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Related: About this forumMike Huckabee (Still) Hasn't Ruled Out 2016 Presidential Bid
http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/post/94487/mike-huckabee-hasnt-ruled-out-2016-presidential-bid?utm_source=enews_090613&utm_medium=email&utm_content=daily-report&utm_campaign=newsletter&enews_zone=195011Former Gov. Mike Huckabee said Thursday that he has not ruled out a presidential bid in 2016.
Am I informally chatting with people, asking if they think theres any value in my taking it to another level? Im having those conversations, he said.
Arkansas Business checked in with Huckabee earlier this year, when he was mulling whether he'd return to his syndicated radio talk show (which Politico quickly followed up on). And he pretty much told us what he's telling Politico now -- that he hasn't ruled anything out:
I havent decided. I mean, its not something I have completely ruled out, but its not something Im sitting around every night at the kitchen table plotting, he said. So, Ill keep the option at least open for the next year or so and at some point would have to decide if that really was something I was going to do again. There are times I honestly think, first of all, I would have less of a platform as a candidate than I do now. ..."
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Mike Huckabee (Still) Hasn't Ruled Out 2016 Presidential Bid (Original Post)
BlueToTheBone
Sep 2013
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MADem
(135,425 posts)1. Off his diet--I suspect he won't run. He's just teasing to stay in the news. IMO. nt
Turbineguy
(38,448 posts)2. Well, he's certainly
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dumb enough to satisfy the republican base. I figure he's in with a chance.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)3. Mike Huckabee, Peter King, who's next
They're piling into the car already.
gopiscrap
(24,204 posts)4. Huckabee would be toast before he even started
all you gotta do is look into the case of Maurice Clemons the guy who shot the four cops I n Lakewood WA Huckabee was on the take in this guys parole...he went to WA and then killed the 4 cops in a coffee shop early one Sunday morning.