Posted on 05/05/2015 10:03:07 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee will be entering a very different Republican primary field when he announces his candidacy Tuesday, one that will likely bring up the debate over where libertarians stand in the Republican party, while also facing more competition for social conservative voters than eight years ago.
Huckabee does have name recognition having been on Fox News all this time, Tim Hagle, a political science professor at the University of Iowa, told TheBlaze. At the same time, after he won the caucuses here in 2008, there was a lot of concern that he wasnt as conservative as some thought.(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
Ansel,
You judge a man by the fruit of the tree of his life.
The fruit of the tree of Huckabee’s life doesn’t always match his profession of Christianity.
I read it and remember it, it was along shot, but you have to make some strange calls when push comes to shove.
See post 47 and put your money where your mouth is.
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Wow, I'm stunned. Please see:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1962819/posts
Technically, Jim Robinson (who owns freerepublic.com) endorsed Huckabee and not the website itself.
Was Jim on or off his meds that day?
I voted for the Sarah Palin ballot choice in 2008 and hoped for a massive December heart attack for Juan McCain.
Read the last part of my post.
Okay ... left with the "no-win scenario" of McQueeg, Romney and Huckabee ... you went with Huck as the lesser of 3 evils in '08.
If you would be so kind as to weigh in on this thread of your thoughts on the Huckabee campaign in 2016 ... I for one believe it would be very beneficial to the thread.
I’m not even close to ready to start attacking Huckabee as a man who is not really a Christian, but someone who is faking it.
I see that you already beat me to it. Thanks Boss.
wrong. I went with Thompson. Read the thread.
JR is freerepublic, his endorsement is THE freerepublic endorsement, whether we 100s of thousands of individuals who have signed up here, agree with it or not.
OK, I feel better now. You were actually endorsing "None of the Above". Sorry to have doubted you.
Kind of funny, but kind of sad that the pro-Huckaphony crowd will still trumpet your "endorsement" nearly a decade later.
Weighing in, I would love Huckabee and his band to perform at our Inaugural Ball for President Cruz.
I did not endorse Huckasbee. Read the thread.
Thatsa good one Boss!
I guess that you are in the process of asking the Mod to delete all of your false posts now?
Post 69 was just in general, but while I remember the strategy about Thompson, that 2008 thread sure looked like an endorsement.
I took it as an endorsement with hopes of something breaking loose to our benefit, although Thompson had dropped out, but also as you picking the lessor of three evils if nothing did break loose for Thompson.
Yeah, it was an endorsement—for Fred Thompson.
I’ve never been pro-Huckabee, and am not now, but that non-endorsement was widely seen as an endorsement.
So even though Thompson had already left the race, none of that thread was intended as a bleed over into the ‘lessor of 3 evils choice’?
I now remember Jim's post and vaguely remember endorsing the strategy of forcing the 2008 GOP nomination to a second ballot. Like Jim, I was a FRedhead back then.
You were wrong. get over it.
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