Chuck Hucks Up

This is just plain weird. They both seem to be saying weird things. If Mike Huckabee doesn't want to run anymore he should just bow out gracefully, not say stupid things until he has nowhere left to go.
What if Oprah Winfrey and Barack Obama acted like this about Hillary Clinton?

Huckabee Highlights

Some Highlights from Mike Huckabee's campaign to share.

• News Release: Mike Huckabee Names Ed Rollins as National Campaign Chairman

• December 14, 2007

• Little Rock, AR - Former Arkansas Governor and Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee has named Republican political strategist Ed Rollins as his National Campaign Chairman.
• "I am proud to announce the addition of Ed Rollins as my National Campaign Chairman," said Huckabee. "Ed is an unparalleled strategist and is well-known as the man who directed the most successful Presidential campaign in the history of the United States. Ed's experience and track record of building winning coalitions within our party, bringing together social, economic and foreign-policy conservatives, and reaching across party lines, makes him a good fit for our campaign."
• Rollins served as the National Campaign Director to Ronald Reagan in the 1984 presidential election in which Reagan won 49 states. [more here]

Side note; Mr. Rollins also served in the Ford Administration (our boy from Michigan)

• December 14, 2007 - 11:51 AM

• Huck And Chuck On Bill O'Reilly Tonight

• by Team Huckabee

• The Gov and Chuck Norris are confirmed to appear on The O'Reilly Factor tonight for a joint interview from New Hampshire. The show will air @ 8pm ET this evening... [source]

• Huckabee On "Money & Politics"
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• PETER COOK: Hi, Betty, and good morning. On the Republican side of the presidential race, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee has gone from afterthought to frontrunner in Iowa and he's surging in national polls as well. Mike Huckabee joins us now from Des Moines, Iowa to talk about his campaign, some issues important to business. Governor, good to see you again. Welcome back to Bloomberg.
  GOVERNOR MIKE HUCKABEE: Thank you very much, Peter. Pleasure to be back.
  MR. COOK: At yesterday's debate in Iowa, one of the challengers there called you the frontrunner. Are you in fact the man to be right now
  GOV. HUCKABEE: Well, I don't know if I even want to put myself there, but certainly, it's better than where I used to be. You're right. I've come from really the back of the pack - I think people are connecting with the message I'm talking about, changing our tax system. Eighty percent of the Americans are totally disgusted with it. That resonates with voters. And they want someone who's not a Washington insider, somebody who has actually been at a level of government that made it function and made it work and balanced the budget, things that families have to do, things that people want their president to do.
• MR. COOK: There are a lot of business-related issues I want to get to in the course of our interview. Let's start with one of them now that's been in the news. The Bush administration last week announcing a deal with the mortgage industry to freeze interest rates for some sub-prime borrowers. It's been criticized by some for going too far. Others say it doesn't go far enough. Do you support this plan?
• GOV. HUCKABEE: Well, it's better than have the taxpayers bail out people who made bad loans. The one thing I was so glad the Bush administration did not do is to say, okay, we're going to make it so that nobody has any harm. Look, this is a marketplace decision. People took some bad loans they shouldn't have taken. Lenders made some loans they shouldn't have done. It has to work itself out. I hope it's a lesson to people in the future; don't borrow if you can't pay it back. And it ought to be a lesson to the lenders: Be careful about loaning money to people that can't really give you your money back.
• Now, the one problem with the plan - if it freezes banks from being able to foreclose, if this trend should continue, you really do create a chilling effect on the lending industry because who's going to want to lend money if they don't have the capacity to get their asset back if there's a default on the loan. So it's a tricky area, but I thought the Bush administration played it about as well as they could. [full transcript here]

First Official TV Ad for Mike Huckabee

Chuck Norris approved.

Chuck Norris Talks More About the Greatness of Mike Huckabee

I found this over at One Mom's blog. Chuck Norris has more great things to say about Mike Huckabee. Here is some of the things he talks about in his column on World Net Daily.

• The surge is working – Huckabee's too!

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• Posted: October 29, 20071:00 a.m. Eastern

Former Gov. Mike Huck

• The surge is working.

• I said that when I was in Iraq for the second time. I also thought that this past week as I watched former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's GOP presidential popularity and political purse keep growing.

• Signs of significant increase began a month ago when Huckabee took the top position in a straw poll conducted at the Value's Voter Presidential Debate.
• Another tell-tale sign came from the Rasmussen Reports, which reported last Friday, "for the first time ever – Mike Huckabee moving into the top four among those seeking the Republican presidential nomination."

What else does Chuck Norris say about Mike Huckabee? Click here to find out about what he says about these things. Such as;
When the saints come marching in
The urge to surge?
Can America ever have victory in war again?

God Bless from the Upper Peninsula in Michigan!

Chuck Norris Likes Mike

Check this out what Chuck Norris says about Mike Huckabee. The link was originally sent to me by George Dunn and it seems to be havibng quite a bit of buzz going around.

• A short time ago, I wrote in jest about what I would do if I am elected president. Of course, that was written all in good fun.
  Like most of you, over the summer and into the fall, I've been watching, listening, studying and praying about who could lead this country as our next president.
  I won't leave you in suspense. Though Giuliani might be savvy enough to lead people, Fred Thompson wise enough to wade through the tides of politics, McCain tough enough to fight terrorism and Romney business-minded enough to grow our economy, I believe the only one who has all of the characteristics to lead America forward into the future is ex-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.

My sentiments exactly, Mr. Norris.

• Who he is (before what he can do)
  More than anything he has done or can do, however, it is first who Mike is that impresses me most.
  Part of our backward culture is reflected in the fact that we measure and value people by what they do, instead of first who they are. As a result, we nominate charisma, cast votes for articulation and repeatedly elect too many paper-thin corrupt politicians. Of course, I want a president who gets things done, but I first want one who has lived a life of integrity, commitment, truthfulness and respect. Mike is that man.

Again, I can't do much more than agree with Mr. Norris.

• Mike has also faced unique adversity, from helping a young wife endure the trials of spinal cancer to aiding the victims of hurricane Katrina as the governor of Arkansas. He has a heart for helping and will fight for the causes of average citizens. He is known for having a compassionate heart, genuinely caring for all people.
• Mike is also a respected and fearless leader, and he does not cower to the cries of any majority or minority. He doesn't abandon his values for what's expedient. Like our Founding Fathers, he's not afraid to stand up for a Creator and against secularist beliefs. At the same time, he doesn't fear offending Christian leaders who give up their values in pursuit of electing their "team leader" just like everyone else.
• A track record toward the presidency
  Mike Huckabee has already proven his ability to lead our citizens as a lieutenant governor for three years in 1993 and governor of Arkansas for the following 10 years. Time magazine called him one of the best governors in America.
  As governor, Mike led the citizens of Arkansas through difficult conditions. He balanced the budget each year, enhanced technology in commerce, was tough on crime, used tobacco lawsuit monies to better health care, initiated a toll-free hotline to report tips on government corruption and 16 times had to endure the long nights of the soul before he gave permission for executions to proceed. He also initiated the ARKids First program, cutting the number of uninsured children in half.
• The David among them
  The one question that remains is: Can Huckabee win the nomination? The presidency?
  As with the other candidates, Huckabee has, and will continue, to have his hecklers: "He hasn't raised enough money." "He'll never beat Hillary." "Our society is too prejudice and paranoid to vote for a once Baptist minister." "He'll never out-race the top four Republican candidates."
  I was thinking about these types of comments the other day when I recalled another leader in ancient times that didn't match up in the line up: King David. Seven men were poised and paraded for the position of king, but David was left in the field shepherding because he wasn't "a frontrunner in the polls." They overlooked the best because they were too busy judging by outward appearance. But God appointed David king.
  It's time to quit choosing our leaders based solely upon charisma or one strong suite, and move back to being a culture which esteems and elects its leaders because of character and qualifications. It's substance, not pizzazz, we should want in a leader. Mike Huckabee is the real deal.

Please read the full article here. This is a must read.