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Huckabee Dumps Fox News -- Might Jump in to the Race for 2016
According to a statement on his web site, tonight will be Mike Huckabee's last show on Fox where he has held forth on Saturday night for more than six years. Apparently he is thinking seriously about getting into the GOP race for president. If he runs, it will be in part because he has a good chance of being the Christian Right's preferred candidate. He has certainly been paying his dues -- working in the trenches of the Christian Right for many years, as a headliner at many of the Pastor Policy Briefings organized by David Lane of the American Family Association and at the annual Values Voters Summit organized by the Family Research Council -- and several major organizations of the Christian Right. |
Gov. Huckabee Departs Fox News, Will Make Decision On '16 Campaign By Late Spring
Jan 03 2015
Huckabee: "As much as I have loved doing the show, I cannot bring myself to rule out another Presidential run."
Little Rock - Governor Mike Huckabee will announce tonight on his Fox News show that he is leaving the network after six-and-a-half years as the host of "Huckabee." To close out his final show, Gov. Huckabee said:
"Tonight I will do more than just say goodnight. I will say goodbye. This is the last edition of 'Huckabee' on the Fox News Channel. It's been the ride of a lifetime, and I have never had so much fun in my life. But I also realize that God hasn't put me on earth just to have a good time or to make a good living, but rather has put me on earth to try to make a good life.
"There has been a great deal of speculation as to whether I would run for President. If I were willing to absolutely rule that out, I could keep doing this show. But I can't make such a declaration. I won't make a decision about running until late in the spring of 2015, but the continued chatter has put Fox News into a position that is not fair to them nor is it possible for me to openly determine political and financial support to justify a race. The honorable thing to do at this point is to end my tenure here at Fox. As much as I have loved doing the show, I cannot bring myself to rule out another Presidential run. So as we say in television, stay tuned!"
In 2008, he did surprisingly well. He decisively won, for example, the Iowa caucuses over Mitt Romney et al. But he had money problems and couldn't sustain his campaign over time, the shocker in Iowa not withstanding.
Although the goofy conventional wisdom was in deep denial about it, Huckabee picked-up almost all of the Christian Right endorsements worth having. Among the few who endorsed others (Pat Robertson endorsed Guiliani), the late Christian Right strategist Paul Weyrich acknowledged that he had been wrong, and that they had blown it by chasing after better known candidates (in his case, Romney) -- when Huckabee was the real deal. |
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