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Mike Huckabee NOT running for President

Posted on 05/14/2011 6:05:31 PM PDT by jsdjason

Mike Huckabee just announced on his show that he is NOT running for President.


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KEYWORDS: huckabee; iknewit; mikehuckabee
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To: jsdjason

So I guess it is Romney’s turn this time.


161 posted on 05/14/2011 8:22:08 PM PDT by DangerZone
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To: Calif Conservative

I’m not rooting against Palin, she just has zero chance of winning. She brings no new voters to her camp more than she brought to McCain before.

Though it is still early in the process i don’t think any of the current people running have a snowballs chance of beating an incumbent.

I will probably get laughed at but if I had to pull a name out of the hat it would be John Kaisich. He has midwestern appeal, very low negatives, a conservative background and comes across well to people.


162 posted on 05/14/2011 8:22:45 PM PDT by landertiger
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To: JohnBovenmyer
And he’d be better able to fend off Obama’s inevitable shots and his lack of “government” experience had he been running with time in the Senate comparable to Obama’s


Obama had 143 days in the Senate and continued to vote present just like his time in the Illinois Senate. Even public school teachers have to work 180 days a year..Obama's experience was and is a joke, only in the mind of progressives and liberals is his record a plus and his "experience" valuable...

163 posted on 05/14/2011 8:24:41 PM PDT by Nat Turner (I can see NOVEMBER 2012 from my house....)
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To: JohnBovenmyer

All are valid concerns.

I’ve known 2 people in the last 5 years, one was close to my wife’s family and the other a rather well known client at the company I work for, who were told they were “cured” of their cancer and ended up dead less than a year later.

Now I also know several more who have survived longer against all odds.

Regardless, Cain has to pick a damn good VP, that would be a big part of easing people’s concerns.

The GA primary is also a concern, however, this was before the Tea Party movement had been started, it’s a far different political environment than it was in 2004.


164 posted on 05/14/2011 8:24:41 PM PDT by RockinRight (Cain in 2012)
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To: landertiger

Palin isn’t going to run so no worries there.


165 posted on 05/14/2011 8:27:16 PM PDT by DangerZone
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To: grey_whiskers

you can dub all you would like. I am more of a reader than a poster I admit. I just see the cult of Palin driving us off the cliff toward another 4 years of Obama. She has no chance of winning and the only thing her supporters can use as a positive for her is she can spout off some sound bites. The fact is she was a failed VP candidate on a failed ticket that lost to an unknown senator and a doddering lifer from Delaware. She quit her duty in Alaska,. What is she going to do when the heat gets turned on in DC. She couldn’t hack Jeuneau, why should we trust her in DC?


166 posted on 05/14/2011 8:29:04 PM PDT by landertiger
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To: owlpellets

Yeah, I’m not sure what that was about. I still like Fred though.


167 posted on 05/14/2011 8:31:44 PM PDT by RockinRight (Cain in 2012)
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To: nascarnation

Were you off-world in 2008?


168 posted on 05/14/2011 8:32:53 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: owlpellets

Not sure about that but I do hate those commercials!

“No cost to you!”

Makes me want to spit.


169 posted on 05/14/2011 8:33:39 PM PDT by RockinRight (Cain in 2012)
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To: landertiger

Don’t laugh. I wish Idaho Gov. Butch Otter would do it. I play in a big band. We were playing one time at a huge Mormon picnic. He stepped onto the bandstand and was told the band that he worked his way through college playing bass which was really cool. Then, he requested “In The Mood.” I’m not a huge Glenn Miller fan to begin with but over the last 40 years I have had to play “In The Mood” and “Little Brown Jug” about 10,000,000 times. Joking, I turned to the guy next to me and commented, “I was actually gonna vote for this f######.” Mi mike was hot. Oops. Jazz blooper.


170 posted on 05/14/2011 8:33:39 PM PDT by owlpellets
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To: dragonblustar; parksstp

What did Trump say?


171 posted on 05/14/2011 8:34:36 PM PDT by RockinRight (Cain in 2012)
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To: jsdjason

Oh Noz! But what if no other Socialist decides to run on the GOP side? We’re doomed!


172 posted on 05/14/2011 8:36:01 PM PDT by Redcloak (What's your zombie plan?)
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To: owlpellets

Spelling errors. Just put my glasses back on. I tend to make a fool of myself on a daily basis. Just ask my wife.


173 posted on 05/14/2011 8:40:35 PM PDT by owlpellets
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To: RockinRight
What did Trump say?

He wished him well but the way it sounded on the radio, it sounded like "you're fired now f- off to Florida"

174 posted on 05/14/2011 8:41:07 PM PDT by dragonblustar (If libs are inspired by a book that was dedicated to Satan, their reward will be hell.)
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To: Outlaw Woman
Not that I'm above it all or anything like that but, I'm a strong believer in God and the Bible. God directs and installs leaders of nations. Huckabee has been 'pushed' aside not because he thought of it but because the Lord put it on his heart to not run. The field will be cleared for only those whose hearts are sincere. Huckebee was not it.

I like your sentiment and I wish it were true, but what do you want to bet the "Myth" Romney will be running in the primaries?

If he does, that would disprove your statement. Because one thing Myth is not, is sincere.
175 posted on 05/14/2011 8:45:59 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: jsdjason

Glad to hear it. Snake oil salesman.

Someone on this thread asked someone else why they were so gleeful that the Huckster wasn’t running. No one asked *me* that but I’ll answer it anyway. I am glad (yes, really glad!) that he isn’t running because I think he would be a mendacious President (like a Republican Clinton) and his presence in the primaries would simply muddy the waters. Glad he’s out early.


176 posted on 05/14/2011 8:46:21 PM PDT by Hetty_Fauxvert ("And I'm actually happy to be, for us to be the moat with alligators party." -- Mark Steyn)
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To: Nat Turner

I agree completely that Obama’s “experience” was a total joke. That said it is way too easy to imagine the MSM in lockstep hitting on Cain’s precisely zero government experience (a big plus in many minds here) in comparison to all the “experience” Obama has had in 4 years of producing disasters. And there would be many mindless moderate heads that would listen and vote for four more years of the same on that basis. Had Cain made the Senate the same line of attack would doubtless still be tried, but many more would recognize it as doublespeak.


177 posted on 05/14/2011 8:51:01 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Obama been Liberal. Hope Change!)
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To: SoConPubbie

Romney will fall by the wayside as well.


178 posted on 05/14/2011 8:52:41 PM PDT by Outlaw Woman ("...; because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee,... "Hosea 4:6)
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To: SoConPubbie

I think Myth is done. His recent health care speech recommitting to Romney care as the right thing has made it more difficult than ever for him.


179 posted on 05/14/2011 8:52:44 PM PDT by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: Lakeshark
I think Myth is done. His recent health care speech recommitting to Romney care as the right thing has made it more difficult than ever for him.

Let's hope you are right.
180 posted on 05/14/2011 9:00:04 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
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