Huckabee Puts His Money Where His Mouth Is

Huckabee say's he's supporting candidates for 2010 and indeed he does. The following article from the Politico shows that he's given nearly a third of the money that his PAC has brought in to the candidates which he has endorsed. That of course does leave his PAC with some money to pay its employees and the other bills that come in. The article also points to a potential run in 2012 as the Governor starts working in some of the primary states.

In first-in-the-nation Iowa, where Huckabee won an upset in the 2008 nominating caucuses, Huck PAC sent $2,500 donations to Sen. Chuck Grassley and gubernatorial candidate Bob Vander Plaats, the conservative activist who lost the GOP primary to former Gov. Terry Branstad. Wes Enos, a state Senate candidate and Huckabee’s former Iowa political director, also got $500.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/39754_Page2.html#ixzz0vjiBn3FZ

Of course Huckabee has never been a huge fund raiser since people like Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin seem to be able to consistently out raise him money wise. I'm not sure if that's a negative or a positive. While I have no distain for rich folks (unlike the current administration), it is indeed interesting to me that Huckabee brings in most of his cash from "smaller" donors, folks who don't necessarily have a lot to give but give what they can.

Huckabee’s committee took in $258,000 between April and the end of June, according to fundraising information obtained by POLITICO – slightly less than the $273,000 Huck PAC raised in the first three months of 2010.

Huckabee’s financial numbers put him behind several other possible 2012 candidates in the fundraising department: former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s PAC raised $866,000 over the same period. Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney have not released updated fundraising information yet. but are expected to exceed Huckabee's total."

But if Huckabee isn’t leading the field in receipts, he’s still parceling out money at a rapid rate, giving $70,000 in the second quarter to candidates he endorsed. That means 27 percent of Huck PAC’s dollars ended up in the hands of politicians the former governor is supporting.

By comparison, Palin gave $87,500 out to candidates – just over 10 percent of the money she raised. In the first quarter of the year, Romney’s Free and Strong America PAC raised $1.6 million and donated $59,000.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/39754.html#ixzz0vjgQ6GQf

Conservative Political News, Conservative Web Sites, Mike Huckabee News

There's a lot of places to get conservative political news, but it seems to me that the place to get the most information and news about what's going on in the political arena is really online forums and blogs. You can get a lot of information by hitting up the Drudge Report or by going to any Andrew Breitbart's websites, but in my experience your best bet is to go to one of the many blogs or forums around the internet. Of course if you're looking for a top conservative Blog there's always Hot Air or Red State. Of course for Huckabee news, you can go over to Huck's Army, which, even though Mike Huckabee is not currently running for any political office still has quite a few people frequenting the forums and posting comments.

Do you know of any other good resources? Even your own blog or some other place that you get news that's not tainted by the spin of main stream media outlets? Post it below.

Do the Right Thing: Huckabee Points the Way

Mike Huckabee's book Do the Right Thing hasn't really gotten very many good book reviews. As the following blogger points out, it does tend to read as if Mike was the only one doing the right thing in the race for president and all the others were not. The following blogger points out some pretty interesting points in the book:

In “Do the Right Thing: Inside the Movement That’s Bringing Common Sense Back to America,” Mike Huckabee opens up aboot his life as a pizza delivery boy in Brooklyn amidst the racial turmoil of the late 1980’s. Actually, that’s not true, but Gov. Huckabee had to know what he was in for when he named his book after a Spike Lee movie. No, “Do the Right Thing…” was mainly aboot Huckabee’s 2008 campaign for president and I have to say, homeboy sure sounds bitter.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big fan of Huckabee. He has ideas and a voice that I feel is vital to the Republican Party, and they’re ideas that it’s hard to get people to listen to. Every interview with Huckabee can be broken into two parts: Part 1 is the reporter criticizing Huckabee for talking aboot religion, Part 2 is the same reporter then asking him nothing but questions aboot religion. Mike Huckabee literally had to ask people to ask him aboot education and healthcare.

But those ideas get lost even more in what amounts to a manifesto aboot everyone he feels wronged him over the past year. While Mitt Romney is out talking aboot the auto bailout, Mike Huckabee is out there talking aboot Mitt Romney…and seemingly for no other reason than to prevent him from ever becoming President. If Huck can never have it, it’s like he wants to make sure Mitt never gets it either.

Source: http://www.bloggernews.net/118739

I have read parts of the book, and I don't think that the fact that he may come across as being a little bitter makes the book something that should be entirely dismissed. As a book from a prominent politician it deserves attention and should be on the list of any political science major's reading list.

Presidential Candidates 2012: A Full House

As of right now the 2012 Presidential Candidate list is a fairly large field. The following list is compiled over at wikipedia as potential republican candidates, though I tend to think that some of the one's they've put on the list will not run (such as Jeb Bush, former gov. of Florida). As for Scott Brown, I think he has no intention of running for president either (though that might be something he might do, you never really know). He does have a steady calm personality which after President Obama, would be very nice. I think Jindal looks very attractive for 2016, but I wouldn't suggest he run in 2012 (though he does have quite a bit more experience that the current President).

• Governor Haley Barbour of Mississippi
• Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts
• Businessman and radio talk show host Herman Cain of Georgia
• Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey
• Governor Mitch Daniels of Indiana
• Former Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich of Georgia
• Former Governor Mike Huckabee of Arkansas
• Former Governor Gary E. Johnson of New Mexico
• Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana
• Former Governor and 2008 vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin of Alaska
• Representative Ron Paul of Texas
• Governor Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota
• General David Petraeus of New York
• Former Governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts
• Former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives Marco Rubio of Florida
• Former Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania
• Senator John Thune of South Dakota

My favorite on this list of course is Gov. Huckabee (what where you expecting me to say, afterall this is President Huckabee 2012 blog right?). But of course there are a lot of candidates here that I would be perfectly happy with. I do know that right now the focus of conservatives needs to be picking up seats in congress and really 2012 is a long shot away. A bazillion things can happen between now and then that could make it very difficult for someone to take out the current administration. That fact however is no excuse for us to not be seriously thinking about who will run and how they can be best served in the election. I'm sure if your name is on this list, then you're seriously thinking about whether you should try to run or not.

A Fat Mike Huckabee: Will He Run Again?

Mike Huckabee has been a really big guy in the past. He has often told the story of how he lost weight in order to regain his health. However, there's been rumors circulating around the internet that Huckabee has become fat again. I don't know how true these rumors are, since he seems to be staying in pretty good shape on his show. Of course the idea is that a fat politician can run and succeed at getting in political office. But of course don't tell that to Chris Christy who is really a big guy but beat the incombent governor last year in New Jersey. Perhaps of course the real facts are that a governor who promises to trim the fat out of government is more in demand right now than a politician who is skinny and healthy.