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Mike Huckabee for Senate

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  February 26th, 2009 at 02:43 PM  | 

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Those are people waiting in a line that runs the length of the convention floor, turns, and wraps around of people waiting and waiting and waiting to meet Mike Huckabee and get his autograph on his book.

That’d be one hell of an army of activists ready and willing to help in run for Senator from Arkansas next year.

Maybe he’ll do it. He should.

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  • Amy Miller

    Ooooh….wouldn’t that make the Democrats MAD?????

    Muahahahahaha :-D

  • Swamp_Yankee

    Blanche doesnt want card check to come up. Ark is a big right to work state. 5% union and big anti-union companies like Tyson and WWalmart. We should hold her feat to the fire.

    Just having a heavy weight in the game may scare Linocln straight. If there is no credible threat in these races, Dem Senators wil act bolder.

    Republicna recruiting should be bazing. 2010 Senators like Linocln should be looking over their shoulders and voting as if they will be punished if they fall out of line with their constituents.

    Even if he doesnt want to run,. Huckabee should just fake it it for year. That alone will keep Lincoln centrist.

  • mbecker908
  • Achance

    and tells them all about how much attention their companies are going to get from the USDOL, DOJ, ICE, and a whole alphabet soup of federal power and all they have to do to avoid that unpleasantness and possible perp walks is sheath their swords about Card Check. Said CEOs say, “what about our competitors?” Rahmbo says, “They’re being made the same offer.” CEOs say, “Where do I sign.” That is the way the game is played.

  • Swamp_Yankee

    In the end, it is still one person one vote and polling indicates people of Arkansas do not like Card Check. They cant control what is spoken at the dinner table, the country club and lunch room. One person

    What’s most important is being able to providing voters with an alternative; a sound message and a popular candidate.

  • http://www.thepoliticalclass.com The Political Class

    …from mucking up the 2012 GOP presidential race. He’s acceptable as a governor or senator, but president? No way, ever.

  • $peciallist

    …he even calls it the ‘Porkulus’…

    he’s all over the TV and radio….he’s fearless in that regard..

    unlike some pols….

  • victor_cocchia

    but anyone who saw his speech here today, I sat up front, can clearly see he plans to run in 2012. I don’t think he has interest in the senate seat. Again this is based on his speech today which was very campaign like.

  • TxCon

    but not anything higher. If he runs that would force the Dems to use a lot of resources in a seat that I’m sure they thought was safe. Plus, I think he could win it.

    RUN MIKE RUN!!

  • Swamp_Yankee

    n/t

  • http://hillbillypolitics.com Steph C

    Sorry to put it like that but Washington D.C. is not kind to conservatives and he would become just another of the babbling class there. Where he is right now, he can deliver a conservative message and be heard above the babblers.

  • http://www.thepoliticalclass.com The Political Class
  • red_oakster

    I don’t think you can win a presidential nomination with just one leg of the conservative stool. Huck is good on social issues, but poor on economics and taxes, as well as foreign policy. Let’s assume he wins Iowa again; there’s no way Huckabee wins Florida, let alone California, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, etc. It’s hard to see a viable path to the nomination. Romney or Palin? Yes. Sanford or Pawlenty? Yes again. But Huckabee is anathema to both economic and national security conservatives. So while he can win Iowa and maybe (maybe) the South and Texas, it does not add up to a presidential nomination.

    As for the Senate, I think I remember Griffin is talking about a run, and he seems pretty solid. So why settle for Huckabee?

  • olsmithie

    Super nice guy, but I’ve about had my fill of “moderates.”
    I want some real conservatives to pick from, and believe I know at least 2 or 3 are out there. Maybe more.

    Regards

  • itrytobenice

    He should run for the Senate seat, or at least make a whole lot of noise like he’s really considering it.

    In the meantime, stay in the media. He has a natural way of talking that reflects well on conservatives and manages to get some media attention. Milk it.

  • victor_cocchia

    That no one here thinks I was either pushing or hoping for a hckabee run. His rhetoric today, while uplifting at times, is grounded in populism. That’s apparent by the amount of time he took to tell us he was not a populist. The sorry referee to the people who want him to run for the senate (where I think he would do well), because I don’t think he’ll run. He sounds like a presidential candidate, which will prove to be to the detriment if true conservative candidates in 2012.

  • adamsweb

    Huckabee has someone in mind for the Senate seat in Arkansas and it ain’t him.
    I know that it’s going to be hard to win without all the Red State people gung ho because people were key to President Thompson’s victory, however Huckabee is building an organization and I think the only office he’ll run for is President.

  • virgo

    Arkansas voters seem to give a leg up to a known quantity. Governor Huckabee was popular and had he run for office in Arkansas rather than chasing the presidency he would likely have won. He has built up some ill will because he did not help the state Republican party and that has not been forgotten. He can try again and given his likable personality would certainly be given a chance to prove his sincerity in wanting to be an Arkansas US senator. I did vote for him to be governor and would likely vote for him as senator. I did not vote for him to be president nor would I if he ran again.

  • smitch61

    I like Mike, but he cannot beat Obama… period… Need to concentrate on someone who can beat Obama. Senator would be good, maybe he will rethink it.

  • http://www.publiusforum.com Warner Todd Huston

    I would NOT be in that line because I do not much like Huckabee. However, I would not mind him running for Senate. I think he would generally be a good Senator. Horrible president, but acceptable Senator.

  • mbecker908

    He’s still the AR version of Huey P. Long.

  • $peciallist

    the Bunny……….next time :)

  • texas214

    Blanche Lincoln is a fairly conservative (by modern standards) Dem. If she felt she would be challenged by Huckabee, she would become an even more “blue dog”. As Obama moves further left I gotta believe more Dems from red states are going to be look at their own careers and start to wonder what their future in the Democrat party is going to be.

    We saw this in the 80′s with the likes of Phil Gramm; I bet there are others!

  • $peciallist

    lol

  • sconklin

    I recall watching a Huckabee show a month or two ago and the question came up if he had any interest in a Senate position. He flat said he had no interest in the legistlative branch of Government

  • mbecker908

    He’d be in a nasty mood for days. He expects me to do the “minor clean up work” like Huckabee and our resident Rockefeller Republican…

  • mbecker908

    If the choice boils down to Gov. Palin or Huckabee, he doesn’t stand a chance with the SoCons. She’ll clean his clock in a permanent way.

    Frankly, I think that Obama will probably do so much damage in the next couple of years that nobody currently on the Presidential radar will end up as a candidate. I think we’re probably going to be in the market for a really nasty, cut-throat politician who will actually work to dismember the Dems, and that somebody will be able to sell conservative, small government economics to the masses. I don’t see anybody we know now being that person.

  • bmk2307

    How does Huckabee only have one leg? He has been against the bailouts from the beginning, including the one that Bush did, when no one else was speaking out about it (Romney was for it). Also, Huckabee is for getting rid of our tax code and implementing the Fairtax. I don’t know how much more conservative you can get. I don’t know why you think he doesn’t have any foreign policy experience. As a Gov. he traveled around the world meeting with foreign leaders, and has also traveled to Israel more than 6 times, and also took a trip to Africa. Get the facts right, and don’t just regurgitate campaign talking points.

  • pilgrim

    In 1992 he ran against Dale Bumpers, and he lost by 20 points, 60-40.

  • mbecker908

    A senate win would keep him busy in ’12. A loss will take him out permanently.

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  • mbecker908

    he’s a liar. He can say anything, but his ten years as Governor of AR are all the proof anyone should need that he’s never met a government program he didn’t like. As far as getting rid of the tax code, that’s just a crock of crap. He signed on to the FairTax because they had a national organization. The fact that it’s absolutely not something that will ever be implemented is not beside the point.

    Huckabee is no conservative. He’s a liar and would have been a thief if somebody hadn’t noticed he was backing a moving van up to the Governor’s Mansion.

    He should have stayed in Africa.

  • dld1717

    He says he wants to help the party. Taking down Lincoln helps the party and country

  • bmk2307

    You win. The irrefutable facts that you have shown have converted me. (sarcasm)