[svcw]

Why is MH still in the race?

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

I like Huckabee and would support him in any race. I’m glad he is staying in the Presidential race and making McCain earn the nomination if he is able. I will always respect Huckabee for being willing to take the abuse and offer voters in states like Texas and Ohio a choice in the republican race clear up until one candidate actually earns the nomination with 1,191 delegates. If McCain does that and Huckabee chooses to run for another office, great. Go Huckabee. My respect for him has grown tremendously over the past few months. I didn’t know he was made of such tough stuff.

[gondramB]

Related story
http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/02/23/mike-huckabee-for-senate/

>>Mike Huckabee for Senate
By Dave
Feb 23rd 2008 10:03PM

Filed Under:eMike Huckabee, 2008 President, 2008 Senate

It’s not a bad idea:

An increasingly favorable attitude toward Mike Huckabee inside the conservative movement, nurtured by his presidential campaign against Sen. John McCain, is threatened by the former Arkansas governor’s refusal to run against Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor this year.

Polls show Huckabee is the only Republican with a chance to unseat first-termer Pryor.<<

[gondramB]

A much stronger denial directly from Governor Huckabee

>>Breakfast With Huckabee

By John M. Broder Mike Huckabee - The Caucus - Politics - New York Times Blog

Mike Huckabee, the lone remaining challenger to Senator John McCain for the Republican presidential nomination, visited with about 30 reporters this morning for the Washington ritual Christian Science Monitor breakfast (motto: Better Journalism through Bacon). He didn’t make much news and he didn’t eat any eggs, but as always he had a number of quotable things to say.

On running for the United States Senate if this presidential thing doesn’t work out: “It’s more likely I’ll dye my hair green, get a bunch of tattoos and go on tour with Amy Winehouse.” <<

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/breakfast-with-huckabee/

[gondramB]

For anyone having trouble with Google video here is the same video on Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW1c8taQJoc

[montag813]

If he can enter, he needs to face Pryor. If he beats him and status quo elsewhere, and Lieberman switches sides, we rule the Senate once again.

[DM1]

well at the very least he would make the AR senate seat competitive hopefully he would pick it off and wipe some of that smart @$$ grin off Schumer’s face

[gondramB]

This video is Governor Huckabee the night before the Ed Rollins interview. Its a skit from Saturday Night Live about Huckabee joking about the mathmatical impossibility of Huckabee winning.

I don’t think he would have done this if he wasn’t planning an exit strategy.

But it was funny.
Best Quote: “I’m not a math guy. I’m more of a miracle guy.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmn9vbITjIg&watch_response

[Nextrush]

Huckabee is the alternative at this point for votes against McCain and for getting more conservative delegates into the convention hall.

Texas is winner takes all so Huckabee must win there to win delegates.

I don’t like everything about Huckabee but I think he’s more conservative than McCain, so I would vote for him and will in PA on April 22nd.

Our delegate system is so fouled up (all run uncommitted but are mostly political insiders) in PA I will have to vote for the outsiders where I can find them even if they happen to support Ron Paul in my congressional district.

I know Paul’s delegates will at least be for less government and not more like McCain will give us.

[unspun]

I’m glad that Ed Rollins sees something of the very important part that Mike Huckabee plays in the American political system — but aside from that, I don’t quite see the point of this thread.

[Theodore R.]

Huckabee running for the Senate is a fair idea, but he will hard-pressed against the entrenched Pryors, who have not lost an election since the summer of 1972.