Mike Huckabee set to announce presidential run Tuesday

Washington Post ^ | 05/05/2015 | By Karen Tumulty

[SeekAndFind]

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is slated to announce Tuesday that he will make a second bid for the Republican nomination.

The challenges are formidable for the man who won the 2008 Iowa caucuses. In that earlier race, Huckabee, 59, a former Baptist preacher, struggled to expand his reach beyond evangelical voters, and ran out of money in subsequent contests.

Huckabee is a gifted communicator. Polls have consistently shown that he has relatively high name recognition and popularity among Republicans. Early this year, he quit his television show on Fox News, so that he could more deeply explore the possibility of another run.

This time, his challenge will be finding a way to break through in a field that is likely to include a dozen or more credible, well-financed contenders. Among them are relatively fresh faces, such as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), who are challenging him for the financial and political support of conservative Christians.

On the stump, he has pointed to his Arkansas history as evidence that he has what it takes to run against Hillary Rodham Clinton, the expected Democratic nominee.

Indeed, Huckabee's career has been intertwined with that of the Clinton family for more than two decades.

[Red Badger]

Sinko de Mike-O!..............

[Uncle Miltie]

I pray the Lord spare us the huckster.

[Arm_Bears]

Ha, ha, ha!

And, may I add, Ho, ho, ho!

[Democrat_media]

Huckabee’s record as governor shows that he is a communist/marxist, proof :

http://conservative-headlines.com/2007/10/conservative-huckabee/

[JRandomFreeper]

I'm still sending money and time to the Cruz campaign.

Huck can pound sand.

/johnny

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

I’m not altogether sure I understand the rationale for his campaign. He seems to have had a pretty good gig in FNC. Why give it up? While he pulled a big surprise in IA in 2008, I think the bloom is off the rose. I can only attribute this to vanity more than anything else.

[SeekAndFind]

SOURCE:

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/05/mike-huckabee-big-government-117608.html

Huckabee supported in-state tuition rates and scholarships for students brought to the country illegally—a stance he continues to defend, even while taking a tough line against illegal immigration in general.

Huckabee’s major achievement was a health program known as ARKids First, which he pushed through in 1997, his first full year in office. It extended coverage to children whose parents earned too much to qualify for Medicaid, but still couldn’t afford private insurance. To pay for his various initiatives, Huckabee raised taxes—gas taxes, sales taxes, a tax on beds in nursing homes.... the state’s total tax bill increased on his watch, as did state spending and the number of state employees.

This has led to a longstanding feud with the anti-tax Club for Growth, which denigrates Huckabee’s record as governor. The libertarian-leaning Cato Institute has also given him poor marks, once describing him as “the biggest big-government conservative.”

Big taxer? Check.
Big spender? Check.
Benefits for illegal aliens? Check.

[Vendome]

Gag me with a pitchfork

[bigbob]

As a conservative Christian this should be welcome news here, right?

[BubbaBasher]

[I cannot think of a name]

Nothing more than ‘ego.’

By claiming to be running for President he’ll get interviewed by all kinds of news sources and have lots of TV face time. Plus it feels important to say, “I’m running for President”!

Other than that - completely meaningless.

[RckyRaCoCo]

I’m thinking Arby’s.

[Unmarked Package]

I pity the good evangelical Christians that will be deceived by has-been Huckabee, an attention-seeking politician with more ego than ethics.

Huckabee has been recruited by GOP establishment insiders with money and influence to lead evangelicals astray and dilute their influence. These handlers do not share your values.

What a waste it will be to throw away your vote on a beguiling mixture of Elmer Gantry and a one-liner comic when you could have voted for a brilliant, trustworthy conservative, faithful evangelical Christian, and fearless defender of our religious freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution.

I hope evangelicals will pray about this and realize they are being played for suckers.

[Fiji Hill]

No promised land there. Cruz or lose.

[Democrat_media]

Try looking at politican's RECORD instead of who they say they are or if they say they are a Christian to determine what they will do to the country. Huckabee’s record as governor shows that he is a communist/marxist, proof :

http://conservative-headlines.com/2007/10/conservative-huckabee/

Anyone can say anything .

[Jim Noble]

Read about the election of 1860. That’s where we’re going.

The electoral college is going to have to sort this out, if not the House.

[RIghtwardHo]

*crickets*

[Democrat_media]

Huckabee:

Big Marxist? Check.

Yes he is a marxist:

http://conservative-headlines.com/2007/10/conservative-huckabee/

[ETL]

From the website OnTheIssues.org...

Mike Huckabee:

(listed alphabetically—click link)
on Abortion
on Budget & Economy
on Civil Rights
on Corporations
on Crime
on Drugs
on Education
on Energy & Oil
on Environment
on Families & Children
on Foreign Policy
on Free Trade
on Government Reform
on Gun Control
on Health Care
on Homeland Security
on Immigration
on Jobs
on Principles & Values
on Social Security
on Tax Reform
on Technology
on War & Peace
on Welfare & Poverty

http://www.ontheissues.org/Mike_Huckabee.htm