Posted on 03/20/2013 12:08:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has revealed to Newsmax that he is looking at a possible bid for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016.
Asked in a Newsmax TV interview if he is considering another White House run, Huckabee declares: “Yeah, I’m not ruling it out at this point.
“I’m not sitting around having meetings with the strategic team, but it’s something I will certainly look at and I’m talking to some people just to determine whether it’s a kamikaze raid or whether it has potential and possibility.”
Huckabee, who was governor of Arkansas for more than a decade up until 1997, will be 61 by the time of the 2016 election.
He was generally seen as coming in third in the 2008 GOP primaries behind eventual winner John McCain and Mitt Romney........
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I am a “so-con” as well and I would never vote for that lying, predator pardoning, weasel. I’d just as soon vote for Mike Dukakis.
LOL
He should not waste his own or other people’s money on this. It is a waste of time.
The huckster has his cult followers. I know of no one in history that left in the middle of a campaign to go to the Cayman islands...for a book signing and speech(?). Said he needed the money...while his wifey was flying back and forth on a private jet to Vegas....
Id say he rated between Clinton and obama.....
Ok this is getting really ridiculous, it’s like watching a Freddy Kruger movie, just when you think he is gone he comes back to life.
Oh no!!!!! Not again!!!!! I’d tell him I don’t believe he’s listening to G-d!!!, just to his own ego.
The huckster has his cult followers.
So did Jim Jones, Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggert.
yeppers
I'm one of those social conservatives who supported Huckabee in 2008 and Santorum in 2012.
I'm not denying that Huckabee has problems. Same for Santorum. If you can find a better social conservative candidate, I'll listen. But if your goal is a perfect candidate, I think we'll find the only perfect candidate died on a cross two thousand years ago, and even He doesn't qualify because He wasn't a natural born citizen of the United States. Anyway, the King of kings and Lord of lords isn't interested in being demoted to a mere presidency.
Let's get things clear up front: we all know the Republican Party is a three-legged stool of economic conservatives, national defense conservatives, and social conservatives. I happen to support all three legs of that stool and I'll vote for someone whose passion is economic or military conservatism as long as they're not in support of abortion, homosexuality, and some other key culture-destroying forms of wickedness.
But if we're going to win as conservatives in 2016, we need **ALL THREE WINGS** of the conservative movement. Don't tell social conservatives to go to the back of the bus — we're just as conservative as the rest of you, and I'd argue that ethnic white Catholic voters, southern rural voters, and practicing Hispanic Roman Catholic voters are key groups which can be pried away from the Democratic Party **ONLY** by social conservative candidates.
Criticize Huckabee for his failings. Same for Santorum. But don't argue that social conservatives have no place in the Republican Party, or that we can't win elections. On the contrary, I think consistent social conservative candidates may be some of the very few people who have a realistic chance at getting non-Republicans to vote Republican.
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