Mike Huckabee said Saturday there would be no sequel to his surprisingly strong 2008 White House bid, in which he won the Iowa Republican caucus and finished second in the primaries to Sen. John McCain.
“All the factors say go, but my heart says no,” Huckabee, who was considered the GOP frontrunner in several national polls, said on his Fox News Channel show.
The show is normally prerecorded before it airs at 8 p.m. ET, but Huckabee saved the last 10 minutes of tonight’s broadcast to make his announcement live.
“The past few months have been times of deep personal reflection,” Huckabee said. “Even though I wasn’t actively establishing a campaign organization or seeking financial support to run again, polls have consistently put me at or near the top to be the Republican nominee.”
“But I know that under the best of circumstances, being President is a job that takes one to the limit of his or her human capacity,” he continued. “I can’t know or predict the future, but I know for now my answer is clear and firm: I will not seek the Republican nomination for President this year.”
I just cannot see how people would think that he is presidential. He may be a smart man and I have nothing against him but he just doesn’t have it. I hope that Chris or Ryan decide to run than maybe we will have a chance to win…….
@Hedy: Actually, Huck is a much smarter man than many give him credit for- if you are looking for magnetic personality, then, no- but I think we have all seen the unintended consequences of voting in the “new and exciting”, and that did not work out so well.
My father had a saying in the advertising business- “I’m glad you see it my way,” and Huck can build some bridges- we do not want , nor do we need someone who is as divisive as is charismatic- we already have a version of that. No- what we do need is someone who understands the precipice we are standing on, and NOT be the first lemming to go over, but instead, turn around and say “We must find another way down.”
Blake wow that is so well express, and I am impress, of your explanation.
from now on , don’t miss out on giving your opinion on the one that will try is chance for the PRESIDENCY, THERE WAS NO EMOTION ON THE LAST ELECTION, IT WAS, ACCEPTED WITHOUT A PROBE, but we had many bells ringing, by SARAH PALIN, that was in short QUOTES, but the propaganda was viciously condemming any quotes by accusing her, diminish her to break her quotes as it was nonimportant, the MEDIA PROJECTING THEIR GUY AND PROTECTING HIM, ALL THE WAY,
I HAD THE FEELING THAT THEY WHERE SO WELL PAID THAT THEY COULD NOT SEE IT FAIL.
It was obvious. hope the next one will have the AMERICANS TURN THE LIGHT OF TRUTH ON,
THEY ARE PAYING DEARLY FOR THEIR MISTAKE NOW.
Shame – that’s one less circus exhibit:(
And the clown Trump gone as well! Let’s hope Palin throws her grizzly mom hat in the ring otherwise it’s going to be pretty dull with the likes of Romney running.
GAFFA UK, THAT IS NOT A CIRCUS EXIBIT, AND HER NAME IS SARAH PALIN,
YOU ARE OFFENSIVE, TOWARD AMERICANS
LEARN SOME MANNERS
@Ilovebees
Learn some manners you say whilst shouting capitals? Lol. I guess you call out everyone here each time they call the President – Obama as opposed to President Obama or Barack Obama do you? Calling Hucklbee a circus exhibit is pretty mild compared to the insults thrown at Democrats on here. But I guess like Fox you are TOO ‘FAIR AND BALANCED’ TO EVEN COMPREHEND YOUR OWN BLATANT BIAS? 😀
GAFFA UK, don’t give me that smilling face, nor that argument,
my friends are very classy to compare with what the party you side up with
have done to incite against THE PRESIDENT BUSH, along with THEIR AFFILIATED MEDIA,
you know they have used all the arguments to demolish SARAH PALIN ALSO,
that is the bully way to win a presidency on their sides by demonyse a going PRESIDENT,
OTHERWISE, they would not have WON.
so don’t come here and whine about it, and mind your manners when you come here,
because they are the best of all, just like ALLEN WEST IS THE BEST.
@bees
Wow looks like you missed the point….hypocrite;)
GAFFA UK, you are a typical english man, and you have miss your point a long time ago,
@bees
Unable to shake off the hypocrite tag you decide to descend one rung lower and go with stereotypes huh? And you come on here to complain about demonizing Presidents? Or is ok to demonise Obama but not Bush? At least I don’t have to translate the word hypocrite for you into French.
GAFFA UK, you’re part of the BASH BUSH with the same like you,
YOU started it remember?, the burden to carry is on you’re shoulders,
you have attack me with name calling,as we saw the same for The BUSH BASHING,
SO WHAT’S GOOD FOR THE GEESE IS GOOD FOR THE GANDER,
TAKE IT AND FILL YOURSELF WITH THE FOOD YOU’RE FEEDING THIS PLACE WITH;
I want no part of it, because It’s POISON
@BEES
OH LOOK BEES – JUST LIKE YOU I HAVE MANAGED TO FIND THE CAPS LOCK KEYS. MAYBE IF I TYPE IN CAPITALS IT WILL SOMEHOW MAKE MY POINT THAT MUCH MORE CONVINCING. WHAT DO YOU RECKON? THAT’S RIGHT DESPITE NOT MENTIONING BUSH ON THIS THREAD – I ADMIT I STARTED THE WHOLE BASH BUSH THING – BEFORE THAT THERE WAS ONLY POETRY AND PEACE ESPECIALLY WHEN IT CAME TO THE RIGHT TALKING ABOUT CLINTON – THEY WERE ALWAYS SO FULL OF MANNERS AND RESPECT. AND BEFORE THAT BUSH SENIOR, REAGAN, CARTER ETC – THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN PLEASANT EXCHANGES BETWEEN THE LEFT & RIGHT. IT WAS ME WHO STARTED IT SORRY. EVEN ON THIS WEBSITE – NO ONE EVER CALLED A POLITICAN BY THEIR SURNAME BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE BAD MANNERS WOULDN’T IT – THAT WAS UNTIL I STARTED IT. BUT I’M SURE WITH YOUR IMPECCABLE MANNERS YOU WILL NOW POLICE THESE FORUMS AND LET ANYONE KNOW THEY HAVE BAD MANNERS IF THEY DARE CRITICISE A POLITICAN OR ONLY REFER THEM BY THEIR SURNAME. OF COURSE I’M SURE YOU WON’T BE BIAS IN FULFILLING YOUR DUTY NOW WOULD YOU? AS THAT WOULD BE DISHONEST AND HYPOCRITICAL NOW WOULDNT IT?
@GaffaUK: No, Gaffa- you and your ilk have demonized Bush, even though he has been out of office for three years, and ALL the policies are the responsibility of king HusseinII – and believe me, he will whore himself in any way he can, because he has no moral compass, just a morbid narciscisstic need to exhibit himself, to the detriment of others- ALL others.
Bari has NO conception of right or wrong- witness the way he has slapped Israel down, prior to the Israeli PM’s visit.
Everything he said could have been said privately, but no- he had to have some ego-stroking time with the TOTUSES (or is it TOTI? I can’t tell) and “talk” to the Arab street, which despises him, and would blow up the Rezident if they could.
No Gaffa- you need to rethink your positions – America and Israel are the only two powers left that stand between us and a caliphate, which would impoverish everyone.
If you can’t see this, you need to stop bloging and begin to think critically- because unless We, The People elect someone other than this POS we currently are burdened with, there will be blood.
After all, just look at England, and the sorry way the Arabs have not assimilated into that society- that’s not exactly a ringing endorsement of Arab immigration, now is it?
I sometimes wonder if, unless an arab child were to be taken out of that toxic environment and brought up in the ways of Representative Democracy, there could possibly be ANY hope that an arab would want to come willingly out of the seventh century, and realize that there are other ways- but that won’t happen until they quit adhering strictly to the radical parts of the Koran, and realize that their neighbor is not their enemy.
Israel gave the Gaza back, and look what happened– the palestinians just got a shorter distance to shoot their rockets.
It’s a good thing I am not the PM of Israel, for I have Colonel Fetterman’s outlook on this type of situation- “Nits make lice,” he said, “Kill them all.” Then there is no trouble.
Look at Vlad the Impaler’s technique, when muslim hordes sought to invade his land- he put 20,000 muslims on stakes, driven into the ground, a grisly forest of dead and dying men, all to make a point- and the muslims retreated. This, apparently, is the only thing muslims respect- brute force, delivered without any ambiguity. You should read history.
The Jews were on that land before the Palestinians, and IF YOU READ HISTORY, you would know that it was Jordan, Egypt, and Syria that told the Palestinians to go, form refugee camps, and when these three nations had kicked Israel’s butt, they could come back and claim all that the Jews had to leave behind.
As history shows, Israel defeated all three of those nations, and claimed (as was their right) ,the Golan Heights, West Bank, and Gaza.
Israel’s slogan is , “Never Again!” I believe them, and I respect them for this.
GAFFA UK, compare to my friends here I am so much less knowledgeble, as you see, and I respect them
for it
BUT I CAN SAY TO YOU, PUT THAT IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT,
BYE
@Blake
First of all it’s not Bush but George W Bush or even better still President George W Bush. Saying otherwise shows you have no manners. I’m surprise Bees didn’t tick you off for that. As for ‘Representative Democracy’ are you refering to the US? My point being is that almost every President for decades and probably right from the start have been demonized – to pretend that it’s just one side is ridiculous. Bill Clinton continues to be demonised even though it’s been many years since he was President. And Obama is demonized – as a commie – as a muslim – as someone not born in the US – all which are false. I’m sure there are those on the left who branded President George W Bush as a fascist – but did any of them also get his religion wrong or demand to see his birth certificate, then his long birth certificate and then claim it was fake? I’m not a fan of Obama (he is/was greatly overated by some) – and there’s plenty of genuine political material for the right to get their teeth into without playing in the gutter.
As for British Arabs – they make up significantly less than 1% of the UK population. I don’t think I have ever known someone I have worked with or known personally who was a British Arab – and I have lived in London. I think there have been some immigration issues regarding Iraqis but illegal immigration, although a hot topic in the UK and here in Australia, it is far less than a problem in scale than the US with the leakey Mexican border. As far as I know most British Arabs aren’t on a jihad or are suicide bombers. I suspect the arabs that there are in the UK integrate as well as the English and the Americans do in such countries as Saudi Arabia. I guess the most famous British Arab is Mohemed Al-Fayed and he integrated pretty well by buying Harrods, Fulham FC, hob-nobbing with the rich and famous and being accused of being corrupt and dodging taxes but the British establishment denied him citizenship. I’ve been to Egypt once for a holiday but besides the history I didn’t really like the place – too much hassle. I hope the new caliphrate is going to introduce annoying street vendors across the world who try to flog you with crap souvenirs you don’t want!
@Bees
ZUT ALORS – VOUS AVEZ PLEIN DE MERDE.
GaafaUK, BY GEORGE, you are worse than I thought, a real naughty boy are you,
that kind of french is not in my learned language,
and has not affect me to notive how lower you get yourself in the ditch,
without any help,
hope your wife get better soon,
@Bees
I’m actually thinking about learning French. I was terrible at it at school but there are quite a few jobs in videogames these days in Montreal so could come in handy in the future.
Yes my wife is out of hospital and is doing well. Merci beaucoup.
@GaffaUK: You are correct in that I could have said President Bush, but as I know him, I could also call him “Dubya”- but this is beside the point- the liberals excoriated the man for ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING- Blaming him for Katrina was the worst, I thought, because he COULD NOT SEND TROOPS IN UNTIL REQUESTED BY THE Gov. Blanco- and it was she that hesitated. Still, he got the blame- now, there are things you could lay at his doorstep, but we are supposedly living in the real world, and that means the present day, and Pres. Bush is not in office- Barrie is.
Now, whether he is a Commie, or simply one of the “useful idiots” of Marxism I care not- the damage he and his socialist cronies are inflicting on the US is plenty- and in past times would have been grounds for Impeachment on the grounds of “Un-American Activities and Grand Malfeasance”- you see, he took an oath to “Defend the Constitution”… among other things, and now he is trying to tear it apart.