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Mike Huckabee eyes 2016 presidential bid; pastors press him to run
The Washington Examiner's Washington Secrets ^ | December 7, 2013 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 12/08/2013 7:43:42 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a 2008 GOP presidential candidate turned media personality, is looking at another bid for the presidency, this time backed by ministers eager to put an evangelical into the White House.

Huckabee will test the waters when he returns home to Little Rock, Ark., December 12-13 to address the Arkansas Renewal Project, part of evangelical organizer David Lane's American Renewal Project. Huckabee had the support of pastors in his 2008 fight against eventual winner Sen. John McCain.

Among the potential candidates looking at a GOP bid, Huckabee is closest to the pastors. He is a social conservative who can quote the Bible as easy as former President Bill Clinton.

According to reports, pastors from Iowa and South Carolina — two key political states early in the GOP primary season — are meeting with Huckabee during the convention to urge him to run....


TOPICS: Arkansas; Campaign News; Issues; Parties
KEYWORDS: 2016; 2016election; 2016gopprimary; arkansas; election2016; gop; huckabee; huckabee2016; mikehuckabee
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Huck you maybe a fine person, please please do NOT run for president.


21 posted on 12/08/2013 7:59:34 PM PST by svcw (Not 'hope and change' but 'dopes in chains')
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Go away. You already tired, you do not have a constituency big enough for anything. Pure ego now.


22 posted on 12/08/2013 8:00:23 PM PST by Bainbridge
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

His effort to take down Rush Limbaugh doesn’t exactly endear him to conservatives.


23 posted on 12/08/2013 8:00:40 PM PST by iowamark (I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No way.


24 posted on 12/08/2013 8:01:12 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
This is just to keep him in the public eye, keep those checks coming in from his supporters.

I can't stand him. I will not vote for him for president, and I won't vote for the Republican ticket if he is the VP nominee.

25 posted on 12/08/2013 8:03:00 PM PST by TChad
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The GOP is dead.


26 posted on 12/08/2013 8:03:34 PM PST by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Between his rabid catering to illegals when he was governor, and his propensity to liberally commute sentences of questionable criminals just on the basis they claim to have found Jesus, I’ve never really had any serious consideration for Huckabee.

Not that I “hate” him or anything. Just don’t particularly trust him or his brand of leadership, thanks to that bleeding-heart side of him.


27 posted on 12/08/2013 8:03:46 PM PST by greene66
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Huckabee is a hypocritical fake.

He is a snakeoil salesman.


28 posted on 12/08/2013 8:04:44 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Groooooaaaannn!


29 posted on 12/08/2013 8:05:07 PM PST by Husker24
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That’s what marketers might call “a really unfortunate” family photo.


30 posted on 12/08/2013 8:06:51 PM PST by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He was on Fox&Friends on Friday and claiming that many on the religious right were ‘begging’ him to run.


31 posted on 12/08/2013 8:07:10 PM PST by TomGuy (.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Aw hellz no.

Will not vote for Huckabee, even if he is the Republican nominee.

Same goes for Jeb, Crispy Creme, Rubio, Ryan, or any other Establishment squish.

32 posted on 12/08/2013 8:17:44 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (Blog: www.BackwoodsEngineer.com)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

what pastors??? you mean like Rick Warren and all the other lefties out there. Huckabee should either stay put or just plain go away.


33 posted on 12/08/2013 8:19:10 PM PST by Nifster
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To: AlmaKing

I agree with that. I enjoy his program on FNC on Saturday evening


34 posted on 12/08/2013 8:23:56 PM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I don’t understand these people who run for President who have zero chance of getting elected. Do they not have more productive things to do in life??


35 posted on 12/08/2013 8:36:40 PM PST by Cedar
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To: willywill
we live I a celebrity adoring society, where we pick presidents because of their charisma and looks

Yet Freepers continue to insist that this woman is the inevitable 45th President...



36 posted on 12/08/2013 8:50:38 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier
I like that picture of her, looks like she just had a swig of not properly distilled moonshine.
37 posted on 12/08/2013 8:54:49 PM PST by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert......Nuff said.)
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To: The Cajun
looks like she just had a swig of not properly distilled moonshine.

Or she drank the head or the tail. 'Course, Hillary can probably handle that just fine.

38 posted on 12/08/2013 9:05:21 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is he joking? Please Nooooooooo!


39 posted on 12/08/2013 9:09:44 PM PST by Chickensoup (we didn't love freedom enough... Solzhenitsyn.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Reaganite Republican

This shot could almost go in the Bad Christmas Family Photos album.


40 posted on 12/08/2013 9:13:16 PM PST by jocon307
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