The Colbert Report – Mike Huckabee

Posted on February 25, 2011 by | 7 Comments

Mike Huckabee believes there aren’t nearly enough potential presidential candidates working for Fox News. (05:08)

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7 responses to “The Colbert Report – Mike Huckabee”

  1. kevin | February 27, 2011 at 7:09 am | Reply

    Mike Huckabee is a legitimate contender for the Republican nomination, but so are a lot of other politicians within that party. I think Huckabee is a genuinely a good guy who has good intentions and tries to represent the social-conservative faithful as best as he can. In particular, he has the best chance of any other Republican candidate to appeal and represent religious conservative voters, as he is an ordained Baptist minister. However, that could also hurt him as the United States is thought to be a secular nation that desires to “seperate church from state”. Clearly, Huckabee will struggle to get voters who believe in that notion. In fact, Huckabee claims he entered politics because he wanted to bring Jesus to the nation. Another example of using his religious beliefs to influence his political stances is his Zionist view about Israel, as he believes Israel was a promised nation to living Jews by God, and that a Palestinian nation should be located in a seperate area outside of Israel. This kind of thinking could be a strong negative for an American president to have, if Huckabee were to be elected, in regards to relations in the Middle East.

    I think there are too many other candidates for the Republican nomination for Huckabee to overcome. The last time I checked, Ron Paul and Mitt Romney are the favorites right now, and people like Mitch Daniels, Newt Gingrich, Rand Paul, Michelle Bachmann, Rick Santorum, Sarah Palin, etc. are expected to make a run at the nomination. Also, Donald Trump has been considered an eventual candidate as well, although that remains to be seen.

    In my opinion, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, Rand Paul, and Mitch Daniels are the most ideal politicians for the nomination. Both Ron and Rand Paul are strict constitutionalists with libertarian stances, and both have received lots of support from the Tea Party movement. Both have also received support from Independent voters, thus they could make a serious run at getting swing states during the Presidential election. Even some notable leftist/progressive people, like Ralph Nader, have shown some support for Ron Paul. With Newt Gingrich, he is another politician who has received support from the Tea Party movement, and he can promote himself with his experience as a Georgian representative and as Speaker of the House when Bill Clinton was president. As Speaker, Gingrich was Time’s Person of the Year due to his role of leadership when the Republicans took majority control of the House for the first time in 40 years. Gingrich, for the most part, is an archetypal representative of what modern conservatives (neoconservatives) are, in the sense that he wants to restore the type of government that Ronald Reagan implemented. Lastly, the dark house of the four would be Mitch Daniels. He is the current Governor of Indiana, and as of 11/22/2010, he has a 75% approval rating in that state. Although he has said that he’s reluctant to run for president, many media outlets have speculated that he will due to him receiving some praise from his fellow Republicans and his record of government reform, tax reduction, balancing the budget, etc., all of which are stances that fiscal conservatives have pride themselves on. A New York Times writer once gave the opinion that Daniels, if nominated, “couldn’t match Obama in style, but he could match Obama in substance”.

    Of course, none of the four politicians I mentioned work for Fox News, so they may not win the nomination, according to Huckabee. We’ll just have to wait until 2012 to see who comes out of the Republican party, along with plenty of third party/independent candidates, to challenge Barack Obama for the presidency.

    • keltie | February 28, 2011 at 5:57 pm | Reply

      Ron Paul will never win the primary, because the objective this year is only to “beat Obama”, and they will want someone uncontroversial and electable. Actual platforms don’t matter very much in an “anybody but so-and-so” year. So Mike Huckabee might have more of a chance than you think.

      • kevin | February 28, 2011 at 6:48 pm |

        I like to think “never say never”, but you’re right in your theory as to why Ron Paul may not win the primary, which is a shame in my opinion. I myself am supportive of Ron Paul even though I’m not a registered Republican (I’m a registered Independent), because I think he genuinely believes in the paleoconservative/libertarian stances that he has adopted, whereas a lot of other Republicans take conservative stances for the sake of exploiting conservative voters and winning as many of those people’s votes as possible. Also, I think it’s good to have a politican like Ron Paul as president, considering that he’s one of the few politicians today who have actually read the U.S. Constitution.

        One of the key things I like about Ron Paul is that he aligns himself with smart people. A good example of this type of person is an investment broker/financial commentator by name of Peter Schiff, who predicted the 2008 Great Recession in the United States and the rest of the world over 2 years before it actually happened. Schiff forecasted that a recession would occur several times on cable news channels interviews back in 2006-2007, and was basically laughed at and criticized for thinking that way by his fellow financial “experts” and Wall Sreet folks. But his prediction was proven to be correct, and he still maintains his belief that the American dollar will continue to lose its value as long as the United States countinues to have a low personal savings rate, which is one of the contributing factors as to why the U.S. is currently the world’s largest debtor nation. Both Ron Paul and Peter Schiff firmly believe in Austrian school economics, and both believe the U.S. should rid itself of the Federel Reserve System and go back to using the Gold Standard as its monetary system.

        If Ron Paul were to win the Republican primary, he would have a good chance at winning the presidential election because there are a lot of Independent voters who have supported him in the past and have continued to support him. Even prominent leftist people like Ralph Nader and Dennis Kucinich are supportive of Ron Paul, because Paul, Nader, and Kucinich agree that the Federal government has become too large, they all agree that the Wars in the Middle East are unneccessary, and they all agree in wanting to end Coporate welfare. This really helps Paul as it gives him a good chance to win swing states, and maybe even some Blue states, during the presidential election, along with plenty of Red states he’s certain to get.

  2. Ralph Castellanos Jr | March 6, 2011 at 3:18 am | Reply

    Republicans subscribe to the notion that a small government would be best, personal responsibility over welfare programs and such things of that sort. . . yet. . . Mike Huckabee is a Republican AND Social Conservative??? which holds a political or moral ideology that believes that government has a role in encouraging or enforcing what they consider traditional values or behaviors.

    Biased government intervention. . . or Oxymoron?

  3. Corinthia Montoya | June 16, 2011 at 11:12 am | Reply

    Mike Huckabee is better known that several of the current candidates running for the GOP nomination. In order for the republicans to win the presidential race in 2012 they need to bring a candidate who is a good public speaker and an excellent motivator. I personally like Mike Huckabee but I don’t know if he is going to be able to beat president Obama. Several people will vote for Obama simple because he is currently in the oval office. Mike Huckabee is a social conservative and will probably not be able to win over the moderate republicans who are going to be crucial in the 2012 election. Only time will tell.

  4. Nazaret M. | July 30, 2011 at 10:56 pm | Reply

    One thing that Huckabee said that caught my atttention was that if “you’re in a whole stop digging”. He obviously is using logic and want to make the government more simple. That seems like a good idea, but very complicated.he surely wants to run against Obama, but that doesn’t assure him anything.

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