Huckabee Re-Opens Door?

Speaking today at the Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock, Gov. Huckabee seems to have decided to re-open the door to running for president ever-so-slightly.

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Governor Huckabee, its not too late to change your mind.

President Obama came out today with a surprise policy announcement that, if implemented, would likely result in the destruction of Israel.

Obama said that he believes Israel should "pull back to 1967 borders" and that a Palestinian state should be created.

Both moves would spell doom for Israel, a vital ally in the region, and potentially cause the deaths of millions of people.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has already rejected Obama's plan, saying the 1967 borders are "militarily indefensible."

Israel is surrounded by hostile Muslim countries sworn to its destruction.

Only a few months ago, during a trip to Israel, Gov. Huckabee rejected the notion of a creating a Palestinian state out of territory Israel occupies, calling it "un-workable, un-reachable, and un-realistic."

On the subject of borders, Huckabee also stood by Israel, saying the Jewish people have "indiginous rights" to the land they occupy that go back "not just 60 years or 80 years, but 3,500 years."

Governor Huckabee, its not too late to change your mind.

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in reference to: Netanyahu Rejects Obama Call for Palestinian State Based on 1967 Borders - FoxNews.com (view on Google Sidewiki)

Why Mitt Romney Can't Win

Quite simply, Mitt Romney is a pandering, rudderless, political opportunist who has a long history of changing his views on core moral and ethical issues to suit the contituency he is trying to curry favor with at the moment.


Fortunately for America, Google is a-political. Check out the kind of things Google pulls under a simple search for "Mitt Romney." Nuff said.

Speaking Words of Wisdom...Huck-a-Bee...

Huckabee's Ready-Made Campaign

Here's a great article from Real Clear Politics that is a must-read for any Huckabee fan ... or foe for that matter.

Onward and upward,

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in reference to: RealClearPolitics - Mike Huckabee's Ready-Made Campaign (view on Google Sidewiki)

Romney Chairman quits. Can't deal with "ever-changing persona."

Mitt Romney's 2008 New Hampshire chairman, Bruce Keough, just declined an invitation to handle Romney's 2012 campaign saying he's "no longer sure what Romney stands for."

According to Keough, he could no longer handle Romney's "wishy-washy political identity and inability to stake out firm, consistent opinions."

Imagine how slimey do you have to be to be too slimey for a seasoned political operative.

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in reference to: Ex-Romney Campaign Chair: I'm Done With Mitt | Mother Jones (view on Google Sidewiki)

BREAKING: More Huckabee Signals of Run for President

According to Politico, Gov. Huckabee has announced he will speak at a Louisiana GOP event that will feature candidates for president.

"Huckabee has been sending increasing signals that he is leaning toward a run," Politico says.

Onward and upward,

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in reference to: Mike Huckabee to join candidates at GOP event in June - Maggie Haberman - POLITICO.com (view on Google Sidewiki)

No Huckabee, no debate. Romney bows out.

Back in February, I blogged that I didn't thing anyone serious was going to participate in any early GOP presidential debates until they knew what Huckabee was going to do. About Romney,specifically, I said I didn't think he would risk sharing the stage early on with the likes of the Godfather's Pizza CEO and the guy who yells "the rent's too damn high" only to have Huckabee throw his hat in the ring later.


Well, Romney bowed out of the first debate today saying, "the field is too unsettled and he's not an announced candidate."

As I said before, any debate without Huckabee at this stage of the game will be considered illigitimate.

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Huckabee Statement: "Welcome to hell, bin Laden."

The following is the full text of Mike Huckabee's statement on the killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. forces, taken from MikeHuckabee.com.


"It is unusual to celebrate a death, but today Americans and decent people the world over cheer the news that madman, murderer and terrorist Osama Bin Laden is dead. The leader of Al Qaeda--- responsible for the deaths of 3000 innocent citizens on September 11, 2001, and whose maniacal hate is responsible for the deaths of thousands of US servicemen and women was killed by U.S. military. President Obama confirmed the announcement late last night. DNA tests confirmed his death and his body is in the possession of the
U.S.

It has taken a long time for this monster to be brought to justice. Welcome to hell, bin Laden. Let us all hope that his demise will serve notice to Islamic radicals the world over that the United States will be relentless is tracking down and terminating those who would inflict terror, mayhem and death on any of our citizens."

A person I trust whispered to me today that a possible Huckabee/Barbour ticket may be in the works - if Mike Huckabee secures the GOP nomination. Huckabee, the only candidate capable of uniting the GOP, winning the nomination, and competing with Obama in the general election, would find his efforts greatly enhanced by the support of Haley Barbour, his "rolodex," and fundraising capability.


A few weeks ago, much news was made by rumored conversations between Huckabee and Barbour, and both men expressed praise for one another.

Barbour unexpectedly announced he would not seek the GOP nomination last week, clearling the way for Huckabee in the vital South.

Huckabee/Barbour? What do you think?

Onward and upward,

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NRA Hearts Huckabee

MIke Huckabee received the most enthusiastic response of any candidate or potential candidate at this weekend's National Rifle Association convention.

According to Politico, Huckabee said nothing about a potential 2012 run for president "but sounded more like someone seriously considering jumping into the race than [he has] in recent public appearances - covering a full plate of issues, from foreign policy to economic recovery."

One Huckabee supporter, as she left the arena that night was quoted saying, "There's no doubt he's running after that speech!"

Mike Huckabee has a long, uninterrupted history of defending gun rights. LaPierre, the CEO of the NRA, praised Huckabee as an avid hunter and a Governor who consistently signed laws to protect gun owners.

Social consertatives in the audience brought Huckabee some of the loudest cheers, according to Politico, and excited attendees who want desperately for him to run fpr president.

"Money is not everything in our life," said Jill Montgomery, a beauty salon owner from Pennsylvania. "People can co with a lot less money, but we can't do it without God and family."

Onward ad upward,

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in reference to: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/54017_Page2.html (view on Google Sidewiki)

NEWS: GOP Operative: "Huck is in."

John Ellis, writing for Business Insider, just published an article that has a tantalizing bit of info in it. The article notes rumors that ran rampant this week that Huckabee had decided not to run.

After writing about these rumors earlier this week, Ellis says he quickly heard from "a half dozen operatives and journalists who are well-wired into Republican party politics."

The "best-wired" among them, Ellis says, told him flatly "Huck is in."

Onward and upward,

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in reference to: Huckabee: likely 2012 GOP presidential candidate (view on Google Sidewiki)

Huckabee Sheds Glimmer of Light on Intentions

After a blogger erroneously reported in South Carolina that Mike Huckabee would not run for president, Huckabee's previous South Carolina campaign Chairman picked up the phone yesterday and called him for clarification.

Huckabee said: "...I'm asking folks to keep their powder dry because there may be something coming in the near future that may be worth keeping your powder dry for....I am weighing it (running) very heavily and I am considering it as seriously as I have ever been."

Huckabee ran for President in 2008 as a virtual unknown and shocked the nation by nearly taking the nomination - finishing second to John McCain.

Onward and upward,

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in reference to: Huckabee ‘asking folks to keep their powder dry,’ adviser says – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs (view on Google Sidewiki) Photo by Slate

Mitt Romney Has a "Willie Horton" Problem

It seems Governor Mitt Romney has a very disturbing "Willie Horton" problem he is trying to avoid talking about.


Daniel T. Tavares

In February 2006, complaining that the Judicial Nominating Commission (JNC) wasn’t forwarding enough applicants for his consideration, Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney said he wanted the JNC to focus solely on applicants’ educational and professional experience. “I reserve to myself the responsibility to evaluate judicial temperament and philosophy,” Romney wrote.


Under this structure, Gov. Romney appointed career prosecutor Kathe Tuttman to the bench. In the first half of 2007, Judge Tuttman heard the case of a convicted murderer named Daniel T. Tavares. Taveres, in prison for murdering his own mother by stabbing her 26 times, went before Judge Tuttman to request early release because, under Massachusetts law, he was eligible to do so after serving the “lower end” of his sentence.


Tuttman granted the request and ordered that a date be set for Tavares’ release. Three days before Taveres was to be released, on June 11, 2007, he was charged with assaulting two prison guards and ordered held on $100,000 bail by another Judge (Martha Brennan).

            “I reserve to myself the responsibility

to evaluate judicial temperament

and philosophy."

                                                             --Governor Mitt Romney


But Romney-appointed Judge Tuttman overturned her colleague’s decision, cancelled Taveres’ $100,000 bail and ordered him released on his own recognizance. Furthermore, despite the viciousness of his crime, his history of violent behavior in prison, the order of her colleague Judge Brennan that he be held, and the pending legal action on him for assaulting two prison guards, Judge Tuttman stated from the bench that she did not believe Taveres to be a flight risk. This was on July 16, 2007.


She was wrong, with devastating consequences.


Seven days later, on July 23, Taveres jumped bail and fled across the country to Graham, Washington.


On November 17, 2007 – just 4 months after Judge Kathe Tuttman, for whom Gov. Romney reserved to himself the responsibility to evaluate before appointing, ordered the release of Daniel T. Tavares – the convicted murderer walked up to his neighbor’s house in Graham, Washington and shot newly-weds Brian and Beverly Mauck to death.


It gets worse.


In December, 2007 two members of the board that approved Gov. Romney’s appointment of Judge Tuttman to the bench called for her removal, claiming that Gov. Romney had recommended her to them without telling them of her involvement as a prosecutor in a botched case that freed a child rapist.


The case involved a child rapist named Daniel Parra, who walked free after prosecutors headed by Kathe Tuttman missed deadlines in their failed bid to have him committed as a sexually dangerous person in 2005.


Gov. Romney, who changed the state’s judicial nominating process saying “I reserve to myself the responsibility to evaluate judicial temperament and philosophy,” nominated Tuttman to the bench just six months later.


Former Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey, who oversaw the judicial nominating council under Romney, called the botched child rapist case “very disturbing” and acknowledged that the connection to Tuttman was missed in the nomination process.


An incompetent prosecutor and unqualified judge, nominated by Romney, who “reserved to himself” responsibility for evaluating her, granted early release to a heavily tattooed white supremacist (Tavares) who had served just 16 years of a life sentence for butchering his mother. She did this while Tavares was charged with assaulting two prison guards, overriding the order of a colleague that he be held on $100,000 bail. She cancelled the $100,000 bail and ordered the release of Tavares on personal recognizance. Seven days later, Tavares jumped bail. Four months later, he murdered two newly-weds in cold blood.


Eric Fehrnstrom, a spokesman for Gov. Romney issued a statement saying the judge’s decision to release Tavares was “an inexplicable lapse in judgment and was inexcusable.” Worcester (MA) District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr. said Judge Tuttman erroneously released Tavares …“I’ve never seen $100,000 bail knocked down to (personal recognizance) before.”


Romney has so far failed to comment.


Source: http://biggovernment.com/dladams/2011/04/21/1988-redux-mitt-romneys-willie-horton/

South Carolina Gov. Beasley: "Barbour out helps Huckabee."

Former Gov. David Beasley of South Carolina, a strong supporter of Huckabee's in that critical "first in the South" primary state, says that the decision by Gov. Haley Barbour (MS) to bow out of the 2012 race for the GOP noimination "primarily, overwhelmingly, helps Huckabee."

Huckabee, who has consitently lead in virturally every poll for months - including South Carolina - is still considering whether or not he will enter the race.

According to Politico, "chatter in South Carolina GOP circles was louder on Wednesday surrounding Huckabee...".

Things are setting up nicely for Huckabee. He leads very strongly in Iowa, the very first primary state - and which he won in 2008. The next state is New Hampshire - which is much more liberal, and not a state Huckabee would be exptected to win (essentially a "skip"). Next would be South Carolina - noted for being the "first-in-the-South" primary state and a leading indicator of how the delegate-rich Southern bloc of states is likely to go.

Winning Iowa and South Carolina (2 of the first 3) would position Huckabee very strongly going in the rest of the primary states and would likely propel him to the nomination.

Onward and upward,

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in reference to: Haley Barbour bail out boosts Mike Huckabee, ex-S.C. Gov. David Beasley says - Maggie Haberman - POLITICO.com (view on Google Sidewiki)

BREAKING: Haley Barbour Will Not Seek GOP Nomination

Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi just announced he will not seek the GOP nomination for president in 2012. This leaves Mike Huckabee as the only southern Republican Governor still considering a race for the White House.

This is significant because Barbour would have been competing with Huckabee for many of the same donors and constituencies.

Onward and upward,

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in reference to: Mississippi Gov. Barbour Says He Won't Run For President : The Two-Way : NPR (view on Google Sidewiki)

Mike Huckabee and Glen Beck

The so-called "feud" between Mike Huckabee and Glen Beck is interesting. I am going to speculate about something here that has nothing to do with Mike Huckabee or his campaign.

This blog is a volunteer effort and always has been, so nothing that is published here should ever be construed as having coming from any official source.

That said, here is my speculation. I have relied upon a scientific principal known as "Occam's razor" for most of my adult life. Simply put, the Occam's razor can best be defined as "the simplest explanation is most likely the correct one."

So, what is the simplest explanation for Glen Beck's motivations in attacking Mike Huckabee?

Here are some facts:

1) Glen Beck has indicated he supports Mitt Romney for the GOP nomination, saying recently he believes Romney "could be the only guy who could win" against Obama.

2) Mitt Romney is a Mormon.

3) Glen Beck is a Mormon.

4) Mormonism is a very agressive proselytizing religion.

5) A Mormon president would be incredibly useful to the Mormon church's desire to proselytize globally.

6) Mike Huckabee is the front-runner - with polls showing he will beat Mitt Romney if he runs.

7) Mike Huckabee is incredibly popular among Christians - expecially Baptists.

8) The Southern Baptist Convention has identified Mormonism as a "cult."

9) If Mike Huckabe and Mitt Romney face off for the GOP nomination, it is likely the media will bring the major theological differences between Mormon and mainstream Christian faiths into the spotlight - even if neither candidate wants that.

10) Glen Beck has indicated that it is his hope that Mike Huckabee will "stay on the sidelines."

So, using Occam's razor, the most likley motivations behind Glenn Beck's attack on Mike Huckabee are a desire to promote Mormonism through the election of Mitt Romney; and the promotion of Mitt Romney by tearing down a stronger potential competitor who would (a) beat Mitt Romney, and (b) whose presence in the race would likely bring unwanted attention on Mormon theology in the process.

What do you think?

in reference to: Glenn Beck fires back in feud with Mike Huckabee - The Hill's Ballot Box (view on Google Sidewiki)

Ed Rollins: Huckabee "will go for it."

Here's a good article detailing the current standing of the 2012 GOP campaign for president, according to MSN: "Huckabee effortless assumption of the pole position has his frustrated competitors asking, "What the Huck? Is going to run or not?"

Interestingly, when asked, Huckabee's 2008 campaign manager Ed Rollins said "Personally, it's my sense that he'll go for it this time."
Onward and upward,

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in reference to:

""Governor Huckabee is considering a presidential race seriously," his 2008 campaign manager, Ed Rollins, told me. "He's receiving quite a bit of counsel and encouragement. He knows he has roughly a June 1 deadline to decide. Personally, it's my sense that he'll go for it this time.""
- Will Mike Huckabee Take the Presidential Plunge? | Story | BLTWY (view on Google Sidewiki)

Huckabee Still Leads Iowa. Trump Fading.

After getting a quick blip of attention, Donald Trump is fading fast in Iowa. Iowans are well known for being politically astute and serious about who they throw their support to. Mike Huckabee is still far and away their favorite with 27%. Mitt Romney trails far behind in 2nd place with just 16% (despite the fact he has officially become a candidate while Huckabee still has not). Trump has faded to 14%

Public Policy Polling, who conducted the survey, is not surprised by Trump's fall. "As Trump's views on a wide range of issues become better known to GOP primary voters...we expect...his candidacy will become, in effect, moot."

Onward and upward,

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in reference to: Iowa Poll: Huckabee leads, Trump fades (view on Google Sidewiki)

Politically Illustrated: Huckabee Dominates in Latest Polls

Politically illustrated has a nice article (and a fun cartoon) about Gov. Huckabee's continued domination of all other candidates in all the polls. Rumors this week indicated that Huckabee may be leaning closer to pullingthe trigger on a presidential run.

We need you, Governor.

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in reference to: Mike Huckabee Dominates Republican Candidates in Latest Polls | Politically Illustrated (view on Google Sidewiki)