Mike Huckabee

[turkeytalker]

Why wasn't he the conservative candidate again? This guy should chair the GOP!

[Scott7m]

i enjoy watching his show when i catch him on.. he's got a good way of getting his point across without having to yell and act like a monkey..

[KY_Fried]

I can't stand the guy. He probably would have been better then what we ended up with but that's not saying anything. Just another Conservative talk show host that talks and talks for hours but never has anything to say. He'll be forgotten about soon enough.

[Scott7m]

I can't stand the guy. He probably would have been better then what we ended up with but that's not saying anything. Just another Conservative talk show host that talks and talks for hours but never has anything to say. He'll be forgotten about soon enough.


lol.............. he says more that makes sense every minute than obama said during his whole campaign.

[ducknbuckhunter]

he is a devote christian.... not affraid of it either;););)

[drakeshooter]

Good article I read yesterday:

By Howard Wilkinson, The Cincinnati Enquirer

CINCINNATI — Former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee had a message for his party's leadership, still licking its wounds after the November election, as he headed for Cincinnati on Tuesday for a book-signing session: Quit blaming others, and look at yourselves.

"You hear these Republicans bragging about not raising taxes, when they've been spending out of control, racking up huge deficits and then kicking the can down the road," the former Arkansas governor told The Enquirer, calling from the bus that is taking him on a 56-city tour to promote his new book, Do The Right Thing.

Workers at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Norwood, Ohio, set up a podium Tuesday afternoon in front of the store's ground-floor fireplace and had 500 copies of Do The Right Thing for Huckabee to sign.

About 200 were in line when Huckabee began signing a few minutes before the scheduled start, and the line continued to grow.

Terry Hogan of Amberley Village, Ohio, was first in line. She had volunteered in Huckabee's presidential campaign earlier this year. Now she is a fan of Huckabee's weekly talk show on Fox.

"He's so genuine and such a spiritual man," Hogan said. "He comes across as a person who is respectful of all people, even when he has guests on the show that you know he disagrees with strongly."

Huckabee told The Enquirer that eight years of a Republican in the White House — with Republicans in charge of Congress for six of those eight years — produced nothing but record deficits and bigger government.

"Republicans didn't lose because they were social conservatives," said Huckabee, a former Baptist preacher who won the Iowa caucuses in January. "They lost because they have been irresponsible with the taxpayers' money."

That fact, Huckabee said, doomed GOP nominee John McCain and Republicans running for Congress from one end of the country to the other.

"If you advertise one thing and you deliver another, people are going to start reaching for another product off the shelf," he said.

Huckabee said that while "the headwinds were strong against Republicans" in 2008, he thinks McCain had a chance until he suspended his campaign in September to return to Washington to help fashion a Wall Street bailout package.

"That turned off the base, who didn't think it was right," Huckabee said.

Huckabee — who now has his own show, Huckabee, airing on Saturdays on the Fox News Channel — said it is "too early to tell" if he will make another bid for the GOP nomination in 2012.

His book was written before McCain chose Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate; and it now appears that Palin and Huckabee — along with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney — could become rivals in the next presidential election cycle.

Palin appeals to the same social conservatives who flocked to Huckabee's campaign earlier this year. Tuesday, he gave her credit "for bringing a lot of enthusiasm to the party; she excited the base."

© Copyright 2007 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. Inc. (http://www.gannett.com/)

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-12-03-huckabee-republicans_N.htm?csp=34

[mrdux]

People seem to forget that McCain was the GOP nominee only because lots of states let their Democraps cross party lines and they voted for McCain because he was the weakest of the GOP candidates. They got what they wanted in McCain and Obama.

I was not a Huckabee fan due to his stance on immigration but he is a strong conservative voice and would have without a doubt been a better candidate than McCain. Huckabee would have owned Obama in the debates.

We haven't heard the last of him.

[killinmammals]

We haven't heard the last of him.
I'd say not, we may here from him in 4 years...heck, I hope we hear from someone who can make a new "change"...we sure will need it by then