Posted on 11/22/2011 10:55:40 AM PST by iowamark
Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee gave his thoughts on the 2012 Republican presidential candidates Sunday in an interview with WABC’s Aaron Klein. As the candidates continue to trade rankings in the national polls, Huckabee, who won the Iowa caucuses in his own election bid in 2008, spoke of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s chances of winning the primary. The former Republican presidential candidate urged conservative Republicans to support Romney because he believes the former Massachusetts Gov. has the best chance of defeating Barack Obama in 2012.
“Mitt Romney may not be their first choice, but Mitt Romney every day of the week and twice on Sunday is going to be a much more effective president for issues that they care about than Barack Obama,” Huckabee told Klein. “I think sometimes there is this anxiety within the Republican Party of who is the perfect candidate. The answer is there isn’t one,” the former Arkansas governor added.
Romney came in second behind Huckabee in the 2008 Iowa caucuses, largely because of Huckabee’s popularity among social conservatives in the state. A Bloomberg poll of likely Iowa voters last week showed a four way tie between Romney, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul. Huckabee’s popularity in Iowa could work in Romney’s favor as the countdown to the Iowa caucuses begins.
The former Arkansas governor urged Tea Party Republicans to throw their support behind Romney. “I think Republicans and conservatives and the Tea Party need to get behind him and say, ‘You may not be our first choice, but between you and Obama, I’ll vote 40 times to get you elected,” Huckabee said.
I agree gib. I’ve never fallen for Huckabee’s holier than thou faux cover of religious devotion.
He’s a shrewd player in the game of power grabbing politics.
McLame, the Huskster, Romney, Gingrich and Co. are all a part of Team RINO! Need a demotivational poster with all of them in it.
Actually, it was the other way around... there was a bit of collusion happening between Huckabee and McCain, vs. Romney.
http://www.drudge.com/archive/103856/mccain-helps-huckabee-win-west-virginia
Really? After Romney destoyed Huckabees lead with misleading attack ads?
Romney must have promised Huckabee a cabinet position.
I agree with the poster who asked, “What’s the sell out?”
Huckabee is out of his mind.
I have just decided to not watch his program. If he’s going to push a pro-gay, pro-abortion, gun grabbing, fabian socialist for president, then his program is pure lying hypocrisy.
Huckabee favors ruining the republic. Shame on him.
My dog would be a better prez than zero, but I’m not voting for ‘em, and I ain’t gonna vote for mittens, either. Get lost huckster.
So.....has he ballooned back up to the big fat ass he was before he wanted to Elmer Gantry the country last election? Somebody post a current picture...
YUP, no doubt. In fact, the talk at the time was that the Huckster stayed in the race because he did not like Romney. Interesting that the Huckster thought McCain was the best candidate to defeat the Democrats in 2008 .... so wrong, yet we are supposed to blindly follow his recommendation in 2012 that Romney is the best Candidate to beat Obama in 2012...
Ain’t that the truth!....don’t forget that asswipe Chris Wallace....might as well throw in a few others, too...
Shut The Huck Up!
i wish i said that
iwist
teeman
“Huckabee was never TEA Party”
Exactly! He dislikes us as much as most other politicians. Most only pretend to like TEA Party when it benefits them.
Has Steve Deaces’ head exploded yet?
I’ve always believed that Hucklebee was, at heart, a born-again pRegressive.
That Romney, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul are tied in Iowa tells you how excited the base is to see Romney win.
A fiscal liberal supporting a fiscal and social liberal.
No way, Jose!! No RINOS!! NO ROMNEY!! NO WAY!!
RINOS BEGONE!!
“Huckabee’s sellout doesn’t make sense.”
See post #12.
Good point.
Sell out? He’s always been a big nanny state RINO. What’s surprising is he and his campaign were behind most of the anti Mormon stuff in 2008.
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