Posted on 11/22/2011 10:55:40 AM PST by iowamark
Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee gave his thoughts on the 2012 Republican presidential candidates Sunday in an interview with WABC’s Aaron Klein. As the candidates continue to trade rankings in the national polls, Huckabee, who won the Iowa caucuses in his own election bid in 2008, spoke of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s chances of winning the primary. The former Republican presidential candidate urged conservative Republicans to support Romney because he believes the former Massachusetts Gov. has the best chance of defeating Barack Obama in 2012.
“Mitt Romney may not be their first choice, but Mitt Romney every day of the week and twice on Sunday is going to be a much more effective president for issues that they care about than Barack Obama,” Huckabee told Klein. “I think sometimes there is this anxiety within the Republican Party of who is the perfect candidate. The answer is there isn’t one,” the former Arkansas governor added.
Romney came in second behind Huckabee in the 2008 Iowa caucuses, largely because of Huckabee’s popularity among social conservatives in the state. A Bloomberg poll of likely Iowa voters last week showed a four way tie between Romney, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul. Huckabee’s popularity in Iowa could work in Romney’s favor as the countdown to the Iowa caucuses begins.
The former Arkansas governor urged Tea Party Republicans to throw their support behind Romney. “I think Republicans and conservatives and the Tea Party need to get behind him and say, ‘You may not be our first choice, but between you and Obama, I’ll vote 40 times to get you elected,” Huckabee said.
HEY! Huck-a-RINO! Yeah, YOU! The reason that there is a TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY Party is because of spineless RINOs like you!
Go-along-to-get-along no longer works, Hucky.
Obama or Obama-lite will not lead us out of the VALLEY OF DEBT. Deal with it, because it is called REALITY!
What, are the primaries over already and nobody told me?
I’ve now lost all respect for Mike Huckabee.
I have NEVER seen Huckabee to be anything other than a self serving two-faced lying phony Reverend RINO POS.
Is Huckabee now a Mormon? Can you be a Baptist and a Mormon at the same time?
How much of a bonus did Fox give Huckabee for this support of Romney?
THANK GOD this poor excuse for a man, a phoney little fat man, never made it to our White House.
So why didn’t Huck say this on Fox?
I’ve never had any.
The Huckster supports a huckster?
I’m SHOCKED!!
Nope. Won’t support that character.
GMTA!!
Apparently, you and I still think on the same wavelength.
GMTA!
Yea, somebody has got to explain this love affair with Huckabee and some “conservatives” to me. A limited federal government is the only way out of the mess we’re in. It seems to me Huckabee merely wants to redirect the power of the federal government as opposed to removing the power of the government in the first place.
It bears repeating.
Huck you suck.
Sorry, Mike. It will be Herman Cain for me until he wins, or drops out.
Then others, mmore conservative than Mitt.
If Romney should win the nomination despite my support for all the more conservative candidates in front of him, I will vote for him over Obama...but that’s the best I will give.
Huckleberry Hound doggie can stick it where the moon don’t shine.
another RINO dooooooosh
Huckaphonee
Not surprised.
Huckabee was on Fox&Friends Saturday, saying that Romney was not being ignored by the media from attacks, but that Romney ‘had been fully vetted in 2008’.
That sounded much like Huckabee was going to support Romney.
[I’m sure Romney appreciates that, considering that Huckabee and his backdoor deals with McCain were what kept Romney from the nomination in 2008.]
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