Category Archives: Mike Huckabee

Straw Poll is Anyone’s Game

Read Complete Article at the desmoinesregister.com  Toss out a lot of the normal rules when sizing up the potential impact of this year’s Ames straw poll. Curveballs have reshaped typical expectations: the Republican presidential race’s late start, unrest within the party, the national front-runner sitting it out, and a large bloc of undecided Iowa voters who [...]

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Pledging Allegiance In Iowa

“Bob” Vander Plaats (above) of The FAMiLY LEADER, has issued a candidate pledge titled “The Marriage Vow – A Declaration of Dependence upon Marriage and Family.”  Plaats  is asking all presidential candidates to sign a pledge regarding their personal convictions on traditional marriage.  So far, only Michele Bachmann, and Rick Santorum have signed on. In 2008, [...]

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Is Huckabee Becoming The Anti-Romney Godfather?

Although Mike Huckabee has declined to enter the race for the 2012 Republican Primary Nomination, he is now starting to emerge as a kind of ‘power-broker’ to some of the candidates. The logic of Huckabee isn’t too difficult to notice, it’s clearly based on the “Any Enemy Of My Enemy Is My Friend” concept.  There [...]

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The Reinventing of Governor Rick Perry

The Reinventing of Governor Rick Perry ‘How the American Family Association can play the Anti-Mormon card, while grooming Perry into their own candidate for 2012′. By Craig Edwards Reputed Republican Presidential candidate – Texas Governor Rick Perry, recently gathered considerable criticism for his upcoming prayer event titled ‘The Response’. The Houston event is billed as [...]

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Contrary to Media Reports, GOP has Strong Field

Matt Lowery Townhall.com This past week, I’ve seen or read plenty of news analyses suggesting that the Republicans have a weak field of presidential hopefuls for 2012. Not so. I believe that many of the potential candidates who might seek the GOP nomination have strategically strong paths to the White House, assuming that President Obama [...]

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Mitt Romney: Proud of Massachusetts Health Care Law

By MAGGIE HABERMAN POLITICO Mitt Romney rejected Mike Huckabee’s call for him to admit that the “RomneyCare” health care program failed, instead saying he’s “proud” of “getting everyone covered” when he was governor of Massachusetts. “Mitt Romney is proud of what he accomplished for Massachusetts in getting everyone covered,” Romney’s spokesman, Eric Fehrnstrom, told the [...]

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So much for Sarah Palin as a serious ’12 contender

There was a time last summer and fall, when Tea Party ideologues like Sharron Angle, Christine O’Donnell and Joe Miller were winning key Republican Senate primaries, that it seemed quite possible — maybe even inevitable — that the Republican Party would nominate Sarah Palin for president in 2012. Here were Republican primary voters shedding all [...]

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Romney to RJC and Las Vegas

  By KASIE HUNT Mitt Romney will speak at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s winter meeting in Las Vegas. Romney, who visited Israel earlier this year, will join John Thune and House Minority Leader Eric Cantor at the conference, according to an e-mail sent to RJC members. Continue Reading The event runs March 31-April 3. Thune [...]

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33% of GOP Voters Hope Palin Isn’t 2012 Nominee

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin remains a top favorite of Republican voters, but she’s also the front-runner they least want to see get the GOP’s 2012 presidential nomination. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 81% of Likely GOP Primary Voters have a favorable opinion of Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts and [...]

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Huckabee Leads in Iowa, Romney Up in New Hampshire

TAEGAN GODDARD’S POLITICAL WIRE GOP political consulting firm Strategic National commissioned two polls of the Republican presidential race in Iowa and New Hampshire. Iowa: Mike Huckabee at 28%, Mitt Romney at 19%, Sarah Palin at 12%, Newt Gingrich at 12%, Tim Pawlenty at 4% and Michele Bachmann at 4%. New Hampshire: Mitt Romney at 34%, [...]

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