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.
Huckabee was never TEA Party.
Now he’s a Romney-Bot!
Sorry, Mike. No can do.
It was weird that Huckabee, who at the time was polling #1 declared very early that he wouldn’t run. He is a pretty opportunist fellow and it seemed very unlike him at the time. I often questioned weather he had already made a deal with Romney. Some people say that the good pastor Huck would never run with Mormon Mitt but they are vastly underestimating his political nature. Others have said that Mitt would never run with Huckabee who spoiled his chance to beat McCain last time. They underestimate Mitt’s political nature. There would be no better antidote for his Mormon problem than Huckabee on the ticket. That said and as much as they both make me queasy a Huckabee/Romney ticket would destroy Obama. Moderate Mitt, all business all the time, and Evangelical Mike turning out the old base. Business sense and old school populism merged in clean scandal free package. The tea party would cry foul for a while but 90% would fall in line by November because the alternative is unacceptable.
Correct.
Which means Romney would already have been nominated, and would have lost and would now be out of our hair and Dole II (McCain) would have aged out.
In 2008, I wondered what Huckabee was doing staying in the race as long as he did. I heard theories he was just getting name recognition and then of course he got the radio and tv show. Now I believe that he was trying to help Romney by taking votes away from McCain.
How can a nominee that believes in the personal mandate be any better than Obama?
The RINO elite in DC must be scared sh#tless right now—the conservatives are not yet on the reservation where they should be.
I’m not surprised, can’t stand Huckabee.
I think conservatives should vote their conscience, if they have one.
Oh yea, FUMH!
Their slogan? "We Report, and We Don't Give a Bleep What You Think!"
Rove, Perino, Huck...blecch!
Well it has finally come to this..
With republicans like Newt, Romney, Perry etc. The party is finished. It’s hopelessly over. This election cycle is probably going to spell the end of the republic too.
Its about time for us to get a real third party going. One with real conservatives with real core conservative principles running it.
Huckabee is another in a long line of so called conservatives who has sold out to the establishment and probably will do anything for it.
You may be right. Although I do NOT THINK it was necessarily “baked in the cake” that Hussein was going to win in 2008.
If McInsane had FOUGHT back, or if Romney as the nominee had FOUGHT, then we may not have had the stimulus, Hussein’s DeathCare, and encroaching banking regulation.
The Huckster is likely promoting the candidate that has promised him the VP slot.
If wall street and lobbyists like Romney what could go wrong. /s
Yet more proof that Romney isn’t a Conservative.
[ Well it has finally come to this..
With republicans like Newt, Romney, Perry etc. The party is finished. It’s hopelessly over. This election cycle is probably going to spell the end of the republic too.
Its about time for us to get a real third party going. One with real conservatives with real core conservative principles running it.
Huckabee is another in a long line of so called conservatives who has sold out to the establishment and probably will do anything for it. ]
Dissolution of the WHIG (republican party) followed by a Civil War (Civil War II).
Hopefully the New Republican party will do a better job than the WHIGS (RINOS).
What the Huck?
In other words, Huck.. we should simply sell out our values and principles and settle on Romney over all the others?
Oh, hell no.
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