Posted on 11/30/2010 7:30:39 PM PST by pissant
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee made a high-profile trek up to Iowa last Sunday to speak to a gathering of social conservatives. While being careful to stop short of an actual announcement, he sounded like a presidential candidate.
In fact, just days before the event, Huckabee made sure everyone knew that his appearance in Iowa was all about politics. The group sponsoring the event — Iowa Family Policy Center — promoted Huckabee’s appearance to Iowa churches saying he was coming “not as a politician, but as a pastor.”
Huckabee’s spokesman quickly put out a statement correcting this saying that Huckabee’s speech “will be political.” The statement pointed out Huckabee’s 2008 run for the presidency and his service as governor and lieutenant governor in Arkansas, all of which has taken place since Huckabee was a pastor more than 20 years ago.
At the event, he said he is open to the idea of running for president again and is giving it serious thought.
“I think I would be foolish not to, considering I have been through it and understand what it is about and also considering the fact that consistently I am in a very different position than I was four years ago,” Huckabee said, referring to his lead or strong showing in many early 2012 presidential polls.
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Good God....NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Huckleberry..go home.
I think we need to have an unofficial GOP primary prior to the real one. Otherwise we are going to end up with so many conservative candidates the Romney with the big money will win by default. We should have only one conservative in the running and we should have a smokey back room decide who that is going to be.
A milquetoast who wants to ‘work with the other side’. No thanks.
Huckster, just stay away!
Gomer Huckleberry? The pardoner of how many murderers?
Huckabee’s clemency revisited
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2635147/posts
He’s got that Southern twang down pat and he’s gonna be making a lot of visits to Iowa before that all important straw poll there next summer!
Huck-no. He’s RINO.
Someone tell him he’s not wanted!!!!! No cajones, RINO!
Unfortunately, everyone will think their guy is a conservative. Most are not.
Why does this socialist, pro-illegals, pro-Amnesty, peice of excrement want to run for President?
How can he fool people into thinking it is a conservative?
Oh yeah that’s right the liberal mainstream media is covring for this abomination.
Huckabee is a liberal tax-raising big-government-spender who pardoned a murderer that killed policemen.
This clown gets the nomination I’m dropping out of political involvement completely, and I’m sure other conservatives will too. To Hell with it all. Social conservatives who support Huckabee are dupes. The man is for social conservatism as Ron Paul is for a strong foreign policy.
A run for the toilet is OK, for President? NO!
True. yet he’s still probably the most conservative of the so-called front runners.
God, spare us !
So is anyone actually surprised? Huck, Romney, Newt will run. They have to be countered and defeated in the primaries. Conservatives would be wise to not splinter the real conservative votes among too many candidates or lest Romney gets in. I think Sarah may run now and be the glue and antidote that is needed. If she doesn’t run I fear Romney will be the nominee because I am not sure anyone else can pull in enough support to counter him. This is why steps must be taken now to expose Romney and Huck for who they are. Newt is not going anywhere anyway.
DeMint
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