Mike Huckabee On Possible 2012 Run: Tune In Tomorrow

WASHINGTON – Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee kept the political world guessing Friday as to whether he’ll run for president, saying that anyone who claims to know what he’s decided and plans to announce on Saturday is speaking out of turn.

“You’re gonna hear people who act like they know all about it and they don’t,” Huckabee said during an interview with Fox News’ Neil Cavuto.

Huckabee’s comments followed those of Ed Rollins, a close adviser who was quoted in The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal earlier Friday as saying Huckabee won’t run. Rollins said Huckabee’s family has been advising him not to run for the last two weeks and the former governor is unlikely to pursue a bid.

But Huckabee said that he had not even told all the members of his family until Friday. He will announce his decision during his weekly television show, which airs on Fox News at 8 p.m. ET on Saturday. Fox has reportedly been pressuring Huckabee to make a decision one way or the other and clear up any legal concerns about him using his show to promote a political candidacy.

Huckabee, a fierce rival of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, also weighed in on the speech Romney delivered Thursday trying to defuse criticism of the health care law he signed into law in 2006.

“I’m not sure that he succeeded in explaining it,” Huckabee said, citing a Wall Street Journal editorial that he said “took [Romney] apart.”

“I felt that if Mitt Romney would come out and say, ‘We tried this in Massachusetts. That’s what states are supposed to do, is be laboratories of democracy. And we attempted this and it hasn’t really worked like we thought. So it’s not a good idea to try it on the national level,’ that would have been a smart play,” he said.

“It’s not what he did. It’s going to be something he’ll have to deal with. He could have ended it yesterday. Now he’s going to be dealing with it in every debate,” Huckabee added.

Huckabee said at the conclusion of his interview with Cavuto that he would announce his decision at the end of his own hourlong show.

 

 

Comments

[JDZSB]

04:40 PM on 05/16/2011

Huckabee is popular as both a politician and as a person, and if you watch his weekly show, you will gain insight into how he thinks and his personal value system, which is conservative and very much consistent with traditional American values. My guess is that he is not done with politics and could still be a factor in 2012 as a potential vice presidential candidate. Stranger things have happened.

[rustysc]

05:25 PM on 05/15/2011

Save yourself the embarrassment of losing, Mickey.

[PerotVentuSheehCarte]

04:28 AM on 05/15/2011

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give it up media we are on to your lies

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[Dukakis2012]

11:14 PM on 05/14/2011

How is that Fox News can have so many opinion shows with prominent conservative politicians and get away with the slogan, "Fair and Balanced?"

[Republicanistan]

11:02 PM on 05/14/2011

I think we should invade Baggerstan and defeat the Tealiban!

WHO"S WITH ME???!

[Dick Stone]

09:16 PM on 05/14/2011

Why would anyone want the job of being President? It doesn't pay well, you have no personal life, and at least half of the population will always hate you. That is why it is very rare to get the correct person into that office and we certainly do not have the correct person in that office now, and haven't elected the correct person in a very long time. Good choice Huckabee make some money and enjoy your life.

[aearthling59]

07:03 PM on 05/14/2011

.....not a chance Rev. Huckabee.

[enigma2]

11:29 PM on 05/14/2011

I guess one could say he saw the light, tee hee.

[VonMarco]

06:22 PM on 05/14/2011

Huck..the Huckster! Minister? Give me a break! Believe this...teapubs...the devil can do everything GOD can EXCEPT save your Soul. When one sells his soul, they can have money, worldly prestige, heaven on earth, etc. However, eternal damnation is forever! This is what Jesus said.....another thing, beware of false prophets and speakers!

[DRaymond]

06:11 PM on 05/14/2011

I think that the fact that he is announcing it at the end of his own show is a giveaway that he isn't going to run, or at least isn't actually going to announce anything more than taking a leave of absence.

Think of it.  Fox made others end their contract as soon as they got serious about campaigning. 

FCC rules say that FOX cannot provide air time to one candidate at a cheaper rate than it gives air time to other candidates.  The moment Huck begins to say "I'm a candidate" Fox begins providing air time to a candidate for free.  (There is an exception for news coverage but Huck talking about himself on his own show is not news coverage.)  If Fox let Huck turn let's say the last minute of his show into essentially a free televised campaign speech every other candidate will be allowed to purchase time at the best rate that has been given to a competitor...in other words free.  Fox is NOT going to let Huck do that.

[CraigVale]

06:03 PM on 05/14/2011

I muse at this guys arrogance . Does he really think America is glued to their TV sets waiting for him to say something ? My goodness, what a misguided sense of self worth !

[Birdbone]

05:19 PM on 05/14/2011

"I'll be your Huckleberry" 2012!

[ljc]

04:26 PM on 05/14/2011

Didn't he misuse State funds for personal use ? Didn't he destroy all the hard drives on the Governor's computers?

The man is a phoney

[donnie-cheesehead]

04:31 PM on 05/14/2011

Plus, how does he explain his complicity in 5 killings
because of his God Awful judgment ?
Four Cops and a Female relative of the Clintons that
was raped and then murdered ...

[WhereSheStops]

03:42 PM on 05/14/2011

please no please no please no please no please no please no please no please no please no please no please no please no please no please no please no please no please no please no please no please no please no please no please no please no please no please no please no please no

[schrodster]

05:07 PM on 05/14/2011

I'll mark you down as undecided

[WhereSheStops]

05:21 PM on 05/14/2011

rofl

[Tom Sito]

03:21 PM on 05/14/2011

A media clown who called The President a Mau-Mau madrassah terrorist while still claiming he's a religious person. Another joke candidate. Romney will win the nomination because the Republican Power establishment always votes like they're told, and it's Romney's turn.

[rggirt]

03:12 PM on 05/14/2011

Folks, all these "moderate" Republicans are a waste of time, on same low ditch level like "food stamp Obama". Donald Trump is the only one who can bring our shattered and destroyed country back from its present welfare state status. Why are we so concerned with the uneducated and unproductive part of America? Trup is an accomplished doer who has no obligation to our welfare low class unproductive fringe, all Democrats, all worthless. Lets get Trump in as our next President!!

[johnblack53]

03:18 PM on 05/14/2011

A man who has filed for bankruptcy 3 times is hardly who we need to be president of the United States. And just who was it that shattered and destroyed this country in the first place? Certainly not President Obama. And anybody who is foolish enough to support Donald Trump for president should never try calling anybody uneducated and unproductive. And just like you your post is worthless.

[miriamfl]

03:53 PM on 05/14/2011

x2

[johnblack53]

04:24 PM on 05/14/2011

A bankruptcy is a bankruptcy period. This man has three of them. If President Obama had three bankruptcies on his record you conservatives would be squealing like pigs. And why is it that conservatives like you seem to have a problem admitting that GM was a success? If this is your warped idea of welfare then we need more welfare like this. It was announced earlier this week that GM would be expanding nationally and approximately 40,000 jobs will be created. And as a personal preference I prefer people who are a success other than loser like Trump who fail and then file bankruptcy. And this President being a community organizer might be why he is able to reach out to so many people unlike your new idol Trump who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. And I like educated people too but education ain't worth a damn if you don't have common sense to go with it.

[rggirt]

03:33 PM on 05/14/2011

Really? I thought Trump went to Wharton Business School and built a real estate empire?? I also thought that bankruptcy was a federally codofied business option, or is that only for Obama Gen. Motors welfare (union) recipients advantage. It's a personal preference, but I like educated and productive people, not community activist beggars. If you lthe latter, that's a legitimate choice.

[johnblack53]

03:53 PM on 05/14/2011

You are one clueless person period. A bankruptcy is a bankruptcy no matter what. If President Obama had three bankruptcies on his record you conservatives would be squealing like pigs. And why is it that conservatives like you can't see that GM was a success? And if this is your idea of welfare then we need plenty more of it. This welfare created jobs and still is today. It was announced just this week that they are expanding here in this country and that 40,000 more jobs will be created. Now that's the kind of welfare we need. And as a personal preference I like people who get results not loser who quit and file bankruptcy like this loser Trump. And for a community organizer President Obama sure has come a long way Could it be because being a community organizer he was able to see first hand just how people who are not rich are struggling to make it? What would your idol Trump who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth know about that?

[ladybugmagic]

05:25 PM on 05/14/2011

You are such a joke.