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Mike Huckabee Leaves Fox News As He Weighs 2016 Bid

He's a social conservative with a friendly manner.

That will get you far in the primaries. Don't really know his positions. The old overweight family pictures won't hurt him as much this time around.
 
Actually, it's not true that there was only one option. Most chose just to leave the question open.

Most? Are you actually going to try and sell that? Sources?
 
I don't watch FoxNews. What sort of commentator has he been? Are people generally onboard with his opinions? Not talking about his last campaign, talking about now.

He has his own weekend show, is affable, and is unashamed of his conservative ideas. I don't watch his show except--when I remember, which isn't every weekend--the last 15 minutes, and this is because of the music. You never know who's going to show up and sit in with the band, so it's worth cruising by.

Here is an initiative supporting music education in schools of which Huckabee is a part:

https://www.namm.org/news/press-releases/namm-foundation-launches-wanna-play-fund-fox-news-
 
He seems to be a decent fellow

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Huckabee is a good man but not electable.....He should run for the senate.
 
Why, in your view, is he unelectable?

his positions are SO out of sync with that of the pubic only a tiny fragment of the electorate could be expected to vote for him
now, have him run in the back country where his 'fame' might appeal to the local hayseeds, and he might win a seat somewhere
 
regardless of his religious views (which may play well in a GOP primary but not with the general electorate), he is in my opinion disqualified for having been on the scene for too long.

making the choice between another bush, another clinton, or another national political figure who has spent several decades in politics and in front of tv cameras is a depressing situation
 
Yet being on the scene too long doesn't seem to prevent the GOP from calling itself the party of Reagan .
 
Yet being on the scene too long doesn't seem to prevent the GOP from calling itself the party of Reagan .

well, reagan hasn't been on the scene for a while, but in general i think they do need to get a new schtick; i think the policies reagan pursued as president would have him labeled a leftist heretic in a gop primary today
 
well, reagan hasn't been on the scene for a while, but in general i think they do need to get a new schtick; i think the policies reagan pursued as president would have him labeled a leftist heretic in a gop primary today

Not with the way current GOPs invoke his name as them being the most Reaganesque GOP of the bunch--especially the TEA partiers.

As a mod/con DEM, I'm rather enjoying the intrigue in DC right now in both parties. (61-YOA)
 
Not with the way current GOPs invoke his name as them being the most Reaganesque GOP of the bunch--especially the TEA partiers.

As a mod/con DEM, I'm rather enjoying the intrigue in DC right now in both parties. (61-YOA)

Greatness echoes down through the ages, regardless of changes in the political environment. Repubs look back to RWR and Lincoln. Dems have their Jefferson-Jackson Dinner every year, but no Dems own slaves.
 
Lincoln has ZERO in common with today's GOP as a moderate Illinoisan would know.
One can only wonder how the USA would have turned out with Lincoln's Reconstruction agenda versus the disastrous agenda of the 'Radical Republicans'.
The Radical Republicans who directly created the KKK out of good Southern folk.

Greatness echoes down through the ages, regardless of changes in the political environment. Repubs look back to RWR and Lincoln. Dems have their Jefferson-Jackson Dinner every year, but no Dems own slaves.

Your endless revision of DEMs owning slaves versus Southerners owning slaves is once again noted and dismissed.
Which party, along with their Civil War DEM ancestors, now runs the South ?
 
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