Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, and Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman are seen during a news conference at the bipartisan meeting of the National Governor’s Association at Congress Hall, in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008.
The survey size was 460 Republicans and the survey’s sampling error was 4.5%.
Some interesting notes:
“It might come as a surprise to some that Palin does better than Huckabee among GOP men but that Huckabee beats Palin among Republican women,” says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. “Palin’s strength is also concentrated among older Republicans, but Huckabee may have a slight edge among conservative Republicans.”
Among voters who consider themselves born again or evangelical, Huckabee draws more support than Palin, with a 9 point edge. Meanwhile, Palin holds a 7-point advantage among non-born again or evangelical voters.
It is way early but is there any reason why Mike Huckabee (with a smile) has been dumping on Palin lately?
And, no surprise here - Conservatives prefer Sarah Palin:
Looks like Rudy and Newt can make other plans for 2012. With Hillary’s move to State looks lie Rudy Giuliani’s options are wide open in New York anyway.
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney
Definitely no love lost between these two former GOP Presidential rivals.
On Tuesday, that book will arrive on store shelves, and in terms of payback, it will not disappoint. At once a memoir of his campaign, a treatise on the ills of the Republican Party and a blueprint for his own political future, Do The Right Thing: Inside the Movement That’s Bringing Common Sense Back to America is filled with sharp words for his fellow Republicans who frustrated his bid for the party’s nomination.
Mitt Romney, Huckabee’s principal rival in Iowa, comes in for the roughest treatment. Huckabee writes that the former Massachusetts governor’s record was “anything but conservative until he changed the light bulbs in his chandelier in time to run for president.” He notes that Romney declined to make a phone call of congratulations after Huckabee beat the oddsmakers to win the Iowa caucuses, “which we took as a sign of total disrespect.” He mocks Romney for suggesting, during one debate, more investment in high-yield stocks as a solution to economic woes. “Let them eat stocks!” Huckabee jokes.
Asked to respond, Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom said Huckabee was acting small.
“This type of pettiness is beneath Mike Huckabee,” Fehrnstrom. “If we’re going to move the party forward, we need to offer more than personal recriminations. Unfortunately, in this book, Mike Huckabee is consumed with presumed slights, and he seems more interested in settling scores than in bringing people together.”
The winners in this firestorm: Bobby Jindahl, John Huntsman, Tim Pawlenty and Sarah Palin.
The Mike Huckabee JOKE quote from the National rifle Association Convention:
“That was Barack Obama, he just tripped off a chair, he’s getting ready to speak. Somebody aimed a gun at him and he dove for the floor.”
You don’t want to know how many people have told Flap that should Barack Obama win the Presidency that don’t worry someone will take him out.
Good God!
But, to have Mike Huckabee a former GOP Governor of Arkansas and Presidential candidate to make light of Obama in this manner - well, why doesn’t the GOP just surrender the election.
Mike Huckabee has been hanging onto his “MIRACLE” for far too long and is pissing folks off in the GOP. His ten seconds of glory in the political arena has passed.
Maybe he can get a job as a televangelist after March 4th?
US Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee speaking at the University of Maryland in College Park. Huckabee may still be a long shot in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, but his weekend victories in Kansas and Louisiana proved he is likely to be a thorn in the side of frontrunner John McCain for some time to come.
Mike Huckabee must have figured out that he would NOT be selected as likely GOP nominee John McCain’s Vice President.
Speaking at a press conference after addressing Thomas Road Baptist Church, Huckabee continued to compare himself to Ronald Reagan, who ran in 1976 against the party establishment, which led to a floor fight at the national convention. When reminded that the Republicans lost the 1976, Huckabee said it wasn’t because the party was divided, but because Gerald Ford did not energize the party.
“He never championed himself as a conservative, not a pro-life person for whom that was important,” Huckabee said. “He was a really nice moderate Republican, a true gentleman. But a member of Congress and more a part of the Washington Republican establishment than representing the grassroots of conservatism.”
And in a thinly veiled reference to McCain, Huckabee went on to say Republicans could lose again with a similar candidate.
“I would argue that if we do not have a candidate who can excite the base of this country, and particularly the base of our party and make them energetic and going out and getting the folks to put the yard signs in and making phone calls and traveling all over the country asking people to vote, we can lose again,” he said.
Huckabee is becoming unmanageable and a loose cannon. Does he really think he has a political future after his failure to withdraw and by sticking a finger in John McCain’s eye?
The answer is NO.
Mike Huckabee who is a pro-life Evangelical Christian LIBERAL has NO future in the GOP outside of Arkansas.
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