Huckabee Opts Out
By Ken Falkenstein | Saturday, May 14th, 2011 | Politics
Mike Huckabee announced on his Fox News program tonight that he will not be running for president. That leaves Mitch Daniels, Tim Pawlenty, and Mitt Romney as the viable candidates in or likely to be in the race for the GOP nomination and increases the knocks at the doors of Bob McDonnell and Chris Christie.
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Ken Falkenstein
Ken Falkenstein has been a staffer in the United States Senate and the Virginia House of Delegates. He has managed political campaigns. He was a military intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army in West Germany during the Cold War. He is currently a civil litigation attorney with Poole Mahoney, P.C. in Virginia Beach. But his concern for his kids' future is what most informs his writing.
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7 Responses to "Huckabee Opts Out"
Well FWIW Pawlenty is the only one of the three that the Left and Obama himself haven’t specifically praised.
I rather think at this point that McDonnell and Christie would have to be drafted. I don’t really see either one forming a campaign staff. However either one might accept a genuine draft. I would only see a draft happening though if a fringe candidate seemed to be gaining momentum. None of the three listed here fit that category obviously.
Pawlenty is an apostate Catholic. He’d have serious trouble winning in November.
This talk here about McDonnell being drafted for the GOP Presidential nomination is pure nonsense. Outside of Virginia, I doubt very few people have ever heard of him. He has been Governor of Virginia for a year. Big deal.
I would rather see both Christie and McDonnell finish a term as governors before they enter the national arena.
concur with JZ. they will be marginalized if they don’t finish their terms
Obama completed his US Senator term in 2008. Luckily, they changed the Democrats’ Senate terms to 3 years.
I honestly don’t think the ole Republican guard will work. There needs to be an outsider with some name recognition. …besides Trump.
I think Huckabee had an excellent chance to win the GOP nomination and almost no chance to win the presidency, sort of the opposite of Romney, who’d be pretty good in the general, but won’t get the GOP nomination.
It’s looking more and more like Pawlenty by default.
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