Last night Mike Huckabee, on his Fox News show, announced he would not run for President in 2012. We are still waiting on Mitch Daniels the governor of Indiana.
RUN MITCH, RUN!
April 6, 2011 post with updates:
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1.Tim Pawlenty Yes, the former Governor of Minnesota has impressed me in the last couple of weeks. He has a blue collar background and is Conservative and has the ability to come across as a nice guy. He has no major liability's and can unite the various factions of the Republican party. His drawback of lack of name familiarity will change as the campaign goes on.UPDATE 3 : Trump the "joker" will not run !
2. Mitch Daniels The current Governor of Indiana. Daniels is a budget hawk and is very qualified to be President.If there was ever a time for a budget hawk it is now. He has done a great job in Indiana and is very plain spoken. His drawbacks are he may not want it enough and his wife may not want the spotlight of a Presidential campaign. Daniels could very well be my first choice if he runs.
UPDATE: Still Waiting on Mitch!
3. Mitt Romney I like Mitt Romney a lot. He looks Presidential and has great executive experience in helping troubled business and America is in trouble. I don't care if he is a Mormon (LDS) but a lot of people do and the Massachusetts health care law is an albatross around his neck. He is more liberal than I am and large sections of the Republican base may not accept him.
UPDATE: His speech on health care last week did not help. He has a reputation, fair or not, as a flip flopper and thus he has to defend the law on health care he helped pass when he was Governor of Massachusetts. He has put himself in a box. I don't think he can get out of it. If he repudiats the law he will be accused of being a flip flopper. If, he stands by it, as he is, he runs against the grain of the Republican Party and many indepedants. I predidt now, he is NOT going to get the nomination, and he was my first choice in 2008 ! Politics is not fair!
4.Mike Huckabee I like his ability to disagree but not be disagreeable. I have watched many of his shows on Fox News and he is a very likable guy. He is more conservative on social issues than I and less conservative on economic issues. While social conservatives like him the National Review conservatives can't stand him. There is also some concern that he doesn't have the "fire in the belly" that he had in 2008.
UPDATE: Gone, I was right he does not have "fire in the belly."
5. Sara Palin I love Sara but she can't win. I am bothered she quite as Governor of Alaska before her term was up and she is a "turn off" to independents who we need to win. I am also bothered that she is more interested in publicity then governing.The high pitch of her voice sends a shiver down my back. Margaret Thatcher had Lawrence Olivier work on her voice to lower it. Yes, Olivier was a Conservative party member.
6. Newt Gingrich The former Speaker of the House is very bright and very undisciplined. He has 100 ideas an hour and 5 of them are good. He is not trusted by the party and has personal baggage. We already have a professor as President and it has not worked out. In spite of all of the above I like Newt and in a crises he could be our Winston Churchill. Has no chance.
UPDATE: Attacking the Republicans in the House is no way to get the nomination. Big mistake! I repeat he has no chance. Sometimes I think some of these candidates are angling more for Fox News show than the nomination
7. Haley Barbour Former lobbyist with a southern drawl. No chance.
UPDATE : Gone !
8. Michele Bachman Congresswoman from Minnesota needs more seasoning.
Also Ran:
Ron Paul, Jon Huntsman, Herman Cain
The Future and VP Candidate: Marco Rubio.... Freshman Senator from Florida has Reagan's way of describing the American Dream !
The Joker is Wild:
Donald Trump !!!!!!
