegas, New York, and California. In December, Huckabee will host two strategy sessions, one in Little Rock and one in Destin, Florida.
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Agreed. Cruz has to expand his base to win. He doesn’t need to “move to the center”, but needs to make moves to expand his base. He has established himself as a strong social conservative. He can reaffirm that when asked, but probably shouldn’t press the issues else risk being stuck splitting that percentage with Santuckabee. He can run a broad based campaign and then inherit the Santuckabee vote when they drop out.
I like Cruz/Walker or Walker/Cruz....whichever has the better chance.
Huck more staying power than Gingrich?????
Sorry, that dawg won’t hunt. Huck doesn’t have a tenth the talent Newt did, and would never have been a factor. Oh, he’ll stay in but his viability would have zero staying power. Zero starting power for that matter.
There’s about 30% of the Iowa Caucus electorate (which is a teeny tiny population by the way) who are going to vote for the guy who thumps the Bible the loudest, regardless of anything else. That’s the Huckatorum nation.
In 2008 he was in cahoots with McCain to keep Romney from getting a head of steam in the primaries.
In all probability, his purpose in 2016 would be to tie up the evangelical/religious votes to keep them away from any real conservative who might challenge the GOPelite selectee.
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Of course, the field already has up to 32 potential wannabes on the Republican side. Many of those claim to be conservatives, so it is likely they will repeat the 2008/2012 strategies of splitting the conservative votes over several candidates.
Yawn.
Book tour candidacy.
If he hasn’t been approved by members of the Bohemian Grove he won’t win.
He’ll end up being the Santorum of 2016
Any hopes of keeping the number of Republican candidates below a dozen? It looks doubtful. There is a point around seven or eight candidates where the primary and particularly the debates become a circus with so many candidates.
Who?
Huckster will be funded by Karl Rove to dilute the conservative vote.
Don’t fall for it!
Please Huck. . stay on fox news, keep eating and playing guitar. 2016 should belong only to Ted Cruz!
With the 2017 POTUS slot suddenly looking very possible for a Republican, I expect a huge field.
Unfortunately we don’t have a good method for staging the primaries/caucuses.
They should be sequentially in order of Republican voting percentage in the last election.
His campaign won’t even survive the fund raising phase much less actual campaigning.
Well yes, but there were two times during the campaign that a winning formula was found. And both times, it was a Newt surge and a Newt message. That was about a month before Iowa, and then the entire week of SC.
Huck could never do that. Romney could too, but Romney had many advantages over Huck. And of course, my base theory is that Huck in 12 would have blunted Santorum, not Romney. There’s probably not a single voter torn between Romney and Huck. The Huck voter, meanwhile, IS the Santorum voter. They will split them in 16 and Cruz will pick off a few of these too - but he’ll have a much bigger coalition.
I’m guessing...
1. Cruz, 2. Walker (Ryan won’t if Walker does), 3. Christie, 4. Paul, 5. Jeb or Rubio (one won’t if the other does), 6. Huckabee I guess reading this, 7. Carson or some other ‘outsider’, 8. Perry, 9. Kasich, 10. Maybe Romney
Crowded field.
If there are that many candidates, the early primaries will be decided by the size of candidates’ base. I’d have to think that would favor Ted Cruz and Rand Paul.
Huck and Santorum got their support by default. They were the only pure social conservatives in the respective races. You could argue Gingrich, but the guy has negative connotation and baggage. Assuming Cruz runs, he should be able to get this vote along with a broader appeal.
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