Mike Huckabee cruised to an easy victory in a presidential straw poll taken among attendees at a social conservative conference, beating a group of four other Republican contenders by an over two-to-one margin.
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well, steve forbes would have won at a club for growth straw poll 😉
Huckabee, after his statement that the US should be run like an Islamic state (just a slight paraphrasing there) is the one candidate who, if he is nominated, will definitely get me to vote for Obama.
Add to that Huckabee’s penchant for the nanny state and, well, is there anything to like about this guy?
I’m with David Hume. Straw polls, especially this early, don’t mean much. Still-it’s annoying that he won.
A straw poll of a bunch of religious folks picked a religious guy. Yawn. It means less than nothing. Just ignore it. It tells us *nothing*.
Who are most readers of this blog supporting for 2012?
Romney?
I’m supporting “so far unknown” and hoping we can find him or her.
Who are most readers of this blog supporting for 2012?
Of the people in the race now: Romney. I may change my mind depending on who else enters.
Not even Huckabee as the GOP nominee would get me to vote for Obama. I don’t really see anyone that great on the horizon for 2012, but after several months of Obama with a far-left Dem congress just about anyone is a breath of fresh air.
Huckabee stands no chance nationally. He is basically a bible belt candidate IMO.
Conservative populism is dangerous. We have to do everything we can to oppose Huckabee.
I’m holding out hope for Petraeus.
The Hucksterman would try to sell chrisian socialism with a lot of “Jesus loves everyone” blather. We would get more of the same, but more of the same.
Louis Andrews wrote “Huckabee stands no chance nationally. He is basically a bible belt candidate IMO.”
The point is that by running for the nomination, and staying in the race when he has no chance of winning, he can take votes away from a conservative candidate, leaving us with another John McCain.
If we got a Republican Congress, or a congress with a powerful GOP/Blue-dog coalition, I wouldn’t mind Obama so much. His foreign policy is the least objectionable one in the mainstream (Honduras-meddling notwithstanding), so if he could be brought under control domestically, we might get something like we saw in the 90s w/o Clinton’s general tackiness.
If Huckabee won the nomination, I would vote third party. I voted third party in the last election because I thought that a McCain win would be at least as disasterous as an Obama win. Even after seeing Obama in action, I have not changed my mind. As bad as he is, at least the conservative movement is getting some life breathed into it by opposition to him. If the Obamacare and cap-and-trade fail, the GOP could make huge gains in Congress and opinion polls. He could be the greatest gift to the Republican party since Carter.
Huckabee is just Obama with a cross thrown in, as McCain was Obama with a medal thrown in. Both support the same socialist, statist policies as Obama. The difference is that the Republican congress would not oppose a Republican president. With President McCain or Huckabee, we would be getting the same awful policies as now, but the Republicans would not get any gains in Congress. In fact, conservatives would be so demoralized that we might end up losing seats.
I don’t know about anyone else here, but I’m looking forward to seeing Gary E. Johnson run. He’s a very libertarian Republican who’s strongly pro-hemp and successfully administered New Mexico’s first school voucher program in the state history.
I hoping for Petraeus, for sure. Probably not going to happen though. Like Fred Thompson last cycle, the nomination is his if he wants it. Like Fred Thompson, he might be too normal and well-adjusted to want it.
If Huckabee gets the nod, I’m voting third party for the second time in my life. I’m not thrilled with Romney, but I’d vote for him.
the question is: which mitt romney will show up? 🙂 in any case, as i’ve said ad nauseum too early….