Yup. He did. And you can’t tell me that it isn’t expected.
Maybe somebody should tell Huckabee that he’s running for President of the United States, not President of the Southern Baptist Convention.
From Beliefnet:
QUESTION: Is it your goal to bring the Constitution into strict conformity with the Bible? Some people would consider that a kind of [...]

He may be a likable guy, but he has been saying all the wrong things lately.
From Raw Story:
The United States Constitution never uses the word “God” or makes mention of any religion, drawing its sole authority from “We the People.” However, Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee thinks it’s time to put an end to that.
“I [...]

Looks like he’ll pull 39% to McCain’s 30%. Huckabee pulled in a relatively strong 3rd at 16% considering the lack of evangelical support in Michigan. Ron Paul is pulling in 4th right now with 6%, with Thompson running a close 5th with 4%.
From The Detriot News:
Mitt Romney won a crucial victory in Tuesday’s Michigan Republican [...]

His numbers are awful against Obama or Hillary in a national race. Both would beat him handily by double digits.
As Michael Medved points out…
In the head-to-head contest with Barack Obama he is utterly wiped out, losing by a margin of 22 points (59% to 37%). Against Hillary Clinton, Romney fares little better, falling 18 percentage [...]

So last night, outside of a voting location in Manchester, New Hampshire, I ran into Mike Huckabee. Well… one of his supporters had built a peddle car, and brought it to the voting location. Huckabee took it for a little spin.
I also asked the governor why young voters should want him to be president. Then, [...]

And that’s not a good thing for his campaign.
From Washington Post:
WINDHAM, N.H., Jan. 6 — A pastor from Texas was scheduled to deliver the sermon Sunday at a church here called the Crossing.
But instead this small evangelical congregation heard from a different special guest: Baptist minister and 2008 presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, who delivered a [...]

That’s the word on the Corner.

It’s telling how many of the candidates are saying the word “change” today.
Barack obviously owns the word since he talked about it first. He understood this zeitgeist sooner than everybody else. Huckabee also says it and stands for a real change within the Republican party, definitely moreso than Barack would for the Democratic party. [...]

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9:00: Reminder, Dems: Obama, Edwards, Clinton; GOP: Huckabee, Romney, Thompson/McCain/Paul
9:09: Andrea Mitchell calls it a “remarkably bad outcome for Hillary”
9:10: Matthews says the Clinton comeback begins now.
9:11: John Edwards is making an appearance, smiling; [...]

There’s no way I’m calling it this early, but that’s what CNN is reporting. Huck is about 10% ahead of Romney, and that’s because 60% of the GOP voters who came out tonight were evangelicals. Big, big night for Huckabee and a big disappointment for Romney.
Surprise of the night? Fred Thompson, followed closely by McCain [...]

I think it’s actually realistic. Here’s why…
Romney and Huckabee have 1st and 2nd locked up. The order in which they’ll finish is still up in the air, but I have a feeling that Huckabee could grab 1st because people just don’t seem to like Romney that much. Still, he has spent a ton of money [...]

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Fact 1:
After a weekend of endless assaults on him by the Romney campaign, Huckabee took time to film and (potentially) briefly air attack ads on Romney, before pulling it in a strange series of events. Huckabee also spent the weekend calling Romney basically a liar. Take this excerpt from Meet the Press:
MR. RUSSERT: [...]

This is the last poll before the caucus and it is historically very accurate. That doesn’t mean it will ultimately prove to be dead on, but it’s still VERY good news for his campaign. This is fantastic momentum going into January 3rd and everybody knows it.
From the DMR:
Obama was the choice of 32 percent of [...]

What Huckabee pulled today was not only hilariously and woefully transparent, it also made him appear worse than the guy he was trying to smear.
From NY Times:
Mike Huckabee is holding a press conference right now in which he was supposed to unveil a new negative ad against arch rival Mitt Romney. But Mr. Huckabee came [...]

Recently, Barack and Hillary were tied and Huckabee led Romney. Well, things have changed, at least according to one poll.
From CNN:
In the new ARG survey, conducted December 20-23, she leads the Illinois senator by 15 percentage points, 34 to 19 percent. Obama is now in a statistical tie for second place with John Edwards, who [...]

Because he’s not a true fiscal conservative? Because he talks about the Christian God too much? Because he’s not too versed in the ways of foreign policy?
And yet they liked and still like Bush?
From Rod Dreher:
They’re panicking because a) Huckabee is a wild card who could lose massively in the general election; b) Huckabee doesn’t [...]

A new poll has him tying with Rudy.
From Reuters:
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Mike Huckabee has surged into a virtual tie with front-runner Rudy Giuliani in the national 2008 Republican presidential race two weeks before the first contest, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.
Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas whose campaign has caught [...]

Yesterday, the press was given an article where Huckabee was interviewed about his foreign policy views, and his tone towards Bush is, well, ballsy to say the least.
What’s more, I think this is significant turning point in his campaign. I’ll explain why after some AP reportage…
Huckaboom:
“American foreign policy needs to change its tone and [...]

I don’t usually post about spin doctors, but this is different.
You see, a certain Arkansas governor succeeded in ‘92 because he had a very skilled campaign guru by the name of James Carville on his side. Obviously it wasn’t the only reason, but it was a big one. And now another Arkansas governor has his [...]