Posted on 03/06/2008 3:07:47 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
Just days after officially dropping out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination, Mike Huckabee is already making plans for a possible run for the White House in 2012.
“We want to stay in touch and start now building a platform to continue addressing issues that brought us together in the first place,” Huckabee said in an e-mail to supporters on Wednesday.
“We will keep our Web site up and as we transition, will want to create a way to keep in touch and continue the battle for our families, our freedom, and our future.”
Huckabee intends to use as a model Ronald Reagan’s efforts following his failed run in 1976 and leading up to his success in 1980, the Washington Post reports.
He plans to help GOP nominee John McCain and Republican congressional candidates gain support among conservative Christians for the November elections, “while looking for a national radio show or other forum that he can use to expand his influence within the party,” according to the Post.
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an attention whore that just will NOT go away.
It’s not funny at all. Romney killed off Thompson and lifted up McCain in S. Carolina. Without Romney Huckabee takes S.Carolina and the party turns to Thompson to stop him. Instead we’ve got McCain.
The biggest eye opener of this entire primary process was the realization that there are just as many class-envy, wealth-jealous people on the conservative/Republican side as there are on the liberal/Democrat side.
Just look at the plethora of comments on this forum and others which spearheaded their attacks on Romney by complaining he had a lot of his own money to spend.
Huckabee just seems to be one of those living high off the hog of his supporters’ money. Traveling around aimlessly for the past 6 weeks all over the country and having a good time at donors’ expense. He’s probably going to be campaigining for the next 4 years, rather than doing something productive to prove his worth. Fact is, this guy can’t survive in the private sector and so he makes his living this way.
He always gave me those slick-willy /Used Car salesman vibes.
Give it up Huck.....
He has one of those very large black barbeque smokers at the end of his driveway on the side of his Mansion...right next to an old junkie car.
I imagine his wealthy neighbors are loving the sight of that. NOT!
sw
Yes, we know you'll get 3 or 4 times as much funds which would you make you more competive later on. Yes, we know you've got thousands of young volunteers who will work their tails off for you in 4 years to get you the nomination, but look, don't run again.
Some guy on Free Republic doesn't like you.
Most of it was his own money. So who cares?
Huckabee did all this by being an attractive candidate. You are making a mistake if you underestimate him.
Huckabee received FREE liberal media coverage. He was used to isolate the evangelicals from the real conservatives and split the party. If Huckabee hadn't ran for President, he would likely have been chosen for VP. Now his political career is toast.
Huckabee didn't start getting big media coverage until he took the lead in Iowa. That's why it's called earned media.
Horse manure. The guy had no money, no organization, absolutely nothing, just woke up one day and said "I think I'll run for President" and the media went ape-s--t over him.
If you can't figure out simple logic that Huckster was nothing more than a trojan horse to split the GOP and subsequently giving us McCain, then you shouldn't be posting here.
“((((((Huckabee did all this.....))))) by being an attractive candidate.”
Did all of what???? Huckabeee is a loser, a shill, a liar and twofaced bigot. That freak will never get my vote...NEVER.
I am pleased that he stayed in so long though, as in doing so, he allowed much more of America see the fool that he really is.
When he first started in the race, I was actually thinking that he was a good man and I actually thought that such a person could be good for America. I doubt that I have ever been so wrong about a person in my entire life. He’s nothing but a circus clown without the makeup.
Someday, folks will see the damage this disgusting little mouse has done to Christians as a whole.
“Yeah, looking at him, you might think Christians are bitter and angry people who can’t see the forest through the trees.”
By golly, you might just be onto something.
“Huckabee intends to use as a model Ronald Reagan’s efforts following his failed run in 1976 and leading up to his success in 1980, the Washington Post reports.”There are other differences.The difference is, Ronald Reagan was a conservative.
RR was a leader.
RR was a great American.
RR was a man of huge intellectual stature who understood the significance of policy, and underlying points of policy.
RR captured the imagination of the American people because he understood America.
Huckabee is none of that.
I’m not arguin’.
;-)
Maybe he didn't mean to do it or didn't set out to do it, but it was an unintended consequence of him being in the race. He isolated the evangelicals from better Republicans such as Fred Thompson, Hunter, or even Romney (whom I'm not a fan of). As a result we got McCain.
If he did, he should have dropped out in September. He got next to no media attention until late November.
I'm telling you the guy ran on a lark. He had no money or organization to speak of. He was virtually unknown until he won the Iowa Straw Poll, and then the idea lightbulbs went off in the MSM/Dems' heads. Since Rudy was tanking, what better way to split the conservative vote than to exploit a caricature of religious conservatives? Huckabee got used, Christian conservatives got double-crossed, and the GOP has the most liberal Republican presidential candidate for its nominee since Wendell Wilkie.
Yeah, he wrote a whole book on fixing the country as a lark. He took 14 months of his life to run a campaign just for the heck of it. He wanted to be President and he’s done better than any second place finisher from 1976-the President.
charlie crist?
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