by the presence of someone named “Barack Hussein Obama” in the White House. Before that, you had all of these Northern European names, and then we were asked to vote for someone named “Huckabee”? Get real. But the glass ceiling for people with weird names has been shattered.

Mitt and Newt also benefit, as does Sarah in a different way.

Just saying.

in the primary, and it’s doubtful whether or not I would in the general. That said, I think that the presidential candidate for 2012 should be (and likely will be) someone who is involved in the 2010 elections, both rhetorically and financially.

(Personally, I’d love for him to run for Senate against the Dem in Arkansas, or campaign for the Republican running against her. Oh, well.)

Mitt Romney & Mike Huckabee are yesterday’s news. Neither stand a chance if Sarah Palin or Tim Pawlenty jump into the race. Palin & Pawlenty are the best retail politickers I’ve ever seen, which will play extremely well in New Hampshire & Iowa.

Romney has to defend signing Romneycare into law, which has been a total disaster.

Huckabee has to explain why he’s changed from being a pro-life socialist to being a pro-life capitalist. The obvious implication being that he’s simply another opportunist who’ll say whatever he needs to say to get elected.

consider Huckabee “southern biased”. In the link you provided, I would consider only 6 (VA; FL; AL; S.C.; GA; TX) as southern states. Maybe I’m missing something here. Is he donating more to So. states, than in the others?
BTW I’m basically Huckabee neutral.

money to Conservatives but I don’t see him a very viable Presidential candidate. That whole populist thing is NOT going to be working for people in 2010 or 2012. The pushback against government spending and taxes is going to be huge and he is not a small government guy.

Whoever has his enemy at his mercy &
does not destroy him is his own enemy

I listen to Huckabee’s TV show occasionally. He seems to talk incessantly about how “we all have to be civil to each other”…..and very little else. That’s a worthy idea, but probably not what the voters will want from a President after four years of Obama. Between BO”s apologiy tours, and believing that all problems can be solved by just sitting down with our enemies and making nice, I think the voters will be ready for some Reagan-style toughness.

And in a broader sense, the incompetence of this President—who isn’t qualified to run a hardware store much less the greatest country in the world—probably means we don’t want any more amateur hours for a while. I know that having any kind of business/private sector experience is a mortal sin in Obama–land, but it would be great if our 2012 nominee had some significant leadership credentials and background outside of government.

What prompted this front-pager ?

I remember him advocating abolishing the IRS and replacing it with an across the board 18% Value Added Tax, and calling it a Fair Tax.

I do not understand how this can be considered Left Wing.

would appeal more to me than Huckabee.

They may not have had “executive experience” per se, but their years in Congress show competence and a conservative philosophy.

Unfortunately, they have not stepped up to the plate: perhaps they do not want the stress of such a campaign on their families, or are just not interested.

Just from the standpoint of “look” for the video era, Boehner beats Huckabee: Macy’s vs. Wal-Mart!

I am pretty far from being a southern baptist, and I have my issues with his creationist tendencies, but he speaks better off the cuff than Obama with a prompter. I also have to say that his answer to the creationist question at the debate had a very Reaganesque, comforting feelign to it, and if you look at the first of the 3 posts that come up on RS with the Huckabee tag, it appears, that he was quite a hit at CPAC.

I think Romney is done. He’s defending Romneycare in MA which is a Obamacare 2. Huckabee was a tax increaser and called for college tuition for illegals. Think they are both done for. But I’ve read that Thune has had a conservative record and is very popular in SD.

This was proven, in my mind and it can never be unproven.

He take on the Rifqa Bary situation was absolutely disgusting. His mealy mouth pandering so as not to offend a particular religion when a young girl was being threatened with an honor killing was horrific, cowardly and repulsive.

These are dark and dangerous times and we need men with titanium stones who are not afraid to call evil by name and stand up for the weak, the oppressed and the helpless.

I can forgive many things in a politician, but not this one. Huckabee is unfit.

Game on!

= very difficult for me to get excited about anything. Pawlenty and/or Palin, now we’re talking. Or how about someone who isn’t a tax&spend liberal with the ability to suddenly find conservative roots whenever the electorate realizes they don’t like tax&spend liberals.

Huckabee showed himself to be a phony, a liar, and a bigot throughout the primary. His pandering to those on conservative ideas he thought would be winners is reason enough to disqualify him. If the right wishes to stay on the sidelines in yet one more election cycle, by all means, he’s your man. Otherwise, that piece of excrement should just go away.

Huckabee is such a phony!!! He out and out lies under the guise of preacherhood. I will never forget his pandering to the people who do not like mormons. I will always hold him responsible for the nomination of John McCain. He cares about no one but himself. He is the Charlie Crist of the State of Arkansas - He is the least presidential - I would be less proud to have someone like that as my President then Jimmy Carter.

If Redstate continues to entertain this idea - goodbye!

He’s too busy auditioning for a spot as Bass player for the “Soggy Bottom Boys” to run for President. I’m voting for Jeb Bush.

where the heck the preceding posters have been. I have never seen thee before.

Is this a closed site, or clique? Are newcomers not welcomed at Redstate? If that’s the case, please let me know and I’ll be happy to move on to a friendlier conservative site.

Thanks

Where I am politically? Well, lets see…The first vote I ever cast was for Ronald Reagan in 1980, I voted to re-elect him, I voted for George H.W. Bush twice, for Robert Dole and for George W. Bush twice. I held my nose and voted for John McCain this last election. I was a member of Young Americans for Freedom while in school and am now a member of The North Houston Tea Party Patriots. I have only voted for one Dem in my life and that vote went to Phil Gramm in 1980. As for Mike Huckabee…He’s a bigger flip flopper than John Kerry and his cheesy show has completely erased what little credibility he might have had. To your charge of my hurling insults at people (Huckabee) because I don’t like his personality….it seems this is a staple here at Redstate, especially toward those who might dissent from the opinion of the people who run this place. Sounds kinda like a mirror image of the KosKids. Oh, and if you need links to verify that Huckabee raised taxes dramatically while Governor of Arkansas and tried to use Romney’s religion as a wedge issue, which makes him a religious bigot, then maybe it’s you lacking the brain.

Like a lot of things about Newt. He’s the one potential candidate who jumps out at me as being of Presidential caliber and ready for the job. Haven’t really scrutinized him yet though. Romney’s the only likely candidate I really don’t like.

Huckabee was actually my VP preference - prior to the revelation of Sarah Palin (who I didn’t know much about until she was McCain’s pick) He seems a genuinely nice guy and a man of faith and conviction - but I don’t see him as ready for the Presidency. Palin either - but I do think she’s the more effective of the two and my opinion of her has steadily improved over time.

“Republicans are creatures of habit. We tend to like seeing the same batches of people in one primary after another, and eventually the stable, persistent men get their shot. ”

You’re joking, right? I, for one, am sick of “seeing the same batches of people in one primary after another.” Let’s rid ourselves of professional politicians and raise a generation of leaders who haven’t made careers out of running for office.