Like it or not, the 2012 presidential campaign season is already underway. Right now, we’re in the nascent stage of the cycle where folks are asking: Will he/she run?
A new 8,300-word New Yorker profile asks that question of Mike Huckabee. Among the nuggets in the piece (some of which we had already heard):
– Huckabee is now registered to vote in Florida, not his native Arkansas
– He has gained weight since his ’08 campaign days, though he doesn’t weigh the 300-odd pounds he once weighed
– Former McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt says some VERY nice things about Huckabee.
Likely 2012 presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and his wife, Janet, have decided to pull up stakes and make Florida their home after being lifelong Arkansas residents.
Glenn Beck, a hero of the political right and the closing speaker at a conference of political conservatives here, offered a sweeping denunciation of progressivism on Saturday, calling it a cancer that must be cut out of the nation’s political system.
Mr. Paul, who inspired an intense following when he ran for president in 2008, swept the conference’s presidential straw poll. With 31 percent of the nearly 2,400 votes cast, he finished ahead of Mr. Romney, who won the straw poll last year and captured 22 percent of the vote on Saturday.
Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska, who did not attend the conference, was third, with 7 percent of the vote, and Mr. Pawlenty received 6 percent.
Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee said yesterday that he is leaning slightly against running for president in 2012 but says it’s far too early to say what he will do.
The religious right has spoken, and it wants Mike Huckabee. The former governor of Arkansas and Fox News personality won the Values Voter Summit’s 2012 presidential straw poll on Saturday, scoring more than double the votes of his closest competitors.
Diplomacy, Mike Huckabee-style: “Former U.S. presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said Tuesday there should be no Palestinian state in the West Bank and endorsed Israeli settlements there, sharply disagreeing with Washington and much of the world,” according to the Associated Press.
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