Last I heard, Hunter endorsed Huckabee:
“I got to know Governor Huckabee well on the campaign trail,” said Hunter. “Of the remaining candidates I feel that he is strongly committed to strengthening national defense, constructing the border fence and meeting the challenge of China’s emergence as a military superpower that is taking large portions of America‚s industrial base.”
“Along with these issues of national security, border enforcement and protecting the U.S. industrial base, I see another quality of Mike Huckabee’s candidacy that compels my endorsement. Mike Huckabee is a man of outstanding character and integrity. I saw that character over the last year of campaigning and was greatly impressed. The other Republican candidates have many strengths and I wish them all well. My personal choice is Mike Huckabee,” Hunter concluded.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1958386/posts
Yeah, I was just reminded. A doctor's visit & errands between threads can make a guy forgetful.
Still, I find it curious he comes out with this shortly after Fred drops out. There's probably nothing to it but, well, it's curious. I just thought he perhaps may have waited to see whether Fred would stay in..or not.
well, if all of the pro abortion stuff is accurate about Romney, my vote will be going to Huckabee. He did raise some taxes but also had a large income tax cut. Even Reagan raised some taxes as governor. And the fairtax would be so great as a return to constitutional taxation. The founders never envisioned a tax on people’s paychecks. I love Huckabees courage to say that he would go directly to the people to get the fairtax passed. Reagan did that to get his tax cut package through congress.
But is Mike Huckabee someone Christian conservatives should be supporting? Not everyone thinks so.
Randy Minton, chairman of the Arkansas chapter of Phyllis Schlafly’s national Eagle Forum, said, “We called him a pro-life, pro-gun liberal, when I was in the state legislature and he was governor.”
Phyllis Schlafly herself was even more direct. The President and Founder of Eagle Forum said this about Governor Huckabee: “He destroyed the conservative movement in Arkansas, and left the Republican Party a shambles.”
She went on to say, “Yet some of the same evangelicals who sold us on George W. Bush as a ‘compassionate conservative’ are now trying to sell us on Mike Huckabee.”