Posted on 06/28/2010 3:24:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
After weeks of keeping himself in the headlines and growing more explicit about his intentions to run for president in 2012, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee touted himself as the Republican front-runner, The Hill reports. Speaking on "Fox News Sunday," Huckabee attempted to remain elusive about his presidential ambitions, but showed he is closely watching his poll numbers.
"I end up leading a lot of the polls," Huckabee said. "I'm the Republican that clearly at this point does better against Obama than any other Republican." About his presidential run, Huckabee added: "I haven't closed the door. I think that would be foolish on my part, especially when poll after poll shows that there is strong sentiment out there."
The 2012 Republican presidential field could also include Mitt Romney, who led early polling until Huckabee overtook him in April, and Sarah Palin. Huckabee said Sunday that he has "no doubt" Romney will be running, and praised both of his potential opponents. He said Romney has money and organization on his side, while Palin has "fire and energy" and fervent support from the Republican base.
Huckabee, who hosts a weekend show on the Fox News Channel, has kept up a steady stream of political pronouncements since he lost the 2008 primary to John McCain. Earlier this month, he received extensive coverage after a profile in The New Yorker quoted him cracking jokes about sex with former White House correspondent Helen Thomas and Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and calling gay sex "icky."
"The only thing worse than a torrid affair with sweet, sweet Nancy would be a torrid affair with Helen Thomas," Huckabee joked in an e-mail to the magazine's reporter, Ariel Levy. "If those were my only options, I'd probably be for same-sex marriage!"
In April, Huckabee faced what was seen as a setback to his presidential hopes when a man he had pardoned in Arkansas killed four police officers in Washington state. Politics Daily's Jill Lawrence wrote that it was "almost inconceivable" that Republican voters would unite behind Huckabee after the slayings.
Correct. Minnie Pearl Palin and her cult versus Mike the Medicine Show Salesman and his cult. Chances are they will cancel eachother out in the southern primaries.
Um, no...just no.
You Romney-bots amuse me.
I think the Huckster is greatly over-estimated, by himself, and by his crony backers!
He will shill for RINO Jeb Bush this time. The MSM is aready setting us up.
Demint/Daniels is my dream ticket. We need men of competance, not ditzy broads who play on the identity politics of flyover country.
HAHAHAHAHAHA, HUCKABEE? The front runner? This got to be Satire. He’d be mince meat in no time. The DNC would welcome it, the election will be revenge for Mondale’s loss of 49-1.
I figured the hurl alert was implied by the title...
ANY poll this far out is meaningless. At this point in the cycle, Birch Bayh was polling ahead of the Democrat pack in 1974. Jimmy Carter was even breaking 2%. Ted Kennedy would have beaten all of ‘em had he been a candidate based on those polls.
Also, when the number doesn’t crack 25%, and it doesn’t, it is even less meaningful, as other candidates’ supporters may go “anywhere BUT Huck.”
Go Sarah!
I like Inhofe/ Barbour
Palin is the new Fred Thompson and Huck is the new Huck. Both are certain losers in 2012
Ouch, I hope you have your flame suit on.
A candidate who has to say “Look at me, look at me!” isn’t really out in front.
‘Ditzy broads?’ Oh geez, you’re another one of ‘those’.
As for Huckabee? Hahahahahaha. You just keep believing that Huckster. The MSM trying to manipulate who our candidate will be again.
Wake me up when they're able to draw 20,000 screaming supporters at the drop of a hat.
i’m hoping and praying that there is someone still in the shadows... someone of whom we are not yet aware... Huckabee, no... Romney, no...
I don’t like Mike Huckabee. He’s on the radio station that I listen to every weekday. I can’t quite put my finger on why I feel that way, except to say he seems shallow intellectually and I think that he would blow with the wind in his decision making. I don’t trust him.
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