Huckabee not running

2012 Elections, National, Politics 1 Minute

“My heart says no,” said former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee on his show last night. The Republican field is getting more narrow all the time.

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3 thoughts on “Huckabee not running”

  1. I thought some of his comments in choosing not to run were interesting, talking about the takeover of the Republican Party by a doctrinaire libertarian philosophy.

  2. Interesting take on this by NYT columnist Ross Douthat:

    He’ll be missed because he embodied a political persuasion that’s common in American life but rare in America’s political class. This worldview mixes cultural conservatism with economic populism: it’s tax-sensitive without being stridently antigovernment, skeptical of Wall Street as well as Washington, and as concerned about immigration, family breakdown and public morals as it is about the debt ceiling.

  3. Ross Douthat, ugg, as insufferable as Bill Bennett and Peggy Noonan. Though not as consistently so, I’ll give him that.

    And social crisis, really? If only more Republicans were concerned about repairing the damage to the traditional household. Will someone please think of the children?

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