Is Mike Huckabee the GOP's 2012 Sleeper Candidate? (Stop pushing Gomer on us)

The Atlantic ^ | December 7, 2010 | Ray Gustini

[2ndDivisionVet]

This is the third or fourth article in the last few days along these lines.

[Grunthor]

I might vote for Huck...if he were the nominee, against Obama. No way in hades I vote for him in the primary.

[Responsibility2nd]

And this is about the 5th or 6th time you’ve embarrasedd your ignorant self by swallowing the hype the liberals want to push on us conservatives.

Give it a rest, bud.

[Patrsup]

He is not the guy for the GOP if they want my vote - I’m not holding my nose again.

[Eyes Unclouded]

Anything to split up the vote. They know this guy is a charmer and knows how to work a crowd. They would love him to play spoiler to get a more moderate GOP nominee.

[Mr. Lucky]

I would say more of a yawner than a sleeper.

[GOPJ]

Same here... then again, I’d vote for my dog against Obama...

[Diogenesis]

Mike Huckabee can play guitar and
field dress a squirrel. But is that enough?

Click here for HARRY info

[Diogenesis]

Mike Huckabee: “If we want to keep our nation's secrets 'SECRET,'
store them where President Obama stores his college transcripts and birth certificate." ?

[Vigilanteman]

This is the RINO which finished third behind McCain and Romney.

He's as likely to play the same Judas Goat role for Mitt as he did for Juan. He's less likely to be successful given the availability of far more attractive alternatives.

[farmguy]

What’s your dog’s name, I’ll write it in if huckelberry is the nominee.

[PhilCollins]

Since 1900, only one Republican became president by defeating an incumbent. That was Ronald Reagan. Here are four traits that might have helped his campaign, in 1980:
1. He was conservative.
2. He was a governor.
3. He sought the republican presidential nomination, in a previous election.
4. He was from the West.

These Republicans, who might run for president, in 2012, have at least three of those four traits: ex-Gov. Sarah Palin, ex-Gov. Mike Huckabee, ex-Gov. Mitt Romney, and ex-Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne. I hope that all of them will run, along with ex-VP Dick Cheney, Rep. Ron Paul, and Gov. Haley Barbour.

I hope that four of those seven will continue campaigning until the convention. If that happens, no one will receive the nomination before the convention, causing the convention to be suspenseful and exciting. More people will watch and hear the great republican ideas.

[bmwcyle]

The left has found their new John McCain. Maybe Norman Bates will have a new hero.

[flowerplough]

No.

[pallis]

I wish he would take a long nap, and forget about running for president, but the Huckster has the itch, and he is going to scratch it until it bleeds.

[t-dude]

They are pushing him hard, as his constituency of evangelicals and home schoolers will otherwise probably go for Sarah...and they are hoping he will split enough off to knock her out...making room for Romney.

Not going to happen, although he still has a devoted following of huckahillbillies here in Iowa.

[PhilCollins]

Huckabee was second. He had 278 delegates, and Romney had 271.

[t-dude]

Sad so many were fooled by him the first time.

[2ndDivisionVet]

"And this is about the 5th or 6th time you’ve embarrasedd your ignorant self by swallowing the hype the liberals want to push on us conservatives. Give it a rest, bud."

Was that comment addressed to me?

[TLI]

Wait for it, this is the prep for George Stephanopoulos to flash his teeth and tell us all how great hucky is doing and what a great night hucky is having and he will quote an ABC "poll" that proves how much "conservatives" want hucky to be nominated.

Sometime in the late fall, 2011 I would think.

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