Results 1 to 3 of 3

Thread Information

Users Browsing this Thread

There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)

  1. #1
    Senior Member JohnDoe2's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2008
    Location
    PARADISE (San Diego)
    Posts
    99,040

    Huckabee announces 2016 White House bid

    Huckabee announces 2016 White House bid

    Published May 05, 2015 FoxNews.com



    NOW PLAYINGPresidential Contenders: Gov. Mike Huckabee

    Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee announced Tuesday he is running for president, entering an already-crowded Republican field in his second campaign for the White House.

    “I am a candidate for president of the United States of America," said Huckabee during an event in his hometown of Hope, Ark.


    Huckabee, a former Baptist minister, ran for president in 2008, winning eight states including the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses before running out of money and exiting the race.


    The 59-year-old Huckabee has a strong following among the party’s evangelical Christian base but this time will face stiff competition for that vote from such primary candidates as Dr. Ben Carson and Sen. Ted Cruz, of Texas.


    Huckabee, who left his job as a Fox News host earlier this year in preparation for a potential 2016 run, was Arkansas governor from 1996 to 2007, serving after Bill Clinton, who also is from Hope. And he was the state’s lieutenant governor from 1993 to 1996.


    He already is trying to position himself as the GOP candidate best equipped to defeat Hillary Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner.


    In a recent campaign video, Huckabee argued that in his more than 10 years as governor, he took on Democrats in "Bill Clinton's Arkansas" after then-candidate Bill Clinton won election to the White House in 1992.

    "Every day in my life in politics was a fight," Huckabee says in the video, released as a preview of his Tuesday announcement. "But any drunken redneck can walk into a bar and start a fight. A leader only starts a fight he's prepared to finish."


    The field of confirmed and potential GOP presidential candidates includes more than a dozen people.


    The most recent average of polling by nonpartisan RealClearPolitics.com shows former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush leading the GOP filed with 15 percent of the early vote, followed by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, Paul, Cruz, and then Huckabee at 8 percent.


    Neither Bush nor Walker have decided whether they will officially run.


    Huckabee is the third Republican this week to announce a 2016 White House bid, following Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, and former Hewlett-Packard chief executive Carly Fiorina on Monday.

    They join Cruz; Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.; and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.


    Campaign aides say Huckabee’s path to winning the party nomination this time will be to appeal to working-class cultural conservatives, pitching their candidate as an economic populist and foreign affairs hawk who holds deeply conservative views on social issues such as abortion and gay marriage.


    Huckabee advocates a national consumption tax, which is similar to a sales tax, to replace the existing federal taxes on personal income and payrolls. He rejects calls for a minimum wage hike, saying his proposals will yield a "maximum wage" for workers.


    On immigration, he insists on a secure border and bemoans the presence of millions of people who are living in the country illegally, though he favors a creating a path to citizenship for children of immigrant parents who brought them to the U.S. illegally.


    Like other Republican White House hopefuls, Huckabee is sharply critical of President Obama's foreign policy. He has called for "bombing the daylights" out of Islamic State targets in the Middle East, though he says American troops should be deployed to the region only as part of an international coalition that includes nations such as Saudi Arabia and Jordan.


    But whatever the issue, Huckabee, also an author, wraps his appeal as a pitch to everyday Americans who he says "don't feel like anybody understands or knows who they are, much less cares what's happening to them."


    Evangelical Christian voters helped Huckabee win the Iowa caucuses in 2008 and finish a strong second in South Carolina, the largest of the early-voting states.


    He would need to replicate that early success to create an opening to build a wider coalition and compete deep into the primary schedule.

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015...ite-house-bid/

    NO AMNESTY

    Don't reward the criminal actions of millions of illegal aliens by giving them citizenship.


    Sign in and post comments here.

    Please support our fight against illegal immigration by joining ALIPAC's email alerts here https://eepurl.com/cktGTn

  2. #2
    Senior Member Judy's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2005
    Posts
    55,883
    Huckabee advocates a national consumption tax, which is similar to a sales tax, to replace the existing federal taxes on personal income and payrolls. He rejects calls for a minimum wage hike, saying his proposals will yield a "maximum wage" for workers.
    I totally support this, this is the FairTax, and we need it so badly to fix the US economy and help us stop illegal immigration.

    This legislation is HR 25 in the US House of Representatives and S 155 in the US Senate.
    A Nation Without Borders Is Not A Nation - Ronald Reagan
    Save America, Deport Congress! - Judy

    Support our FIGHT AGAINST illegal immigration & Amnesty by joining our E-mail Alerts at https://eepurl.com/cktGTn

  3. #3
    Senior Member JohnDoe2's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2008
    Location
    PARADISE (San Diego)
    Posts
    99,040
    RINO Mike Huckabee Running to Help Jeb Bush Lose to Democrats

    BY BOB ELLIS / ON MAY 5, 2015 AT 12:32 PM /


    Mike Huckabee (Photo credit: David Ball)

    With RINO Mike Huckabee’s entry into the 2016 presidential race, we have yet another distraction to help the GOP establishment’s choice RINO, Jeb Bush, win the primary and lose the general to a Democrat.


    Yes, I know, Mike Huckabee has fooled a LOT of people into believing he’s a conservative. He fooled quite a few when he ran for president back in 2007-2008, and he’s fooled even more people into thinking he’s a conservative since he’s had his Fox News show. These people either haven’t bothered to check his actual record against his rhetoric, or as I’ve seen a time or two, are stupid enough to think that the incredibly long list of liberal positions he took as governor is just a lie (I guess Huckabee’s lying about himself, then, since his own ACTIONS betray the fact that he’s a liberal) being promoted by uber-liberals like Phyllis Schlafly, Glenn Beck, John Fund and others.


    Yes, I’m sure the Dame of Conservatism Phyllis Schlafly said Huckabee “destroyed the conservative movement in Arkansas, and left the Republican Party a shambles” just because she’s secretly a liberal.


    Think about it. Liberals (including the “mainstream” media) don’t criticize and lie about Republicans for being too liberal; they attack Republicans for being what the Left hates: being conservative. So it’s pretty clear that when a conservative finds fault with Huckabee, it isn’t because Huckabee is really a conservative.


    So sorry, real conservatives don’t a have shameful record on illegal immigration, work to bring a Mexican consulate to Arkansas (the kind known to issue ID cards which confuse people into thinking illegals are in this country legally), advocate in-state tuition rates for illegal aliens who shouldn’t even be in this country in the first place, promote drivers licenses for illegal aliens, again creating the illusion that they are in our country legally, and call efforts to deal with illegal immigration something that “inflames those who are racist and bigots and makes them think there’s a real problem. But there’s not.”


    Real conservatives also don’t sound like a Democrat on economic issues, love tax hikes and spending increases.

    Conservatives also don’t go to liberal appeasement confabs, and mirror President Barack Obama in promoting the closure of the terrorist POW camp at Club Gitmo for fear terrorists might hate us.

    They also usually don’t also embrace big-government liberal education initiatives like Common Core.


    Real conservatives also don’t go at is wishy-washy on marriage and agree to allowing homosexual activists to counterfeit marriage as long as they don’t actually call it “marriage.”


    And perhaps what is the most disturbing thing about Mike Huckabee’s record, real conservatives aren’t so soft on crime that they directly contribute to the death of innocent people by turning out dangerous criminals onto the streets. Yes, while governor of Arkansas, Huckabee granted clemency to more convicted criminals than the six states surrounding Arkansas combined. A number of his clemency alumni used their newfound freedom to rape and kill innocent members of the public, including Wayne Dumond who, after being freed by Huckabee from his sentence for raping a cheerleader, went on to rape and kill a woman, and was suspected in another rape and murder (he died in prison before he could face the second set of fresh charges). And don’t forget Maurice Clemmons who was freed by Huckabee, only to go his merry way to slaughter four Washington state police officers about four years ago.

    Huckabee refuses to accept responsibility for the blood on his hands, and has a fundamental lack of understanding of the nature of evil.


    If you still have any doubts about whether Mike Huckabee is really a RINO, you can check out the mountain of information I found on this charlatan back in 2007-2008. I even spoke personally at length with a Republican leader within the Arkansas Legislature during the Huckabee years, and he confirmed that Huckabee is at best a “pro-life liberal.”


    You can’t talk conservative, behave liberal, and expect rational, intelligent people to believe your lies.


    Jeepers, I hate to say it, but Huckabee just might be a worse RINO than Jeb Bush. Of course, the GOP establishment will not support Huckabee (he isn’t polished enough, and they already have their guy picked: Jeb Bush), so unless we can inform those conservatives who have been fooled by Huckabee’s conservative act, he will only serve to bleed off conservative votes from a real conservative, while the RINO establishment remains in lockstep behind Bush.


    And if another RINO wins the GOP primary again, we can add yet another general election RINO loss to the list including Bob Dole, John McCain, and Mitt Romney. And the Democrat Party can finish the job of destroying this great nation.

    http://www.americanclarion.com/rino-...jeb-bush-38054

    NO AMNESTY

    Don't reward the criminal actions of millions of illegal aliens by giving them citizenship.


    Sign in and post comments here.

    Please support our fight against illegal immigration by joining ALIPAC's email alerts here https://eepurl.com/cktGTn

Similar Threads

  1. Pataki exploring 2016 White House run
    By JohnDoe2 in forum General Discussion
    Replies: 1
    Last Post: 02-02-2015, 01:50 PM
  2. For Rand Paul, a stumble on road to 2016 White House bid
    By JohnDoe2 in forum General Discussion
    Replies: 0
    Last Post: 05-07-2014, 06:40 PM
  3. Joe Biden Quietly Prepping for 2016 White House Run
    By kathyet in forum General Discussion
    Replies: 4
    Last Post: 05-29-2013, 06:42 PM
  4. Ron Paul announces White House bid
    By Matthewcloseborders in forum General Discussion
    Replies: 12
    Last Post: 03-15-2007, 04:14 PM
  5. RON PAUL Announces White House Bid
    By CCUSA in forum Other Topics News and Issues
    Replies: 3
    Last Post: 03-12-2007, 10:34 PM

Tags for this Thread

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •