Thursday, February 24, 2011

Mike Huckabee Testing the Waters for 2012

When I heard that Mike Hukabee was getting ready to release another book, I knew that there would be a lot of speculation about this topic, so let's just get it out of the way now. Mike Huckabee is testing the waters and considering a run for president in 2012.

His book, titled "A Simple Government" is a play off of some of the previous books that he has written including "A Simple Christmas." Huckabee likes simplicity and I think that American's like simplicity too. Things that are simple tend to work a whole lot better than things that are complicated and crazy. I think that Mike's choice to run will largely depend on the mood that the country is in as this summer/fall come around. I certainly don't think that Mike Huckabee will run for president unless he feels he has a really good chance at getting elected.

With Obama's recent change of heart regarding same-sex marriage, there is certainly an area that Huckabee can capitalize on in pointing out the difference between his platform and Barack Obama. Huckabee, who has not been consistently conservative on fiscal policy, has the ability to woo social conservatives in a way that no other major politician can. Because most Americans do believe that marriage should be defined as between a man and a woman, this is definitly a winning issue for Mike Huckabee.