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.
F U M H!!!!
He’s GOT to be worried about a 3rd party.
(all I can figure)
Huckabee NEVER had the TEA Party vote and WE ARE WHY he didn’t run!
I would rather burn my ballot in the polling place than vote for Mittens Romney . The GOP has taken my vote for granted for 30 years but no more .
The very first ballot I ever cast was for Ronald Reagan from that day to this I have voted in every election that I was eligible to cast a vote in but I have never voted FOR anyone since President Reagan always against, time to send the whores in both parties a rude wake up call.
So Huckabee you are telling us that a big government statist like Romney is a conservative and good for the country?
This makes you part of the damn problem.
Take your individual mandate and shove it.
Right my note would consist of a used piece of toilet paper in a baggy .with a post script attached about how voting for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for evil.
Dumb political move on Huck’s part.
So tempted to dig up those old Huckster threads and name names...couldn’t stand Fat Boy then or now...
Makes sense, in a backwards, twisted sort of way, since everything these people do is one hundred eighty degrees out of phase, and the one thing that would do the most to fuel a "third party" conservative challenge would be for the the Republicans to nominate Romney.
Post of the month nominee!!!
Can any of you picture posting expert Freepers put a side by side picture of Hucksterbee and Gomer?
I seriously need a good laugh.
Too late HUCK...Tea Party is moving towards Newt.
Gingrich’s lead among potential Republican primary voters is driven largely by his support among those who consider themselves to be part of the Tea Party movement. Gingrich has the support of 35 percent of Tea Party voters, which equals the tally for Cain (20 percent) and Romney (15 percent) combined. No other candidate has double-digit support among the Tea Party.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/fox-news-tea-party-vaults-gingrich-first_609128.html
Allen Olson, chairman of the Columbia Tea Party, said Tuesday he will resign his post in order to endorse former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich in his bid for the White House.
“There is only one candidate for president who is leading on what I believe are the underlying issues this country faces,” Olson said in a statement. “Not only is this candidate talking about serious issues, he is providing real solutions.”
Olson said the deciding factor in his choice to support Gingrich was his advocacy for the Strong America Now deficit-cutting plan which seeks to eliminate federal waste.
Olson said he will work with Gingrich’s team in the months to come to build a grassroots movement here in South Carolina.
http://www.newt.org/news/sc-tea-party-leader-endorses-newt
Gingrich scores endorsement from Tea Party Nation founder
By Justin Sink - 09/26/11 11:30 AM ET
The founder of the Tea Party Nation — one of the largest coordinated groups in the conservative Tea Party movement — announced Monday that he would endorse former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.
Tea Party is moving towards Newt..Gingrich’s lead among potential Republican primary voters is driven largely by his support among those who consider themselves to be part of the Tea Party movement. Gingrich has the support of 35 percent of Tea Party voters, which equals the tally for Cain (20 percent) and Romney (15 percent) combined. No other candidate has double-digit support among the Tea Party.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/fox-news-tea-party-vaults-gingrich-first_609128.html
Allen Olson, chairman of the Columbia Tea Party, said Tuesday he will resign his post in order to endorse former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich in his bid for the White House.
“There is only one candidate for president who is leading on what I believe are the underlying issues this country faces,” Olson said in a statement. “Not only is this candidate talking about serious issues, he is providing real solutions.”
Olson said the deciding factor in his choice to support Gingrich was his advocacy for the Strong America Now deficit-cutting plan which seeks to eliminate federal waste.
Olson said he will work with Gingrich’s team in the months to come to build a grassroots movement here in South Carolina.
http://www.newt.org/news/sc-tea-party-leader-endorses-newt
Gingrich scores endorsement from Tea Party Nation founder
By Justin Sink - 09/26/11 11:30 AM ET
The founder of the Tea Party Nation — one of the largest coordinated groups in the conservative Tea Party movement — announced Monday that he would endorse former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.
Huckster stayed in the race 4 years ago to split the votes and give us McCRap and now this? He can shove a hog up his butt for all I care.
Huckabee is even more liberal than Romney. Anyone familiar with his tenure as governor is aware of that.
I just hope that Cain and Newt can hold on long enough for the tea party vote to solidify behind one or the other.
You’re surprised? Only desperate people desperately believing the Republican Party is any different than the Demrat Party would be “surpised”.
That the idiot is still shilling for Romney indicates Huckabee is a vapid RINO.
If the RINO-controlled GOP runs any RINO their candidate will lose. Real conservatives get it. Voting for a RINO only begats more RINOs. Took too long for too many of them to get it, but they finally do.
The GOP must come to conservstives—not the other way around. And if it doesn’t, it might just as well admit what it already is—an arm of the demrat party.
It ain’t gonna happen, Mikey.
Huck needs to stick to TV.
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