Posted on 03/15/2011 7:36:27 AM PDT by pissant
Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee took a different approach to a potential run for president, praising Mississippi governor Haley Barbour Monday.
“I would consider him a colleague who wants the same job,” said Mr. Huckabee said Monday. “I think Haley could be a very strong candidate, and I believe he has possibly the most brilliant political mind in America … I owe a lot of my political life to Haley.”
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Of all the current choices I like Haley best. Very articulate and serious candidate.
I like him too. He’s my favorite so far.
Haley Barbour rocks!!
Is either “electable” (not according to Rush, according to you.)
i’m not voting for either rino.
Sheesh, get with the program...
A Haley Barbour, Herman Caine ticket WWould be great! I can dream can’t I?
Huckabee praises Obama as a ‘role model’ for family values:
Huckabee Defends Michelle Obama against Sarah Palin:
With freinds like Yuckabee, who needs enemies?
I like proven success political and business. We need it.
Exactly, These guys have stellar track records. They have indeed walked the walk.
I sure wouldn´t want Huckabee praising me.
(Days before Haley Barbour was hired to lobby on behalf of the Mexican government in 2001, he signed a letter urging then-President Bush “to continue moving forward with [his] pro-immigration reform proposals.”
The August 9, 2001 letter from Barbour and five other former Republican National Committee chairmen says Bush’s immigration proposals are “both good public policy and wise political strategy,” according to a CongressDaily report at the time.
That day, the Bush Administration and Mexican government signed off on an agreement on an expanded temporary worker program that would, among other features, offer a path to U.S. citizenship for some three million Mexicans living illegally in the U.S.
Six days later, Barbour’s firm was hired to lobby for Mexico.
Barbour responded to Michael Scherer’s report on the lobbying by stressing that he doesn’t support “amnesty.”)
Since 1900, only one Republican became president by defeating an incumbent. That was Ronald Reagan. He had these four traits that might have helped him:
1. He was conservative.
2. He was a governor.
3. He sought the nomination, in a previous election.
4. He was from the West.
These Republicans, who might run, have at least three of those four traits: Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, and Dirk Kempthorne. I hope that all four of them will run, and I hope that Haley Barbour, Gary Johnson, and Buddy Roemer will also run. I hope that at least four of those seven will continue campaigning until the convention. If that happens, no one will get a majority of delegates, before the convention, causing the convention to be more suspenseful and exciting, causing more people to watch and hear the republican ideas. That happened in 1980, and Reagan won about 40 states.
Mr. Walking Negative-Repulican Cliche?
He is bright and articulate and probably a very good governor, I’ll grant you that. But the US isn’t voting out its first black president for him by any chance.
You’ve got that right on amnesty, pissant!
Haley has something else going for him. He’s from the south and would sweep the southern states as well as the west. Not sure about Cal. though.
Two of the last three republican presidents were from the South, and three of the last four presidents were from the South. Barbour, Huckabee, and Roemer are all from the South.
He was proceeded by Jimmy Carter, currently the worst President in our history.
History may not only be repeating itself, it may be besting the record...
Haley and Huckabee - two amnesty queens.
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