Huckabee Hints at 2016 Presidential Run

[brooklynite]

Source: Newsmax

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has revealed to Newsmax that he is looking at a possible bid for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016.

Asked in a Newsmax TV interview if he is considering another White House run, Huckabee declares: “Yeah, I’m not ruling it out at this point.

“I’m not sitting around having meetings with the strategic team, but it’s something I will certainly look at and I’m talking to some people just to determine whether it’s a kamikaze raid or whether it has potential and possibility.”

Read more: http://www.newsmax.com/newswidget/huckabee-presidential-run-not/2013/03/20/id/495520

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Maybe if all the children in the world pray REAL hard.....

[srican69]

1. please proceed Governer.

[alsame]

3. +1 Those primaries will be another freak show. nt

[AndyTiedye]

19. What If He Wins?

They are planning to gerrymander the Electoral College next time. They got rebuffed in Virginia, but in most of the swing states,
there is nothing we can do to stop them.

The gerrymander would give the Rapeuglicans a lock on the Presidency, even if it's Fuckabee running.

[graham4anything]

26. Actually, that was debunked. In reality, it isn't happening, and would backfire.

President Obama would have won in 2012 by the landslide he did regardless of any change.
President Clinton will win in 2016 by just as big a landslide.

The oddity would be PA.
If Jeb picks Christie, it is quite possible they could contend in PA.
Should PA change, it would actually help Hillary/Napolitano win even more electoral votes.

Which is why in the end, 100% of all democratic voters have to vote in 2013, 2014,2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. 2019, 2020 for the democratic candidate or the one who will caucus with the party, and make sure that come 2020 census, the democratic party has the upper control.

[Le Taz Hot]

30. He won't.

Jeb Bush will be the GOP candidate.

[monmouth3]

2. It just gets better and better, doesn't it?

[Blue Owl]

4. The GOP brand needs a little "Shazayam"

n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. The clown car may have to be traded in for a van.

It's beginning to fill up already.

[lastlib]

13. they may need a Greyhound bus......

...with maybe a kennel truck for the rabid dogs.......

[Auntie Bush]

45. LOL

[LeftofObama]

6. Jump in Gov.!

The other clowns are waiting.

[DainBramaged]

7. Bring it on Huck face....

[onehandle]

8. Fill the Krazy Klown Kar early! nt

[Iliyah]

9. Another CRAZY pre-election,

the loonies are coming out again. Rick Perry, Rand Paul and now him.

[Joe Bacon]

10. Wayne Dumond

That will tank Huck Sinn!

[PSPS]

12. No kidding.

He may have some traction in the miniscule rump that is now the totality of the GOP "base" but he'll never get anywhere in a national election. Places like newsmax and other corporate media would still be delighted to see him run because it would add to their freak show ad revenue.

[thunderbolt brown420]

11. huckleberry never a dull minute

all I an say is if ythe repukes can't find a better place to waste their money,than on this fool who thinks he is Gods gift really need to think long and hard because if they think they made us look bad we can make them look worse if they run fearing holy manthis excuse for a god-fearing holy man

[Permanut]

14. I'm getting a vibe..

that God wants you to run, Huckster.

[LoisB]

15. Why? Isn't he making enough money doing whatever it is he's doing these days?

Maybe he could start a church in Glen Beck's Galt City or Freedomville or whatever he's building.

[Thor_MN]

16. Newsmax? Seriously?

[BigDemVoter]

17. What a stupid asshole. . .

And a greedy one, too, from what I hear. Apparently that asswipe has never heard about giving alms for the poor.

What an embarrassment it would be to have him in the WH. . . But then again, we had GWB for 8 years--

[SoapBox]

18. Start the KRAZY talk now!

...and here I thought that it was only going to be 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Come to find, it's already time for 2016 2016 2016 2016 2016 2016 2016 2016 2016 2016 2016 2016!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe the campaigns will focus on 911 911 911 911 911 911 911 911 911 911 911 911 911 911 911!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[brooklynite]

23. Sorry, but Rudy Giuliani has a much more important goal these days...

Rudy Giuliani Becomes Pitchman For LifeLock

Rudy Giuliani, former crime-busting mayor of New York City, has taken a new job: TV pitchman.

Television ads featuring the 2008 presidential candidate and onetime D.A. have recently begun airing. In them, Giuliani warns viewers of the dangers of identity theft and touts the services of ID-protection company LifeLock.

http://news.yahoo.com/rudy-giuliani-becomes-pitchman-lifelock-015001522.html

[danbeee46]

20. Yum

If Huck and Christie are both running, I'd like to see them at a campaign buffet. But don't get in their way.

[ZRT2209]

22. who can snarf down the most Chic-fil-A

[olddots]

21. Huckster & Cruz 2016

I'll make lawn signs and bumper stickers to sell at cult meetings .

[oldandhappy]

24. He wants to travel on the money of others

Travel and eat and call room service and flap his jaw. Maybe play the guitar. I like that part! But actually run? Naw. He has a well feathered nest and he looks as if it sure is comfortable.

[blkmusclmachine]

25. When Theocracy arrives in the United States, it will we wrapped in the Flag, dragging a Cross,

and patrolling our neighborhood skies with 30,000 armed Blackwater Drones.

[Historic NY]

27. The funny the hucklaberry wants to run again.

[Nitram]

28. Go for it Huck!

Love to have the GOP field clogged with squabbling wingnuts again.

[Art_from_Ark]

29. I've got a campaign slogan he can use:

"Vote for the Dope from Hope"

Pretty catchy, huh?

[Orsino]

31. Someone must have told him it was the 1816 election. n/t

[DesertRat]

32. Looking at him I'd say he's not running anywhere

[JCMach1]

33. his candidacy is DOA

[markiv]

34. sorry, this fame meter has 15 minute limit - nt

[Nye Bevan]

35. I see this guy as potentially more dangerous than someone like Gingrich.

Same policies but cloaked in an affable veneer.

[sofa king]

36. There were strange things about the Hucksters.

They were easy to spot the last couple of times around. Many of them had highly technical professions, or were studying them; all were deeply religious; most were evangelistic in both their religion and politics, and seemed to be propelled toward trying to sell Huckabee's peculiar brand of upbeat malevolence.

I don't understand exactly why, but Huckabee has more of the stature of a religious figure than as a politician among his adherents. That is highly unusual to me, considering the deeply un-Christian (in theory, not practice) live-and-let-die policies he clearly supports.

It suggests to me that Huckabee might be attracting only those people who can be comfortable with that sort of contradiction, thereby serving as a strong attractant for the conservative base and as a repellant to the 77 percent of Americans who know better.

So welcome aboard, Huck! Better hope Jeb picks you as a running mate and not the other way around....

[yurbud]

38. that odd mix of social darwinism and biblical literalism is losing its grip on younger evangelicals

if nothing else, kids will always figure out a way to rebel against their parents.

Also, kids might have noticed that GOP policies have made their lives much harder and their futures much dimmer than their parents was.

[sofa king]

40. Rich kids love him....

... But only 31% of Americans under 30 have full-time jobs; many of them, I am sure, have never had a full-time job.

That ain't the path to fat, racist, and scared, which is the core demographic Huckabee cultivates. Instead, they are profiting from the poverty of their children.

So I think things are gonna change pretty soon, and pretty damned quick when it does. Wish it were tomorrow, and not in ten years.

[yurbud]

42. the change coming: Republican Party dies, Dems become the new corporate white meat, and

a new "second" party rises up on its left. Hopefully it will be a real party and not a sock puppet of the wealthy like the current two.

If that doesn't happen, there will be a more radical change they may or may not have a positive outcome.

[Tom Rinaldo]

39. He is.

He's stronger than any of the Republicans who competed for the nomination last time. He has executive government experience that he won't try to run away from like Romney did. He also has much better stage presence than the last lot had, and a thin populist streak thing going on also. We should be able to beat him fairly easy - but he is not another Bachman.

[David Zephyr]

46. He pardoned people that went out and raped and murdered more people.

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He will be very vulnerable in a GOP primary and it will be used against him. All of that wasn't out there the first time he ran.

I won't run because he's a coward. And he knows it.

[Tom Rinaldo]

47. I considered that, but now I think he can't win nationally because of his opposition to Gay Marriage

The Huckster has had a number of years to perfect how he would deal with the pardon issue. He is perfectly capable of saying on one hand that he is a Christian minister and that he was moved by his love of Jesus to offer forgiveness to some who seemed to have earned it but that he has firmly gotten the message now, maybe even from the big guy looking down, that justice must be served in this world blah blah. He has better verbal skills than the average Republican. But by 2016 his hard line against Gay Marriage will sink him with younger voters especially.

[David Zephyr]

48. He knows that any GOP primary contender will use it against him. It's why he didn't run this cycle.

He can't win the GOP nomination. Never. He might still be able to win an Iowa caucus, but I doubt that as well.

Jeb will be the nominee.

[yurbud]

37. Great! But who will be his Sgt. Carter running mate?

Mike Huckabee and his yet to be named running mate:

[dembotoz]

41. more pr friendly than romney, less baggage, no mormon problem

give the evangelicals one of their own-seems brighter than frothy

be careful what you wish for

while blasting Romney was fun and a acceptable
would blasting a minister be seen as bad form and mean?????

[jessie04]

43. Run Huckabee...run to the Arctic circle....and stay there

Idiot

[Enrique]

44. what's he sellling these days?

whatever it is, he can charge more if people think he's running for prez.