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Sarah Palin and Fred Thompson had the guts to do what Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and the entire Republican Party would not do. One month ago, Thompson became the first prominent national Republican to endorse Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman in the New York District 23 Congressional race. Palin made an even bigger impact by endorsing Hoffman a week and a half ago. In doing so, Palin lived up to her penchant for going against the mainstream and taking on powerbrokers inside her own party.

Poll Shows Mike Huckabee Leading 2012 GOP Prez Field Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A new Rasmussen poll released today is a departure from previous polls showing a close three-way race for the Republican nomination to challenge pro-abortion President Barack Obama in 2012. The survey shows pro-life former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee with a clear lead. http://www.LifeNews.com/nat5573.html

During my life, I have learned God answers prayers in a number of ways. He can either say yes, no, not now or not your way. The Lord answered my prayers and those of many others regarding IFI's Fall Banquet. The event was an overwhelming success and I give praise to the Lord and thanks to those who supported IFI by attending the fundraiser featuring Governor Mike Huckabee last Tuesday in Rosemont, Illinois. Well over 800 good folks attended the dinner, including...

Here is a brief video clip of Mike Huckabee showing a "Tonight Show" spoof of Sesame Street's "Big Bird" scolding First Lady Michelle Obama during a visit she made to the set. "The Tonight Show" changed some of the dialogue to have Big Bird hammering Michelle Obama for coming to push her husband's "socialist health care agenda." . . . (VIDEO)

Tonight (September 26th), Mike Huckabee interviewed Chuck and Gena Norris about their concerns regarding health care reform. This video clip explains their disappointments. VIDEO: Mike Huckabee & Chuck Norris on ObamaCare

Here is a video report from the Values Voters Summit today, where Gov. Mike Huckabee was the winner in the 2012 Presidential Straw Poll. Mike Huckabee cruised to an easy victory in a presidential straw poll taken among attendees at a social conservative conference, beating a group of four other Republican contenders by an over two-to-one margin.Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor and a 2008 presidential candidate, won with just over 28 percent of the 597 votes cast by attendees at the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was the runner-up, narrowly edging out Minnesota Gov....

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee on Saturday won a 2012 presidential preference straw poll of social and religious conservative activists from 49 states gathered in Washington, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said at an afternoon press briefing at the Omni Shoreham Hotel. It was sweet revenge for Mr. Huckabee, who narrowly lost a similar poll in 2007 to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Only in-person voting was permitted in this vote -- Mr. Romney had won with combined Internet and in-person voting. On Saturday Mr. Huckabee took 28.48 percent of the vote, while Mr. Romney was in a four-way...

A day after former Baptist minister and likely presidential rival Mike Huckabee offered a withering critique of Mitt Romney's record, the former Massachusetts governor made his pitch to the same group of religious conservatives. Romney appealed to attendees at the Values Voter Summit in Washington on Saturday, using a speech that drew heavily from his address to social conservatives at the same hotel earlier this year. "Putting such a spirit-crushing, back-breaking debt burden on our children is unworthy of our national character," he said. "That is why I believe that this spending and borrowing is not just economically irresponsible, it...

IFI Media Watch A little more than a year ago, most Americans would have thought the name "Huckabee" was a punch line to a joke. That's not the case any longer. Today, the former Arkansas Governor, Mike Huckabee, is one of the most popular personalities on television and radio. Huckabee, who will be the featured speaker at IFI's "Family, Faith and Freedom Banquet" www.illinoisfamily.org/huckabee, nearly pulled off the biggest political upset in our nation's history when he seemed to come out of nowhere with his second place finish in the Republican Party's presidential primary in 2008. In a time when...

I miss the old Mike Huckabee. No, not the circa-1998 porker who could have given John Madden a run for his money in a turducken eating contest; I mean the Mike Huckabee of 2007—the charming, warm-hearted country preacher who, it seemed, genuinely wanted to give a good account of his religion and his political ideology. This was the Huckabee who, rather than simply catering to anti-abortion conservatives with fiery rhetoric, challenged those who call themselves pro-life to think about the implications of that label. “I believe that life begins at conception,” he told Time in March ’07, “but I don’t...

  For the 5th straight month, Public Policy Polling finds Mike Huckabee the strongest 2012 contender against Barack Obama (click here for poll). 1. Barack Obama 47% Mike Huckabee 44% 2. Barack Obama 47% Mitt Romney 40% 3. Barack Obama 49% Newt Gingrich 41% 4. Barack Obama 52% Sarah Palin 38% Favorability ratings: a. Obama 52%/42% b. Huckabee 45%/28% c. Gingrich 33%/42% d. Palin 40%/49% e. Romney 37%/34% Notes: Huckabee receives positive favorability ratings in every income group, while Palin receives negative ratings in every income group, except those making less than 25K/year. Interestingly, that same income group gives Romney...

Here is video of Gov. Mike Huckabee on his show saying that there are only around 5 million uninsured people in the United States that need help with Health Care Coverage. He arrives at that number by saying 12-13 million of the supposed 47 million uninsured that the Democrats speak of are actually illegal aliens in the country. The others are people who simply choose not to have health insurance because they want to use their money in other ways, or are people who qualify for existing government help but just have not filled out the paperwork to get that...

Here is video of former Gov. Mike Huckabee explaining why he personally believes Government Health Care is a bad idea. Essentially, Huckabee opposes ObamaCare because he said he "knows how government works." He went on to say that government does not have to do anything efficiently or effectively, because it can simply tax more, print more money, or borrow money to do as it pleases. With Congress, he said you have "537 cooks wanting to add their own seasoning" to the stew. There is no way to trust that government would do health care better or at a lower cost...

I've been hearing that some groups of people are not welcome at Free Republic anymore, but I didn't believe what I was hearing because that seems like the complete opposite of "Free". I've heard that supporters of Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Ron Paul, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, and more are no longer welcome to post at this site. This site is about uniting people together against the liberal onslaught that is ruining our country and we could use all the help we can get right? Please correct me so I can correct others who have told me that this is...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- In an interview with Jon Stewart of the "Daily Show" on Comedy Central last week, former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee blasted the false notion that common ground exists in the abortion debate. The notion that there is common ground on killing children and hurting women has been repeatedly taken to task by pro-life advocates. Huckabee said that abortion advocates don't want to give an inch in the abortion debate by accepting even modest limits on abortion such as parental notification, which would allow parents to know when their daughters are considering the life-altering decision. Stewart talked...

WASHINGTON (CNN) – Florida Gov. Charlie Crist has rolled out a succession of endorsements from national Republicans since announcing his entrance into the 2010 Senate race. Now his Republican primary rival, former Florida House speaker Marco Rubio, has a national endorsement of his own from a conservative heavyweight: Mike Huckabee. The former Arkansas governor will formally endorse Rubio in about two weeks, according to a Florida Republican familiar with the plans. The details of where the endorsement will take place have not been decided.

Uh oh -- looks like the 2012 GOP primary, or at least a preview of it, is getting underway. In a fresh round of GOP infighting over the soul of the battered party, Mike Huckabee just took a shot at a host of potential primary rivals, disparaging Eric Cantor's new group to revive the GOP, the National Council for a New America, and the high-profile Republicans that make up the group's "panel of experts." The experts Huckabee was referring to include Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, and Bobby Jindal, all of whom are being talked about for 2012. Huckabee's broadside came...

There are a handful of times in life where you get to experience something that has the feeling of brushing the presence of greatness. In my life at various times that has been something I didn't always realize up front. But having returned from a day and a half and a sum total of nine events over that period of time with one person in particular I have to tell you... I think I did this weekend. In December of 2006 I wrote a column in which I was the first pundit in America to predict that Barack Obama would...

Former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee led a chapel service this morning at Palm Beach Atlantic University, softly delivering his message of Christian activism between one-liners about being mistaken for White House competitor Mitt Romney and his fondness for the band Led Zeppelin. Huckabee, who released his latest book, "Do the Right Thing: Inside the Movement That's Bringing Common Sense Back to America," in the fall, was part of the Christian university's Annual Ethics & Character Lecture Series. As part of the series, Huckabee, 53, spoke Tuesday evening during a $200-a-plate fund raiser for PBA at The Breakers in Palm...

Jefferson City, MO (LifeNews.com) -- Former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee compared abortion to slavery during a speaking engagement at a recent pro-life event. However, his comments are drawing criticism from a leader of the NAACP, the nation's largest civil rights group.During a Monday speech for the Missouri-based Vitae Caring Foundation, which creates and sponsors pro-life television advertisements across the country, Huckabee made the remarks.Huckabee said that, when the United States abolished slavery, it got rid of the concept that one person had the powerful life and death decision over another. he said such a decision was wrong when...

In his book, Do the Right Thing, Mike Huckabee talked about the concepts of vertical and horizontal politics. Horizontal politics is when solutions to policy are figured out based on ideology. In other words, whatever is the issue, the individual tries to figure out how their ideology should deal with the issue. Vertical politics is when someone just tries to figure out what the solution is and doesn't worry about how that applies to ideology. Huckabee made the point that most voters want people that solve problems. They aren't ideological and so they aren't as impressed with ideological solutions. Explain...

Here is video from Gov. Mike Huckabee's speech today at CPAC, where he defended the Social Conservatives in the Republican Party against attacks that they are to blame for recent election losses. Huckabee makes a strong case that Social Conservatives are the heart of the GOP, and are the most reliable Republican voters. He urges reconciliation between the two wings of the Conservative Movement - Fiscal Conservatives, and Social Conservatives - in order to make the movement "fly" once again. . . . . (Watch Video)

Former GOP presidential candidate Gov. Mike Huckabee in an exclusive Newsmax interview says President Obama’s early job performance is “cause for alarm,” and warns his penchant for talking down the economy is “the worst possible direction he could take.” Obama’s dark portrayal of the U.S. economy -- apparently intended to lower the high expectations stoked by his rhetoric during the campaign -- is on the verge of becoming a “self-fulfilling prophecy,” Huckabee adds. The former Arkansas governor’s criticism followed a week that saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a six-year low. The S & P 500, the index that...

The Republican Party paid a steep price for race-baiting in the presidential campaign. Remember the ferocious backlash against the California Republican group that produced a racist newsletter depicting Barack Obama on a food stamp, surrounded by images of fried chicken and watermelon? Then there were those two congressmen who were rightly excoriated for condemning Mr. Obama’s candidacy in the language of the Jim Crow South — one describing him as a “boy” and the other as “uppity.” We thought after all that — and, oh yes, losing the election — everyone in the Republican Party leadership would have figured out...

If 2002 was Mormonism's debutante ball, 2008 may go down as its first semester of college. The Utah-based church made new friends, endured back-stabbing from would-be friends, joined some clubs, got a taste of fame and had a few wrenching exams. From the possibility of a Mormon in the White House to a stream of Latter-day Saints on reality television, from being attacked as belonging to a cult (or mistaken for a polygamous sect in Texas) to participating in California's bitter battle for traditional marriage, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints would see their faith in...

Former presidential candidate and Christian minister Gov. Mike Huckabee is a pretty busy guy these days. Huck's on a 56-city book tour and on Monday will be signing his new book Do the Right Thing at the Colonial Drive Barnes & Noble in Orlando from 12 to 1 p.m. But before then, on Sunday he'll be spending some time with us on my radio program for a touch and go interview between the book covers at 3 p.m. ET - get there by clicking this Link.Huckabee hosted his own TV show on Fox News Channel Saturday night from a BooksAMillion...

He’s not saying it critically, mind you. Since when has Huck ever been critical of a rival, overtly or otherwise? Huckabee had some interesting observations about Sarah Palin, a potential 2012 opponent, suggesting that she didn’t earn her spurs and was more appealing to the base of the party because she hadn’t been scrutinized in the primary. “What John McCain did for her was to give her the capacity to sort of leapfrog over the process and get right to the center stage,” he said of the GOP’s vice presidential nominee. Unlike those, he added, who had competed in the...

Once (and future?) presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is out with his third book in as many years, Do the Right Thing, a searing picture of a day on a Brooklyn city block a memoir of his unlikely, underfunded, and proudly socially conservative bid. A big chunk of the book is dedicated to settling some scores between Huck and the economic conservatives and libertarians who considered (and still consider) him unacceptable. The real threat to the Republican Party is something we saw a lot of this past election cycle: libertarianism masked as conservatism. And it threatens to not only split the...

TOKYO (AFP) - Former US presidential contender Mike Huckabee urged his fellow Republicans on Wednesday not to denigrate Democrat Barack Obama, saying they should celebrate the historic moment of a black candidate. "Republicans will make a fundamental if not fatal mistake if they seek to win the election by demonising Barack Obama," Huckabee told a news conference on a visit to Tokyo. The former Arkansas governor said that, having grown up in the segregated South, he never thought he would see an African-American win the nomination of a major party for the US presidency. "I do not want to have...

Mike Huckabee performed the Heimlich Maneuver successfully on a fellow politician Saturday in North Carolina. ...

A T-R-I reader says a “former Republican candidate for the presidency in 2008 is shopping a radio commentary/talk show to all the networks, and it’s not his first job in radio.” Sounds like the Tennessee talker himself, Fred Thompson, doesn’t it? But no – it’s former Arkansas Governor, minister and onetime teenage radio host Mike Huckabee. His witty and self-deprecating persona was a hit with a lot of media types during the campaign and you’d think he could be exploring all kinds of options (including the VP slot with McCain, without seeming to want it). But he’s shaking hands and...

Early on January 22, I posted the following to Free Republic: "In my opinion someone definitely needs to get word to Governor Huckabee that his unholy alliance with Senator McCain isn’t ultimately going to work for anyone, except possibly their Democrat opponents."http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1957488/posts?page=1#25 (post #25) On April 25, this was the featured Huckabee quote at Google News: "Sometimes I got accused of being in collusion with him during the course of the campaign — that we were somehow forming some unholy alliance."http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/5731969.html (fourth paragraph) Did Governor Huckabee get word about the "unholy alliance" or was that just a coincidence?

"Me? I'm just hangin' out, listening for McCain's phone call and waiting for reporters..." Mike "The Huckster" Huckabee, is at the top of the short list of John McCain's vice presidential candidates. At least according to a top McCain fundraiser. Economic conservatives are likely to oppose the choice of Huckabee as McCain’s vice presidential candidate, given the populist tone of his campaign and his tax record as governor of Arkansas. But in his “Capital Commerce” column for U.S. News & World Report, James Pethokoukis points to the fundraiser’s disclosure and cites several factors that could make Huckabee a strong asset...

Commentary by Daniel T. Zanoza, Executive Director, RFFM.org Houston, we have a problem! Or perhaps I should say, Republicans have a problem. Even though GOP crybabies--including Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity--now seem to be rallying around the candidacy of Sen. John McCain, the message has yet to filter down to the Party's base. Though McCain is the GOP's presumptive presidential nominee, in Pennsylvania Rep. Ron Paul finished second with over 15% of the Republican votes cast. Gov. Mike Huckabee snatched up nearly 12% of those who voted on the GOP's side of the ballot. Both men tallied a...

Some Republicans groaned at Gov. Rick Perry's announcement that he plans to seek another term in 2010, but Mayor Bill White's camp reacted with glee. White has made no effort to hide the fact that he is looking to run for governor after being term-limited out of the mayor's office next year. And Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, the biggest vote-getter in Texas history, has been more than hinting that she plans to "come home" to run for the same office. She outlined to Texas Monthly last November a plan to resign the Senate in 2009 to make the race, while...

Mike Huckabee, still one of many names being floated as John McCain’s vice presidential nominee, has started up his own political action committee, Huck PAC. In his kick-off blog on his Web site, the former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate writes that he’s launching the PAC to promote candidates who “hold firm” to the principles of “tax reform, a strong national defense, real border security, life, the family, less government and individual liberty.” Aside from that, Huckabee has high goals for upending the power balance in Washington. “Huck PAC is committed to helping Republicans regain control of the House...

GOP Vice-President Slot Still Open, But Is Huckabee Getting Serious Cconsideration? RFFM.org Commentary by Daniel T. Zanoza Yes, I know. Supposedly there are no bosses in the Republican Party any longer. But even though the smoke-filled back room may be a thing of the past, there is an elitist faction of the GOP who makes decisions for all who believe in the Republican brand. Well, they try to make decisions. But as an institution starts to crumble, power brokers have less and less command over what goes on. Such was evidenced during the past presidential primary season. I believe Party...

In my first race, I was an unknown candidate running for the United States Senate against a three-term incumbent. Most political figures believed I couldn't win so did nothing to help. There was a major exception: Charlton Heston. When others didn't have time for me, he did. I didn't win that first race, but his encouragement is something I'll never forget. Six years later, I was an incumbent governor running for reelection and Charlton Heston came to two small communities in South Arkansas to do campaign events. The events were stunningly successful, bringing record crowds to these communities who were...

The story of Jesus' death, burial and resurrection has deep meaning to Christians for a variety of reasons. First and foremost, it is the defining moment of the Christian faith. But for the resurrection, Christianity would be nothing more than a legend, not unlike the stories from Greek or Roman mythology. As the Apostle Paul notes in I Corinthians 15:17-18, "And if Christ be not raised, your faith is in vain; ye are yet in your sins. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished." Indeed, our very hope of eternal life depends upon the resurrection of...

For those who care about the truth (8 minutes).

An assist from an unexpected quarter: "[Y]ou can't hold the candidate responsible for everything that people around him may say or do," Huckabee says. "It's interesting to me that there are some people on the left who are having to be very uncomfortable with what ... Wright said, when they all were all over a Jerry Falwell, or anyone on the right who said things that they found very awkward and uncomfortable, years ago. Many times those were statements lifted out of the context of a larger sermon. Sermons, after all, are rarely written word for word by pastors like...

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Former Arkansas Governor and 2008 Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee will be a guest on CNN’s “Larry King Live” at 9:00 p.m. ET tonight to discuss his recent presidential campaign and other topics.

How does “The Mike Huckabee Show” sound? As Mr. Huckabee’s campaign plotted a concession speech on Tuesday, some analysts suggested that viewers would see the longshot Republican presidential candidate on television again very soon. On the MSNBC program “Morning Joe,” the Republican strategist Mike Murphy predicted Mr. Huckabee would “suspend his campaign, hire excellent agents, and begin negotiations for a cable TV talk show, all within the next 10 days.” “We’ve got a chair here he could fill,” the co-host Mika Brzezinski remarked. Later in the day on MSNBC, the anchor Contessa Brewer joked that the jovial Mr. Huckabee could...

Post #2 links to a 75-minute video of the September debate.

IRVING, Texas — Mike Huckabee bowed to reality Tuesday and out of the Republican presidential race. “We kept the faith,” he told his end-of-the-road rally Tuesday after John McCain clinched the nomination. “I’d rather lose an election than lose the principles that got me into politics in the first place.” The genial conservative won the leadoff Iowa caucuses, making him a sudden but short-lived sensation, and then seven other states: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee, West Virginia, Louisiana and Kansas. Meantime, John McCain piled up big victories on his way to winning the prize on Tuesday night. The writing was on...

This video of Governor Huckabee's concession speech is about fifteen minutes long. His wife cries, and he almost does too.

UPDATE 8:36: Ron Paul has been re-elected to Congress in the Fourteenth District of Texas. Campaign manager Mark Elam: "Chris Peden is toast. It's just a question of how big the margin is." The campaign is looking at a result in line with its final internal polls, with about 70 percent of the vote going to Paul. With about 8,400 votes in, Paul is leading Peden 72-28. UPDATE 8:53: These are early votes being reported right now, but around 40 to 50 percent of votes were cast in early voting and the Paul campaign doesn't expect the election day results...

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On January 16, 2008 Governor Huckabee signed the Numbers USA: No Amnesty Pledge. To learn more click here. Governor Huckabee believes: Securing our borders must be our top priority and has reached the level of a national emergency. I support the $3 billion the Senate has voted for border security. This money will train and deploy 23,000 more agents, add four drone planes, build 700 miles of fence and 300 miles of vehicle barriers, and put up 105 radar and camera towers. This money will turn "catch and release" into "catch and detain" of those entering illegally, and crack down...