The PJ Tatler

Huck Fine?

Mike Huckabee is quietly amassing the numbers to mount a legit run for the White House. While most Americans can’t name a single 2012 GOP candidate, the Daily Beast’s John Avlon examines the growing popularity of the former Arkansas governor.

Right now Huckabee looks like the guy to beat in Iowa and South Carolina, while giving Mitt Romney a run for his (boatloads of) money in Florida. The national media may not have noticed this yet, but it looks like the establishment in Iowa has.

The Des Moines Register’s political columnist Kathie Obradovich fills out the dynamic behind Huck’s buoyancy. “Huckabee is charming, famous, and a proven caucus winner,” she says. “That probably has as much to do with his poll numbers at this stage than any of his positions on issues or viability as a candidate. He’s a religious conservative but he’s more amiable and less intimidating than Sarah Palin, for example.”

The fundamental question remains, will Huckabee actually run? The full article is here.

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8 Comments, 8 Threads

1. Roger L Simon

If Huckabee wins, we’re going to have more diets than Oprah!

April 21, 2011 - 10:54 am Link to this Comment
2. snork

Maurice Clemmons.

April 21, 2011 - 11:13 am Link to this Comment
3. Wordygirl

Please make him go away!!!

April 21, 2011 - 12:56 pm Link to this Comment
4. Robert L. Mayo

“Help us, Obi-Wan Daniels. You’re our only hope!”

April 21, 2011 - 1:44 pm Link to this Comment
5. Rifle308

Great, the sniping at GOP possible president candidates within the rightwing ranks has already begun! Here’s to four more years of the Obama!

I see I am going to get to spend my “golden years” in a dieing country.

On the gravestone of the United States: To Stupid to Live!

Rifle308

April 21, 2011 - 4:43 pm Link to this Comment
6. ErisGuy

Huckabee, Romney, or Obama. Three reasons to stay home.

April 22, 2011 - 3:11 am Link to this Comment
7. BBC

His aw shucks passive agression is just creepy.

April 22, 2011 - 9:47 am Link to this Comment
8. LifeDontWasteIt

For those who can’t or won’t read… Huckabee did NOT wrongly release Clemmons another Governor did. DUH. When Huckabee agreed with the parole boards request for clemancy earlier he had no violent record yet, was asked by the parole board, when the (then) poor kid (a teenager) had gotten over 100 YEARS for a purse snatching! Huckabee was totally right to let the young guy out… It was a bad racist conviction frankly. LATER A DIFFERENT Governor mistakenly let him out with a violent record… Not Huckabee. Doesn’t anyone fact check?

April 27, 2011 - 9:07 am Link to this Comment