Huckabee presidential announcement imminent?

On his radio show this morning, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said he would make "a very important announcement" on his FOX News television show Saturday evening. Urging his Twitter followers to "be sure to check my media schedule for today and the weekend," Huckabee fueled speculation he will finally declare whether he intends to run for the Republican presidential nomination. 

According to his schedule, Huckabee will appear six times over the next two days on the FOX networks, including spots on tonight's "The O'Reilly Factor" and "Fox and Friends" early tomorrow morning. Huckabee also will host his self-titled news hour Saturday and Sunday evening.

One of Huckabee's top advisers refused to answer directly if the announcement concerned his presidential intentions. Hogan Gidley, director of Huckabee's political action committee, HuckPAC, told the New York Times' Caucus blog that, while Huckabee "doesn't throw around 'I've got a big announcement' lingo in a haphazard fashion," he is not sure what Huckabee will discuss in his appearances on the network. 

Huckabee's flurry of appearances comes amid reports Fox News executives were rushing the former governor to announce his intentions for the 2012 campaign. Running for president most likely means Huckabee would have to relinquish his FOX News show and his radio show. Since former speaker of the House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum declared they are running for president, the network suspended their contracts. 

*** UPDATE *** Woody Fraser, executive producer of “Huckabee” said in a statement, per the Times:

“Governor Huckabee will announce tomorrow night on his program whether or not he intends to explore a presidential bid. He has not told anyone at FOX News Channel his decision.”

*** UPDATE 2 *** Ed Rollins, Huckabee's 2008 campaign manager organizing his "campaign-in-waiting" this time, says he doesn't think Huckabee's running.

Discuss this post

Jump to discussion page: 1 2 3 4

The flood gates have finally opened...

You might as well jump into the cesspool Huckleberry!

Those $8.99 videos your hawking will surely enhance the war chest!

So far this week, we've gotton a serial adulterer, a Ayn Rand Disicple and now the preacher man!

  • 22 votes
#1 - Fri May 13, 2011 12:12 PM EDT

"serial adulterer"

Clinton is running again?

  • 21 votes
#1.1 - Fri May 13, 2011 12:46 PM EDT

It'd be hilarious if Clinton ran for the Republican nomination. I wonder how many votes he'd get in the primary. I'm betting it would be more than zero. :P

  • 6 votes
#1.2 - Fri May 13, 2011 12:52 PM EDT

I wonder what is causing all these buffoons to suddenly get INTO the race? Funding deadlines, maybe?

What else could it be? They've got nothing, which is exactly what you get when you are FOR nothing and against EVERYTHING.

  • 20 votes
#1.3 - Fri May 13, 2011 12:59 PM EDT

Question: Why are the Bush people wanting Mitch Daniels to run? Answer: They are not too fond of Huckabee.

The wierd thing is...They all think they could win. Not a chance.

  • 15 votes
#1.4 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:04 PM EDT

Finally, the religious right has a candidate to get behind! The American Taliban(aka Judeo-Christian fundamentalist) must be chomping at the bit, with visions of his victory, so that stoning to death, cutting off hands and gouging out eyes will finally be back in vogue. Their "god" will be soooo proud!

  • 13 votes
#1.5 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:09 PM EDT

If Huckabee announces, does that mean he will appear on FOX less ? I doubt it.

  • 10 votes
#1.6 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:11 PM EDT

LoL Ron ~ I don't like Huckabee, either, but that's not a reason to endorse Daniels.

But, hey, if Huckabee can run, maybe it's not too late for Tommy Thompson.

Now THAT would be sweet.

  • 2 votes
#1.7 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:12 PM EDT
RVZ555Deleted
Comment author avatarbob-1805084Expand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

Many people would rather be a "serial adulterer" than an Azz Pimple.

RVZ, you are too kind.

Seriously, (I like your comments, but) I wasn't being sarcastic ..... that was way too kind for Feisty.

  • 7 votes
#1.9 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:24 PM EDT

Bassai - and the Republcians skewered Clinton. But, the entire time they were attacking him most of them were having their own affairs - Newt Gingrich among them. Newt and his trashy wife are about to experience the same shellacking Clinton did - and deserve it just as much! What a pathetic field the GOP has. Might as well add Palin to the group.

RVZ555 - don't know who the Azz Pimple would be but I'm guessing it is any one of the other Republican "cast of loonies" running.

  • 12 votes
#1.10 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:27 PM EDT

Let them come.....the bigger the lineup,......the more lies and confussion....they will be crying foul and alll be in a fight before it is over......Welcome all GOP comers.......Join in. Can't wait.

  • 11 votes
#1.11 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:37 PM EDT

Hi Anna Molly:

Yep, Daniels was in the Bush 43 administration. Some Republicans cling to their own, Conservates eat their own. I'm expecting the preacher-man to tell us that after deliberation and prayer, God told him to run.

  • 11 votes
#1.12 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:37 PM EDT

And if he does, Ron, how many candidates will that make, so far, that God has encouraged to run? I'm afraid I've lost track.

  • 5 votes
#1.13 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:46 PM EDT

I think the bigger question is WHO would want to be POTUS with where this nation is now? There is no way anyone can be successful in turning the nation around back towards a prosperous, solvent, and respected position without pissing off 80% of the voting public soon into the new administration.

  • 7 votes
#1.14 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:53 PM EDT

One would think the party had enough candidates for "preacher in chief" already.

  • 5 votes
#1.15 - Fri May 13, 2011 2:11 PM EDT

STexan: There is no way anyone can be successful in turning the nation around back towards a prosperous, solvent, and respected position without pissing off 80% of the voting public soon into the new administration.

You do have a point. So I hope you give the guy who's trying some credit. His job is impossible, and yet he's managing to do it.

  • 2 votes
#1.16 - Fri May 13, 2011 2:13 PM EDT

TO: MSpielman who wrote:

“It'd be hilarious if Clinton ran for the Republican nomination…”

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I only wish Bill Clinton could run again. I'd vote for him no matter what he called himself.

That said, you've got The Donald threatening to run, and before now he was a Democrat and donated heavily to Democratic candidates, including, but not limited to, Harry Reid. The only reason The Donald is not running as a Democrat is because President Obama has got a lock on that nomination.

Republcians need to start vetting their candidates and weeding out the wackos, then again, never mind. It's better to put a strain on the contributions so that Republicans will have to either stop contributing to the psychos, or give until it hurts.

  • 5 votes
#1.17 - Fri May 13, 2011 2:16 PM EDT

Well, I would argue Obama has only exacerbated the problems in the time he has ran the show. So, if he complains about the job being "too hard" or demands more time, he has mostly himself to blame at this point and certainly after still another year of no real progress except to have increased our debt by still more leaps and bounds.

But who knows, maybe by next summer unemployment will be below 7% and general inflation will be in check, tax revenues will be up, business owners will be happy, gas will be back to $2.50 ... LMAO

  • 5 votes
#1.18 - Fri May 13, 2011 2:22 PM EDT

Well STexan, it does leave a quandry, doesn't it? Does it make better sense to allow a democrat rock star ruin this country or have a GOP president take the fall for the gigantic debt the government has incurred? Either way this country is screwed. We'll fall into the hands of an inexperienced narcisistic dictator wannabe or a bemused unknown (at this time) who will enter the White House hamstringed.

Either way we go, the larger, more looming issue is the economy. One burp, one bump, or one catastrophe and it doesn't matter who is running the show, our way of life will be over.

I hope everyone is preparing for the dollar's collapse. Time to stock up on food, clothes and essentials is now, before it's too late. Inflation is setting in so what you buy today will be cheaper than tomorrow. Anyone notice the rise in the grocery store? It ain't getting better folks. Politics aside, protect yourself!

  • 5 votes
#1.19 - Fri May 13, 2011 2:22 PM EDT

TO: STexan who wrote:

"… There is no way anyone can be successful in turning the nation around back towards a prosperous, solvent, and respected position without pissing off 80% of the voting public …"

^^^^^^^^^^^

The only thing stopping us from being "prosperous, solvent and respected" nation again is the Republicans who have already admitted many times that they'll do whatever is necessary to force America to fail.

80% of the American People approve of increased taxes and, in particular, a return to Bill Clinton tax rates.

There's only one thing that needs to be done to turn EVERYTHING around, and that is take tax rates back to where they were under President Bill Clinton and everybody knows that, including the GOP, who absolutely refuse because, again, Republicans want America to fail, just like the terrorist Osama Bin Laden wanted it, Republicans got it that way, and are doing everything in their power to keep it that way.

  • 10 votes
#1.20 - Fri May 13, 2011 2:25 PM EDT

Thankful Mom - Don't you understand the Repugnants tactic? I can see it now, at the (R) debates, when the stuff hits the fan and everyone sees these Bozo's under the glare of the studio lights, its all going to be laid at the feet of our POTUS. It will be said, "Our childish behavior is all Obama's fault for putting us in a frenzied mental state". But who knows? Maybe the voters will buy it, "Dumbiyah" was elected(well kinda), right?

  • 7 votes
#1.21 - Fri May 13, 2011 2:36 PM EDT

Hey Feisty, the song used to be:

Bum, bum, bumble bee; bum, bum bumble bee; bum, bum, bum, bum, bum.

Now it'll be:

Bum, bum, Hucklebee; bum, bum Hucklebee; bum, bum, bum, bum, bum.

  • 3 votes
#1.22 - Fri May 13, 2011 2:42 PM EDT

American Girl - There's a bigger problem here than raising taxes. The problem is one side blaming the other. While you tout that republicans are solely at fault, you totally ignore the good they do to try to protect our Constitution. The democrats have huge faults too, but would you admit that? I don't think so.

As an independent I can see faults in both parties. I used to be a republican but they betrayed the course they were set on by capitulation with liberals. What liberals still believe is the republicans are the party of moral values and family. The republicans gave up that claim years ago. I feel they have fallen into a deception.

Being partisan opens one up to the faults of their allegiance.

I am conservative mainly because I can't abide by the tenants of liberalism. Liberals believe that a woman has a right to her body and so do I. I don't believe a woman has a right to an unborn individual inside her body. A distinction that liberals fail to see because an unborn baby is not a part of her body.

I don't have a problem with raising taxes either. I do have a problem with it if the government doesn't control spending at the same time. The solution is to attack the debt from both sides and not lay it on taxpayers solely.

  • 5 votes
#1.23 - Fri May 13, 2011 2:51 PM EDT

And Feisty, let's not forget to include the empty suit for the progressive-democrat party, your lord and savior, Barry Obama.

  • 6 votes
#1.24 - Fri May 13, 2011 3:32 PM EDT

Feisty: you're smart so get it right. You're is a contraction for you are; your is possessive.

And folks? You gotta ignore safecracker. Don't encourage him by responding in any form.

  • 1 vote
#1.25 - Fri May 13, 2011 3:37 PM EDT

Oh william, you are so funny.....it is my day to act like a libbie!

  • 3 votes
#1.26 - Fri May 13, 2011 3:40 PM EDT

safecracker-1205811 must be a euphemisn for a conception error.

  • 1 vote
#1.27 - Fri May 13, 2011 6:16 PM EDT

safecracker-1205811 must be a euphemisn for a conception error.

ROTFLMFAO!

Care for some *popcorn*?

    #1.28 - Fri May 13, 2011 7:07 PM EDT

    The rabid and vicious manner in which all Republican candidates are met with on this forum is as sad as it is funny.

    Understanding is a part of wisdom. Disagreeing without the rampant exaggerations, attacks and name calling are grown up traits.

    I understand that there are vast differences between liberals and conservatives, and the independents just want everyone to get along.

    Bottom line is we have a mess, and our two parties are to blame. We do need solutions, but it seems both parties are better at rearranging deck chairs than actually doing anything.

    We need a Ron Paul kind of character, someone to completely upset the apple cart, because Obama's plan isn't working, Bush's plan didn't work, and we are going to hell fast.

      #1.29 - Fri May 13, 2011 11:17 PM EDT

      Hucklbee will not run for anything otherwise Faux News would have fired him, he is doing a Sarah Palin pick the money while profit and the the going is good - rewrite history for our children Reagan was the next coming - how discusting how these people only want profit - I predicted a year ago Sister Sarah will be who? Huckabee in two years will be who?

      • 1 vote
      #1.30 - Sat May 14, 2011 3:19 AM EDT

      Interesting Feisty - the reasons you seem to be against Gingerich for things liberals defend democrats for. I think, that just saying "I don't think the GOP's path is the right way to go" is sufficient and really what we should be doing.

      • 2 votes
      #1.31 - Sat May 14, 2011 12:27 PM EDT

      Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL

      safecracker-1205811 must be a euphemisn for a conception error.

      ROTFLMFAO!

      Care for some *popcorn*?

      No my favorite Troglodyte, I wouldn't.

        #1.32 - Sun May 15, 2011 2:43 PM EDT
        Reply

        .....Awww the PREACHER huckster. "fraaay-uuuunds- playyyz sey-yund what jeeeesus would have ya to sey-und so I can stay on the are with mah ministries".

        • 7 votes
        Reply#2 - Fri May 13, 2011 12:18 PM EDT

        A word to the far left liberal nuts. The man to whip the harvard teleprompter professor and become the next President of the USA is Paul Ryan. If he decides to put his hat in the ring you can bet Obama and the rest of you liberals might as well sell the ranch.

        Obama is so afraid of Paul Ryan it isn't funny. He tried to discredit Paul Ryan on his masterful budget when Obama had nothing but BS. Keep watch libs you can hang it up and no more nanny handouts.

        You may just have to find a job because there will be no more re-distribution of wealth and no idiotic socialist policies/agendas. DO YOU GET IT!

        • 2 votes
        #2.1 - Fri May 13, 2011 6:53 PM EDT

        My Church of the Holy Moly accepts ALL denominations, but my favorite is the Five Dollar Bill.

          #2.2 - Fri May 13, 2011 7:01 PM EDT

          Rick: um...your hero isn't running for anything (good thing too, since it was his idea to form the circular firing squad for his fellow R's with his plan to dismantle medicare in order to further cut corporate taxes.) Right...the country is just clamoring for new trickle down economics.

            #2.3 - Fri May 13, 2011 10:03 PM EDT

            Rick Colorado your man is dead meat - he had his fifeen minutes plus he's from Wisconsin - under Scott Walker? I say to you take your bible of Aynn Rand and walk in the wilderness - this little boy doesn't even know she was on Social Security - bankrupt and Medicare

            • 1 vote
            #2.4 - Sat May 14, 2011 3:23 AM EDT

            Huckabee... will do what fox wants..hes already collected his 30 pieces of silver .

              #2.5 - Sat May 14, 2011 6:01 AM EDT
              Reply

              (BTW, Feisty- I'm gonna sit on the curb and kick my feet and blubber. YOU got on here first again!)

              • 4 votes
              Reply#3 - Fri May 13, 2011 12:19 PM EDT

              (BTW, Feisty- I'm gonna sit on the curb and kick my feet and blubber. YOU got on here first again!)

              OH NO! Not YOU too! lmao!

              • 3 votes
              #3.1 - Fri May 13, 2011 12:38 PM EDT

              Drive-by: Feisty beat you because she's a more dedicated troll. You need to give up more of a useful personal life and stay on MSNBC reading the headlines.

              • 4 votes
              #3.2 - Fri May 13, 2011 2:35 PM EDT

              Hey imnotlost

              You need to define TROLL; Newt, Donald, doubtless Bill, and countless US Senators are doin' it all the time.

              • 4 votes
              #3.3 - Fri May 13, 2011 3:16 PM EDT

              Ah, the off-hand remarks by the Troglodyte about first posts. HAHAHAHAHA!

              And the sycophants emerge again.

                #3.4 - Fri May 13, 2011 3:33 PM EDT

                Huckleberry Hound enters the GOP Dog Race LMAO!

                • 1 vote
                #3.5 - Fri May 13, 2011 5:52 PM EDT

                Witchking !

                Huck's a dog that's for sure.

                • 2 votes
                #3.6 - Fri May 13, 2011 6:18 PM EDT

                Hey ORB: Are you serious? Define troll? Some of your best friends are trolls and you need to have it defined? Go figure!

                  #3.7 - Fri May 13, 2011 6:24 PM EDT
                  Reply

                  This man actually scares me more than the crazies in his party. On the surface he portrays himself as a smiling, down home preacher with a home spun political philosopy. He is the antithesis of that man. He is deeply religious and, at least to me, his politics are always guided by his religious beliefs. I have no doubt his agenda will have great appeal to the religious right but I'm not ready for a President who would sacrifice our secular liberties for his religious beliefs.

                  Oh...I guess Fox loses another commentator and show.

                  • 15 votes
                  Reply#4 - Fri May 13, 2011 12:21 PM EDT

                  They don't mind, though, as Mike's cleavage is below their standards.

                  • 5 votes
                  #4.1 - Fri May 13, 2011 12:28 PM EDT

                  Heck, it's below MY standards. ;-)

                  • 3 votes
                  #4.2 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:01 PM EDT

                  It's ok Ira, he'll be back at Fox by early next Summer.

                  • 2 votes
                  #4.3 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:56 PM EDT

                  I may be wrong, but I don't think Huck will run, he's got that big new mansion going up in Florida, and the money is getting really good, with the videos and I think he's writing another book. I hope I'm wrong because he will just divide the Rethugs even more, and it would be fun watching the feeding frenzy on Faux news. With Beck leaving (praise the Lord and pass the ammunition), if Huck leaves who will be their new "stars"?

                  • 3 votes
                  #4.4 - Fri May 13, 2011 2:01 PM EDT

                  Ira, every single one of the Republican candidates has some kind of nutty history behind then and Huckabee is no exception. I did like Huckabee, he was very entertaining, and he found his niche in a TV show on Fox.

                  I don't care how many nut cases run, maybe we can even say the more the better because they'll split the ticket and lose the whole thing.

                  BARACK OBAMA 2012!

                  • 5 votes
                  #4.5 - Fri May 13, 2011 2:31 PM EDT

                  BARACK OBAMA 2012 - Not enough change yet

                  BARACK OBAMA 2012 - America was a great country - we're not finished changing that

                  BARACK OBAMA 2012 - Walking on water - with your money in my pocket

                  BARACK OBAMA 2012 - Tee time - 10:00

                  • 6 votes
                  #4.6 - Fri May 13, 2011 3:02 PM EDT

                  Brain - you forgot B. H. 0bama - 1 Term POTUS

                  • 3 votes
                  #4.7 - Fri May 13, 2011 5:10 PM EDT

                  BARACK OBAMA 2012

                  Whew that was fun! When 2012 rolls around we will all see that America is a Center-Left country. My predictions are just hand waving, but our pragmatically liberal president has pretty good odds on beating whomever wins the Conservative nomination.

                  • 2 votes
                  #4.8 - Fri May 13, 2011 7:07 PM EDT

                  Ira Lapin what I heard today is that we will be looking more into his record of Governor, there is a question of releasing a rapist that attacked Clinton's relative - beware Huckabee the tenacles of the Bush administration reaches as far as the Bush's

                    #4.9 - Sat May 14, 2011 3:27 AM EDT
                    Reply

                    Hi Feisty,

                    Those videos are awful, the history of the US according to the evangelicals and republicans, there are more halftruths, omissions that present them to the uneducated,we can look forward to several generations of low information voters in our future

                    And this guy wants to be President!!.

                    • 13 votes
                    Reply#5 - Fri May 13, 2011 12:22 PM EDT

                    we can look forward to several generations of low information voters in our future

                    Hiya Gingerbread Mamma!

                    Regrettably, that's all part of their master plan!

                    Keep em stuck on stupid!

                    • 8 votes
                    #5.1 - Fri May 13, 2011 12:41 PM EDT

                    Exactly so, Feisty.

                    What does everyone think they're doing with their assault on education? They're BREEDING low information voters.

                    • 7 votes
                    #5.2 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:02 PM EDT

                    Ginger, I've seen clips of some of those. What an amazing rewrite of history! All we need is a few dinosaurs walking around Reagan's White house and the image would be complete!

                    • 6 votes
                    #5.3 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:06 PM EDT
                    RVZ555Deleted

                    Anna - they have to breed low information voters - they're the only ones who will vote GOP.

                    RVZ555 - smoking those funny cigarettes again are ya?

                    • 3 votes
                    #5.5 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:31 PM EDT

                    @Gingerbread: Opinion is now truth. Truth is to be doubted. Get with the New World Order Program or you won't be allowed any carrots anymore. Celery either.

                    • 1 vote
                    #5.6 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:33 PM EDT

                    Yet it's Obama who is out pandering for voters by telling people that the Republicans are going to come after them with alligators.

                    LoL Wouldn't put it past you. But honestly, gators are too smart to be used that way. I guess you'll just have to do it yourselves.

                    • 3 votes
                    #5.7 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:39 PM EDT

                    "..it's Obama who is out pandering for voters by telling people that the Republicans are going to come after them with alligators."

                    Did you drop acid this morning? What was it- Haze? Sunshine??

                    • 5 votes
                    #5.8 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:43 PM EDT

                    RVZ555----

                    You are a classic example of a low information voter!

                    The President never said alligators would be eating people. The notion was originally advanced by Pat Buchanan 20 years ago that we might need to build a moat with alligators to keep the Mexicans out.

                    Get your facts straight before you start telling lies about our President.

                    • 8 votes
                    #5.9 - Fri May 13, 2011 2:02 PM EDT

                    Hi Sheila,

                    The Republicans just make up there own facts. As Feisty and others pointed out, low information voters, stuck on stupid.

                    • 3 votes
                    #5.10 - Fri May 13, 2011 2:16 PM EDT

                    Job1: There is a demonstrative adjective; their is plural possessive. You and Feisty, jeez. I gotta keep you Libs literate here so we can easily tell the Good Guys from the RW crackers.

                      #5.11 - Fri May 13, 2011 3:47 PM EDT

                      Job1-

                      The scary thing is Republicans making up their own facts and the Low Information Voters believing the lies.

                      I tell you it is downright frightening!

                      Case in point. One of those fools from the Bush administration said that "enhanced interrogation" of KSM led us to bin Laden and by nightfall on Monday after the death of UBL, it was being repeated over and over again.

                      Jon Stewart made a joke about it with his Ocean's Eleven spoof but I laughed only for a minute.

                      Those people are scary! They don't know the truth and worst yet they don't wish to know the truth.

                      • 2 votes
                      #5.12 - Fri May 13, 2011 4:21 PM EDT

                      Sheila they have been trying to edify Sir Ronnie as the first coming if you really want to know who this person was google his Kitchen Cabinet - the first to Starve the Beast - get rid of all Social Programs - and worst of all he had Altzeimers in his second term - they used him as their flag boy!

                        #5.13 - Sat May 14, 2011 3:48 AM EDT
                        Reply

                        Not sure how the Huckster will be able to explain away why he commuted the 95-year jail sentence of Maurice Clemmons (extensive violent crimal history, including aggravated robbery and theft) after only 11 years.  Mr. Clemmons, BTW, proved his lack of rehab/remorse by subsequently MURDERING FOUR POLICE OFFICERS IN COLD BLOOD.

                        • 2 votes
                        Reply#6 - Fri May 13, 2011 12:37 PM EDT

                        Got a citation for that? I'd love to read more about it.

                          #6.1 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:03 PM EDT
                          RVZ555Deleted
                          RVZ555Deleted

                          RVZ555 - "probably" doesn't cut it. The governor makes the final decision to sign a parole board's recommendation. He can refuse to do it. Don't blame it on the "liberals."

                          And, we don't have any idea who he would have in the White House. If we're lucky, we never will have to find out.

                          • 4 votes
                          #6.4 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:33 PM EDT

                          RVZ555:

                          Probably under pressure from liberals to give a poor black man a break."

                          After this, you'd be very hard-pressed to ever accuse anyone here of being in the tank for Obama. Talk about an apologist.

                          You've just put yourself in the tank for the new Michael Dukakis. LoL

                          • 2 votes
                          #6.5 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:42 PM EDT

                          "... That's Huck's prob. He's too nice."

                          you DID! you DID! You DID drop acid!!

                          • 3 votes
                          #6.6 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:45 PM EDT

                          LoL dbo, these last few threads have just made my day. ;-)

                          • 1 vote
                          #6.7 - Fri May 13, 2011 2:01 PM EDT

                          And how quickly we forget the people Clinton forgave. And how much money did he collect for his efforts?

                          • 1 vote
                          #6.8 - Fri May 13, 2011 3:35 PM EDT

                          RMZ...Nice try with the race baiting. The Huck-up was actually convinced that Clemmons had accepted "Jesus". Because of his blatant inability to seperate church and state, four police officers lost their lives. I'm sorry that you have chosen to use that fact to serve your uninformed comment. I'm sure there are four families in Washington that truly appreciate your lack of compassion and complete disrespect for the men and women of law enforcement.

                          Huck-up did nothing more than try to blame everyone but himself. He couldn't even be bothered to apologize to the families of the murdered police officers. Huck-up is an extremely dangerous man (either because he is completely brainwashed or because he is just too cold hearted to care) and the world is a safer place without him in public office. Let FOX dictate his every move for him - Lord knows he shouldn't be allowed to make his own decisions.

                          • 1 vote
                          #6.9 - Fri May 13, 2011 5:05 PM EDT

                          Hey Feisty Redhead I too am from Chicago - South Side meaner than a junk yard dog and let me tell you Sister Sarah has been in it for the money - old song once you've Paree, once she's seen Neiman Marcus - I know for a fact they don't ship to Alaska and Huckabee another opportunist - what is the salary of the president - $460,000 a year these two vipers are into the bigger cash

                          • 1 vote
                          #6.10 - Sat May 14, 2011 3:42 AM EDT

                          Jerseyjon what the devil has your posting to do about this conversation - go somewhere else and vent your spleen we are talking about Mike Huckabee

                            #6.11 - Sat May 14, 2011 3:51 AM EDT
                            Reply

                            I personally like Huckabee over any of the other candidates. Just wish Christy or Rubio would run...

                            • 6 votes
                            Reply#7 - Fri May 13, 2011 12:37 PM EDT

                            Rubio? He hasn't found his way to the lunch room yet!

                            • 4 votes
                            #7.1 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:08 PM EDT

                            Christie, he can't leave the lunch room ever!

                            • 5 votes
                            #7.2 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:13 PM EDT

                            Amused----

                            OMG That was some funny isht!

                            • 2 votes
                            #7.3 - Fri May 13, 2011 2:05 PM EDT
                            Reply

                            And the Reverend's position on torturing POWs?

                            • 2 votes
                            Reply#8 - Fri May 13, 2011 12:40 PM EDT

                            kevin foisie..

                            Mike Huckabee opposes torture and acknowledges that waterboarding is, indeed, torture.

                            After the Iowa poll showed that Republican voters like him but found him much less "presidential" and "electable" than Romney, Huckabee sought to build his foreign policy credentials, meeting with a group of retired generals who are in Des Moines to urge the 2008 candidates to commit to opposing torture. After the meeting, Huckabee joined Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in declaring his opposition to the interrogation procedure known as "waterboarding," and said he would support closing the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a contrast with the other leading Republicans.

                            But why did he need to be convinced? You would think that a man who is intimately familiar with the life and teachings of Christ would have figured out a long time ago that torture is an inexcusable assault on the God-given dignity of human beings; and that it does as much, if not more, to degrade the torturer as it does the victim.

                            I don't find it particularly encouraging that Huckabee needed John McCain and a group of retired generals to help him understand that. We already have has a supposedly Christian president with a broken moral compass who needed to be cajoled into doing the right thing. Do we need another?

                            • 6 votes
                            #8.1 - Fri May 13, 2011 12:51 PM EDT

                            We well may find, that just because he's stated his opposition to torture, there could be a heavenly intercession from above or wherever, to allow said torture. Read the gory "Old Testament", a virtual blood bath.

                              #8.2 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:17 PM EDT

                              Did you read the post? I questioned what took him so long to come out against it. Where does it say I was for torture?

                              • 1 vote
                              #8.3 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:23 PM EDT

                              I find it telling that the liberals on here don't like Huck becasue he is TOO RELIGIOUS but when he 'needed to be convinced' about waterboarding you find fault... since a religious man should know that it is torture.

                              Damned if you do... and damned if you don't. Go figure.

                              • 4 votes
                              #8.4 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:32 PM EDT

                              SickOfTheBickering..

                              I find it telling that the liberals on here don't like Huck becasue he is TOO RELIGIOUS but when he 'needed to be convinced' about waterboarding you find fault... since a religious man should know that it is torture.

                              ....................................................................

                              Missed your point or you missed mine.

                              Why does ANY man need to be convinced that torture is wrong...especially a man of God.

                              • 3 votes
                              #8.5 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:40 PM EDT

                              If Huck really believes in God, he also believes whatever will be will be, and that it's allready laid out and decided. Huck must just KNOW whoever will be president is already a shoe-in! He MUST think it's HIM!! Let's all hide and watch, OK? Should be fun.

                              • 1 vote
                              #8.6 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:49 PM EDT

                              God told him he would be president.

                              • 2 votes
                              #8.7 - Fri May 13, 2011 2:39 PM EDT
                              Reply
                              RVZ555Deleted

                              Hackabee is a creationist. I don't mind people believing in things that can't be proven false, but I do have a problem with people believing something that is provably false.

                              • 9 votes
                              Reply#10 - Fri May 13, 2011 12:53 PM EDT

                              Mark - Does this mean that Adam and Eve didn't ride dinosaurs, like the Flintstones? Now what can I believe in?<sarcasm>

                              • 3 votes
                              #10.1 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:31 PM EDT

                              Hey Mark... what about religious tolerance?

                              Aren't we all supposed to be tolerant of 'OTHER' religions like Islam?

                              Why all the hate for the Christians?

                              • 2 votes
                              #10.2 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:36 PM EDT

                              Sick, I'm a Christian and I don't believe that the earth and everything else we see was created 4,000 years ago.

                              Faith and customs are one thing. Belief in something that is proved by science to be false is another thing altogether.

                              Put another way, would you vote for somone who believed that the earth is flat, even if it was a tenet of their faith. I wouldn't think so.

                              • 4 votes
                              #10.3 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:43 PM EDT

                              Did Adam and Eve have belly-buttons?

                              • 1 vote
                              #10.4 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:50 PM EDT

                              "Aren't we all supposed to be tolerant of 'OTHER' religions like Islam?"

                              Yes, we are. BUT- we still shouldn't have any one of them running our govenment. Get it, now?

                              • 1 vote
                              #10.5 - Fri May 13, 2011 2:37 PM EDT
                              Reply

                              HUCKY seems like a down-home, "aw shucks", back-slapping, amiable soul with a heart.

                              However, the fact that he is a member of the S.Baptist fundie cult is scary. I place him in with the other right-wing whackos like Gingrich, Bachmann, Palin & Santorum. They would be dangerous for America.

                                Reply#11 - Fri May 13, 2011 12:54 PM EDT

                                This Huckster is a sure looser!Let him stay with Fox and finish his Florida mansion!Or better still produce distorted American history cartons for the red states!!

                                • 6 votes
                                Reply#12 - Fri May 13, 2011 12:59 PM EDT
                                RVZ555Deleted

                                RVZ555..

                                Hey Bon. Huckabee knows how to spell "loser." You don't. And explain what an "American history carton" is, please. Maybe you're the "looser".

                                ....................................................................

                                Instead of posting this crap, why don't you come up with a post explaining why Huckabee would be a good candidate. This adds zero to the conversation and just makes you look foolish.

                                • 4 votes
                                #12.2 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:13 PM EDT
                                RVZ555Deleted

                                To RVZ and Ira: You are hearby rewarded with the "Friday Gold Star" spelling award. Wear it with pride, even if your both "losers", god's gotta love ya!

                                • 1 vote
                                #12.4 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:36 PM EDT

                                Um, it's "hereby." Oh, and "you're."

                                • 2 votes
                                #12.5 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:47 PM EDT

                                RVZ dropped acid, and has 'freaked out'- please cut him some slack.

                                • 1 vote
                                #12.6 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:52 PM EDT

                                chick - OK! You are hereby granted the "Friday Gold Star" spelling award as well. Wear it with pride etc. God, I'm super busy today and am running out of gold stars.

                                  #12.7 - Fri May 13, 2011 2:09 PM EDT

                                  I got a kick out of the Huckabee preview clip I saw of his new animated history lesson videos for kids. That piece was on the Saint Regan Revolution. It sure is a boat load of crap.

                                    #12.8 - Fri May 13, 2011 2:32 PM EDT

                                    Huckabee falls in the category of "Anybody but 0bama." Seems like we are always voting for the lesser of 2 evils. I wish Hillary would come in to save the day for the Dems so that we would have a choice between 2 candidates. Now it is just the candidate who is not 0bama.

                                    • 1 vote
                                    #12.9 - Fri May 13, 2011 2:49 PM EDT

                                    black_belt3

                                    Fortunately for most Americans and the NATO allies, Hillarity will be out of the picture by 2012. She is far too divisive and her unbridled ambitions for high office serve herself and the American people poorly. She got the top cabinet job out of Obama, but she refuses to be a team playe. She doesn't want anything to happen on her watch that will make Obama look good. That makes her distressingly ineffective.

                                    • 1 vote
                                    #12.10 - Fri May 13, 2011 3:08 PM EDT

                                    ORB - the most divisive person in America is 0bama. Hillary did a good job with Panetta and Petraeus of forcing 0bama to get bin Laden when he and Valerie Jarrett didn't want to act. I will defer to the liberals themselves to get their candidate together but I see Hillary as one who could ride to the rescue of the Dem party and then we would all benefit in having to candidates who are light years better than 0bama.

                                    • 1 vote
                                    #12.11 - Fri May 13, 2011 5:21 PM EDT

                                    Black Belt and ORB: what is your standard for "divisive"? Anyone capable of being elected has to appeal to >50% of the electorate, which will inevitably anger the other half. If Obama was not "divisive" then he would be too lame to get much done. Most of the anger at Obama is based on him doing the things us center-lefties elected him to do. Such as generally pissing off the reactionaries. :) Sorry, just having fun.

                                    As for Hillary, she has been a good Sec. of State. A hard edge to Obama's more peace-nik tendencies and Biden's blue-collar folksiness. I will probably vote for her in 2016.

                                      #12.12 - Fri May 13, 2011 7:32 PM EDT

                                      Hillary can come in and save the Dem party from certain defeat in 2012. In 2016 she will be facing an incumbent POTUS and will be 69 years old. If she is ever going to be POTUS she needs to get in there now when the Dem party has a very unpopular POTUS that doesn't have a clue as to what he is doing. 25% say they strongly support him and 37% strongly do not support him. His signature legislation is going to be ruled unconstitutional and he will be run out of DC on Jan 20 2013 to go organize for Rahmbo. Much to the chagrin of the 0bama koolaid drinkers.

                                      • 1 vote
                                      #12.13 - Fri May 13, 2011 8:36 PM EDT

                                      black_belt - I must strongly disagree with you assessment of the POTUS's electability. His signature legislation, IMHO will be upheld, you may disagree but that's not how I see it happening. When it comes to negative polling, the clowns currently being considered for the (R) nomination all have heavy baggage to carry and when it comes down to a decision between the POTUS and whoever, the electorate will back the POTUS. In regards to Hillary Clinton, who by the way was my first choice in 2008, she I believe, will not run against the POTUS and split the Democratic Party, so sorry, to pop your pipe dream, but that dog won't hunt.

                                        #12.14 - Fri May 13, 2011 9:29 PM EDT
                                        Reply

                                        So Huckabee is going to say something big on Faux tonight. Glad I'll be at work and can catch the the comments later. The God Folk are coming out. I assume they---------------gee, I dunno. I guess they, "Is just going to be out there-somewhere.

                                        • 1 vote
                                        Reply#13 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:29 PM EDT

                                        (Huckabee) = (George W. Bush) - .5(Brain)

                                        • 2 votes
                                        Reply#14 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:32 PM EDT

                                        So will his campaign be in pop up form, he's now selling kids videos on "History" which he's rewritten all by himself, maybe he can do a pop up book showing him running for office and rewrite his history the way he did with Regan and American history in the little kids videos.

                                        • 1 vote
                                        Reply#15 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:43 PM EDT

                                        The reason they have gone back to the elementry school level with these cartoons.....Is a typical evangelical nut job and a republican slimmy method to start brain washing kids when they are young....we have all gotten to smart for them to appeal to....cant't win in 2012.....how about 2020? Give me a break!

                                        • 3 votes
                                        Reply#16 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:43 PM EDT

                                        Have you seen his audience?!? I think the cartoons may have been a bit too sophisticated for the ADULTS that think this man has any credit.

                                        A more accurate pop-up book should show one of his born again, released felons gunning down four police officers. They can dress him up in a "Disco" shirt if that will make the Huck-up happy.

                                          #16.1 - Fri May 13, 2011 5:31 PM EDT
                                          Reply

                                          "while Huckabee "doesn't throw around 'I've got a big announcement' lingo in a haphazard fashion,"... Did I read that part right?

                                          WHAT? We are talking about MIKE Huckabee here, right? The most self-serving, self-promoting, money grabbing smoozer, media publicity junkie...THAT Mike Huckabee? Yeah, let the games begin...cue the dancing elephants...

                                          • 2 votes
                                          Reply#17 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:44 PM EDT

                                          I wish one of these guys would show a sense of humor, whip up the media frenzy, and then announce that he will NOT be running for the nomination.

                                          • 1 vote
                                          Reply#18 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:45 PM EDT

                                          Leave Mr Trump out of this....

                                          • 3 votes
                                          #18.1 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:53 PM EDT

                                          Was I talking about Trump? Oh wait, maybe I was..."Money grabbing smoozer, self promoter, media junkie,"...hmmm, could be Newt or Sarah Palin or... gosh, look at those elephants dance...

                                          • 3 votes
                                          #18.2 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:59 PM EDT

                                          Chick - I think Gov Barber would be the poster boy for that tactic. Or maybe Michelle Bachman, Sarah Palin, Paul Ryan or "The Donald". There are so many involved in this nefarious conspiracy that nearly everyone is already tired of this "d@#k teaser" tactic. But to each their own.

                                          • 1 vote
                                          #18.3 - Fri May 13, 2011 2:17 PM EDT
                                          Reply

                                          Huckabee endorses pseudo-historian David Barton's revisionist history of our country, his attempts to erase the separation of church and state (Barton claims that when the U.S. Constitution says that the Congress will not respect the establishment of religion it only means that they can't favor one Christian denomination over anoth, but that the founders intended America to be a Christian nation.

                                          Barton's fairy tales are not just bad history (they are amply discredited by real historians, Google it), but potentially dangerous because of nationally-known political leaders like Huckabee, Bachmann, Gingrich, and others, who lend his baloney credibility. The Huck and other candidates must be pressed to give their views on church-state separation if we don't want America to become a theocracy.

                                          • 4 votes
                                          Reply#19 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:45 PM EDT

                                          Don't worry, the corporatocracy would never let that happen.

                                            #19.1 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:48 PM EDT

                                            My big question is whether or not he is going to drag the Neanderthal thinker Chuck Norris around with him this time. Norris, like Huckabee, believes all disease comes from sin. These are stated fundamentalists. Would you cast a vote for a Taliban candidate if they were running? Imagine prayer meetings to work on a balanced budget? And the end result then being further cuts to the poor and further tax breaks for corporations. That's the kind of contradictory nonsense we would see for a start.

                                            No one knows what an American run by a charismatic, fundamentalist right wing preacher would look like. Let's hope we never find out. Don't even confuse GW Bush and his Christian beliefs with Huckabee. Like comparing Joel Osteen to John Hagee.

                                            • 1 vote
                                            #19.2 - Fri May 13, 2011 2:10 PM EDT
                                            Reply

                                            Run Huck run, everybody else is!

                                              Reply#20 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:48 PM EDT

                                              I consider myself an Independent, by my definition that means someone who thinks for themselves and votes for the lessor of two evils. In 2000, that would have been McCain, in 2008, it wasn't McCain. Huntsman has possibilities, but there is no way I would vote for Huckleberry or Gingrich.

                                              Independents and Moderates are the key to the next election. I don't see them voting Republican in 2012 even if Huntsman is the candidate. Do you really want the Republicans to control Congress and the Presidency?

                                              • 2 votes
                                              Reply#21 - Fri May 13, 2011 1:58 PM EDT

                                              What would be fantastic, is someone who actually could take the reins and run those horses in the right direction and in view of the total political field.....The winner is... Mr. Nobody.

                                              NOTE: Wal Mart has a special on darts and blindfolds.

                                                #21.1 - Fri May 13, 2011 8:40 PM EDT
                                                Reply

                                                He won't run as he cannot afford to do so. It's a shame, though, as at least he has a somewhat jolly personality for a fascist. Not so the other candidates.

                                                  Reply#22 - Fri May 13, 2011 2:03 PM EDT

                                                  Here come the clowns.

                                                  • 1 vote
                                                  Reply#23 - Fri May 13, 2011 2:12 PM EDT

                                                  I was thinking about ELP's Karn Evil #9:

                                                  Welcome to the show!

                                                  I could never get past someone announcing on his or her show that they will be running for President. It's all about the ratings and selling of books for these showpeople.

                                                    #23.1 - Fri May 13, 2011 3:10 PM EDT

                                                    I know what you mean: ELP singing, "Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends..." This election already feels like it's been going on for years and 2011 isn't even half over. sigh

                                                      #23.2 - Fri May 13, 2011 4:10 PM EDT

                                                      It has, ever since Obamanation took office. He never left campain mode!

                                                        #23.3 - Sat May 14, 2011 10:25 AM EDT
                                                        Reply

                                                        Excellent point Anna Molly.

                                                          Reply#24 - Fri May 13, 2011 2:16 PM EDT

                                                          Let the circus begin.... ( newsvine, you gonna disbable my account for this one ? )

                                                          • 4 votes
                                                          Reply#25 - Fri May 13, 2011 2:16 PM EDT

                                                          Huackabee was also the one who said Obama was born and raised in Kenya and had a "different" background........until he retracted the statement when called on it.

                                                          • 1 vote
                                                          Reply#26 - Fri May 13, 2011 2:36 PM EDT

                                                          Any bets on who is gonna replace Chuck Norris?

                                                          My money is on Ted Nugent.

                                                            #26.1 - Fri May 13, 2011 2:44 PM EDT

                                                            Chuck is the one who told God to tell Mike to run again. He's irreplaceable.

                                                              #26.2 - Fri May 13, 2011 3:32 PM EDT

                                                              Poor, poor Chuck; all he wants is a lift, but I don't think he can fit any bigger ones in his boots.

                                                              • 1 vote
                                                              #26.3 - Fri May 13, 2011 8:44 PM EDT
                                                              Reply
                                                              Jump to discussion page: 1 2 3 4
                                                              You're in Easy Mode. If you prefer, you can use XHTML Mode instead.
                                                              As a new user, you may notice a few temporary content restrictions. Click here for more info.