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Huckabee Opts Against 2012 White House Bid - FoxNews.com
Mike Huckabee said Saturday there would be no sequel to his surprisingly strong 2008 White House bid, in which he won the Iowa Republican caucus and finished second in the primaries to Sen. John McCain.
"All the factors say go, but my heart says no," Huckabee, who was considered the GOP frontrunner in several national polls, said on his Fox News Channel show.
Before his announcement Saturday night, Huckabee
Mike Huckabee will not run for president, and as a former candidate for public office I fully understand what he is doing. He feels he has a better chance to make a difference doing what he is dong.
I applaud his decision and the reasons .
good move, he was a joke of a candidate who only hurt his party by running
I must say, I'm happy about it. Gives my guy Cain a better chance.(I think) Although, curious who Huckabee supporters will migrate to.
I must say, I'm happy about it. Gives my guy Cain a better chance.(I think) Although, curious who Huckabee supporters will migrate to.
I must say, I'm happy about it. Gives my guy Cain a better chance.(I think) Although, curious who Huckabee supporters will migrate to.
Who Benefits If Huckabee Doesn’t Run?
...Here’s how this is going to work. I’m going to list six characteristics of Mike Huckabee, each one of which has some salience as to the sorts of voters that he’s liable to appeal to. We’ll then see which of the other Republican contenders share this characteristic in common with him. The more like Mr. Huckabee the other candidates are, the more they’ll benefit if he chooses not to run ...
1. Mike Huckabee is a social conservative. Although Mr. Huckabee does not always wear his social conservatism on his sleeve, his credentials are not really in question. How many other Republican candidates does this describe? I don’t think I’d get any debate on Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, or Herman Cain. Tim Pawlenty gets a point in this category — he’s more socially conservative than people realize. Newt Gingrich may be considered hypocritical because of his multiple marriages — but his positions are down-the-line social conservative, so he gets a point. Mitch Daniels, like Mr. Pawlenty, is more conservative on social issues that he’s usually given credit for — but he’s also called for a “truce” on them; we’ll give Mr. Daniels half a point....
2. Mike Huckabee is an evangelical Protestant. It’s important to distinguish this characteristic from the previous one. Rick Santorum may be extremely socially conservative — but he’s Roman Catholic, and not an evangelical Protestant — and to some religious voters, that makes a difference. The candidates who, as best as I can tell, would consider themselves to be evangelical Protestants are as follows: Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Mitch Daniels, Sarah Palin, Ron Paul and Tim Pawlenty. They score a point in this category.
3. Mike Huckabee is a Southerner. This is true of surprisingly few other candidates, given the dominant role the South often plays in shaping the G.O.P.’s electoral coalition. The exceptions are Mr. Cain, Mr. Gingrich, and Mr. Paul.
4. Mike Huckabee is an outsider. This characteristic may be a little harder to define than the others — but that doesn’t make it any less important. In a primary field, candidates often work to differentiate themselves as much by whether they operate from inside or outside the party establishment as by their policy positions. To score this category, we’ll give half a point to every candidate who is not a member of what I call the “Fairfax Five”, which are the candidates who are most lauded by Republican elites in and around Washington, D.C. ...
5. Mike Huckabee runs strongly in Iowa. He won the caucuses in 2008 and leads in almost all polls of it now. If Mr. Huckabee does not run, the candidate who runs a clear second place in the Iowa polls — Mr. Romney — would benefit, possibly opening up the door for him to sweep both Iowa and New Hampshire. Mr. Romney scores a full point. After that, the field in Iowa looks pretty muddy. But I think we can give half a point to the three Midwesterners in the race, who are Ms. Bachmann, Mr. Pawlenty, and Mr. Daniels,...
If we add up the points across all six categories, the clubhouse leader, with 4.5 points, is Herman Cain of Georgia, the radio talk show host and entrepreneur who is beginning to get more attention lately. He’s the most Huckabee-like of the other Republican candidates. Closely behind him, with 4 points each, are Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, and Michele Bachmann. Mr. Pawlenty, Mr. Santorum and (somewhat to my surprise) Mr. Paul also score reasonably well...
I can see Herman Cain beating the pans off of Obama because of his business acumen that Obams can never live up to.
We need to look at the reality of the facts.
Obama has been promoted as being brilliant when all of his decisions show the opposite .
Mr. Cain is a real American who has fought his way to be a great person with experience in Business and and as person involved in the Federal Reserve. He knows the system, Obama knows nothing about anything.
Μολὼν λαβέ;1059486672 said:I like the man and his views but don't think he will receive the nomination. I thing Gingrich or Jeb Bush would receive more support from conservative voters. Just my:twocents:
Μολὼν λαβέ;1059486672 said:I like the man and his views but don't think he will receive the nomination. I thing Gingrich or Jeb Bush would receive more support from conservative voters. Just my:twocents:
Μολὼν λαβέ;1059486672 said:I like the man and his views but don't think he will receive the nomination. I thing Gingrich or Jeb Bush would receive more support from conservative voters. Just my:twocents:
I'd feel a lot better about Cain if he has ANY government experience. Yes, he's been the CEO of a pizza chain I've never heard of, but he doesn't have the first idea of how government works. Obama was at least a legislator and a senator, Palin was a mayor and a governor. Cain literally has no experience.
The Clinton–Cain scuffle also drew the attention of Republican leaders, from Jack Kemp to Newt Gingrich, the two of whom enlisted Cain for the Economic Growth and Tax Reform Commission, a congressional study group, following that year’s midterms. For Cain, who had little prior interest in politics, it was a sudden, though welcome, development.
“When I confronted Clinton, I was just trying to help save Godfather’s Pizza,” Cain says. “I never had a desire or inclination to get into politics. People then started to encourage me to run for office, but that was not part of my game plan.”
But the bug had bit. Cain, who was already a leader at the National Restaurant Association at the time of the Clinton town hall, was retained in 1996 as the group’s full-time chief executive. He left Godfather’s to become a national corporate advocate and motivational speaker. He began to crisscross the country, giving hundreds of speeches to business and educational groups.
After the Hillarycare battles, Cain continued to find himself dabbling in national politics. During the 1996 presidential campaign, he was an adviser to Kemp, a former congressman and housing secretary and Bob Dole’s vice-presidential nominee. The pair had clicked the previous the year on Capitol Hill while serving together on the congressional study group.
The field still seems very amorphous but one thing that rings solid is the fact that Laura Bush called Mitch Daniels' wife to encourage and advise her. That means the big dogs like Daniels. He is well connected and seems like someone that group would support.
The problem is conservatives don't like his resume. If the Republican bigs push Daniels we could see a third candidate. Frankly I don't think they care whether its Daniels or Obama in the White House, just so it isn't an outsider.
The bankers want their own dogs running the government they bought and paid for.
I'd feel a lot better about Cain if he has ANY government experience. Yes, he's been the CEO of a pizza chain I've never heard of, but he doesn't have the first idea of how government works. Obama was at least a legislator and a senator, Palin was a mayor and a governor. Cain literally has no experience.
His lack of, "government experience", is what I like most about him. Yeah, Obama had been a senator for a year--big whoop--and look how he's cocked things up.
Regarding huck, though, I like his decision. He can do far more good lighting up the base now, than he could have as a candidate.
that's one of the better thing about the dems. when their candidate of choice LOSES in the Primary (witness Hillary's harpies) they tend to support the nominee rather than some whiner who wants to be a spoiler. The Connecticut situation with Lieberman was a bit different given it was internet insurgents who promoted that idiot who won the primary over lieberman. But the GOP has too many "purists"-especially the idiotic Bible Thumpers who gave us Obama by torpedoing the guy who could have beat him in 08-Romney-because his brand of Christianity didn't sell well with the evangelical nutcases
The field still seems very amorphous but one thing that rings solid is the fact that Laura Bush called Mitch Daniels' wife to encourage and advise her. That means the big dogs like Daniels. He is well connected and seems like someone that group would support.
The problem is conservatives don't like his resume. If the Republican bigs push Daniels we could see a third candidate. Frankly I don't think they care whether its Daniels or Obama in the White House, just so it isn't an outsider.
The bankers want their own dogs running the government they bought and paid for.
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