Coming soon: Huckabee touts mystery announcement; Update: “New political entity”?
posted at 2:30 pm on April 9, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Prime fodder for a slow news day. The countdown clock points to April 15, which means smart money is on something having to do with the Fair Tax, but NBC notes that he’s giving a speech that night at Cornell on religion. Any guesses? I’m thinking a remake of “Voyagers” with Chuck Norris as Phineas and Huck in the Meeno Peluce role. Or, just possibly, the unveiling of a new PAC.
Exit question: Is he really going to make taxes the cornerstone of Huckabee 2.0? It’s red meat, but at this moment in time just sort of … random.
Update: Headlines comments imported!
Update: His daughter told NBC that the countdown had to do with a website redesign. It’s a little more ambitious than that:
Mike Huckabee will hold a conference call with supporters tomorrow night to discuss his plans for a new political entity and to assure them that he plans to keep an active presence in this campaign and in future cycles, according to an aide.
He’ll be joined on the call by Steve Strang, a Christian publisher and Huckabee backer whose magazine, “Charisma,” just ran a very flattering cover piece on the former candidate that touts his future prospects.
“You will hear insider information about Huckabee’s scrappy campaign that surprised the nation and stunned Republican Party elites,” promises Strang in an email to Huckabee backers. “The ‘preacher who dared to be president’ will also discuss his plans for the future and reflect on the changing state of the conservative movement.”
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Hannibal Smith on April 9, 2008 at 1:54 PM
No. Please. Just. Go. Away.
Brat on April 9, 2008 at 1:55 PM
wtf?
Jimmy the Dhimmi on April 9, 2008 at 1:55 PM
I’m scared…
JetBoy on April 9, 2008 at 1:56 PM
Mike Huckabee is stalking the voters.
EJDolbow on April 9, 2008 at 1:57 PM
Ah crap
Zetterson on April 9, 2008 at 1:58 PM
What, he sitting on an egg?
RushBaby on April 9, 2008 at 1:59 PM
huckabee, please, just GO AWAY!
JustTruth101 on April 9, 2008 at 1:59 PM
That yellow star with the thin rules (lines) beside it reminds me of something…
http://store.johnmccain.com/
Brat on April 9, 2008 at 2:00 PM
I’m guessing creation of a PAC.
Slublog on April 9, 2008 at 2:00 PM
Sounds like ol’ Mikey has some insider info on the the rapture. Repent! Repent!
SpencerFan on April 9, 2008 at 2:00 PM
McCain wouldn’t. He couldn’t. Noooo way.
JetBoy on April 9, 2008 at 2:01 PM
Actually, the font he’s using is the same as McCain’s.
Please…no…
Slublog on April 9, 2008 at 2:01 PM
But seriously, let’s hope it’s not a third party run.
SpencerFan on April 9, 2008 at 2:01 PM
Actually, I still think he’s just launching a new site and a PAC.
Here’s MSNBC: What’s Mike Huckabee up to?
Slublog on April 9, 2008 at 2:03 PM
Or THIS might explain it…
JetBoy on April 9, 2008 at 2:04 PM
he should’ve ran for Senate in Arkansas
jp on April 9, 2008 at 2:05 PM
Lest there be any doubt….
Mr. Huckabee, we still can’t stand you.
Nessuno on April 9, 2008 at 2:06 PM
Dear God,
Whatever he’s doing, please stop it.
respectfully,
Splashman on April 9, 2008 at 2:06 PM
TV show? Sunday mornings right after or competing against Joel Osteen?
Brat on April 9, 2008 at 2:08 PM
Go away, Gomer Pyle.
amerpundit on April 9, 2008 at 2:08 PM
Go away, you annoying populist.
MarkoMancuso on April 9, 2008 at 2:12 PM
No, no, no….Fred Thompson is visiting GOP nominee John McCain at McCain’s Arizona cabin in Sedona this weekend.
Sweet, sweet, dreams! :D
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/04/05/863020.aspx
ihasurnominashun on April 9, 2008 at 2:17 PM
Come on guys, it’s more Fairtax nonsense. Why else launch it on April 15?
steadyrock on April 9, 2008 at 2:20 PM
I hope it is a reality TV show.
Seriously though, that looks like McCain’s logo underneath the countdown. Huck will probably be put in charge of that “committee of 50″ or whatever.
Huck’s got the self promoting skills.
ninjapirate on April 9, 2008 at 2:21 PM
Screw that populist idiot…
TheGoblinKing on April 9, 2008 at 2:23 PM
You are probably right. I like the idea but I don’t think it will ever happen.
Brat on April 9, 2008 at 2:23 PM
Dude, go away.
Geronimo on April 9, 2008 at 2:24 PM
The Fair Tax is a new Welfare program, so no wonder Communist Pastor Mike likes it.
PrezHussein on April 9, 2008 at 2:28 PM
Let’s hope it’s a radio or TV show who’s station/channel we can swiftly change.
macummings on April 9, 2008 at 2:29 PM
Hah! I was going to post on the headline that they did it to hook you. I was right.
Connie on April 9, 2008 at 2:32 PM
He’s announcing he’s signing the petition to endore Mitt as Veep.
Naw…probably not.
Sarjex on April 9, 2008 at 2:32 PM
Good lord! This guy is like stepping in dog crap . . . you can’t get it all off your shoe.
rplat on April 9, 2008 at 2:34 PM
I am not even clicking the links like I usually do because my level of interest in Huck-a-Bye (tip o’ the hat to Bill Shultz) is less than zero if that is possible.
HawaiiLwyr on April 9, 2008 at 2:34 PM
It’s rapture. He is giving us the heads-up.
Limerick on April 9, 2008 at 2:34 PM
I read somewhere that his daughter said it was just counting down to a site redesign.
Complete7 on April 9, 2008 at 2:35 PM
Brat on April 9, 2008 at 2:36 PM
My bets are on, A) A PAC-type goup, or B) As one commenter suggested, perhaps leading McCain’s Christian outreach committee?
BTW, when you imported the comments, you imported my trackback, too. I haven’t been able to get one of those through in a month+
amerpundit on April 9, 2008 at 2:38 PM
Is Huckabee putting his ascendancy into heaven on YouTube?
NoDonkey on April 9, 2008 at 2:40 PM
That would pretty funny if he doesn’t really have any announcement except for a new website design or something little.
From Huck’s Army forum.
http://forum.hucksarmy.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=11991&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=45
ninjapirate on April 9, 2008 at 2:40 PM
That the Lord has chosen him to revile a few new additions to the ten commandments?
MB4 on April 9, 2008 at 2:41 PM
NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO to McCain-Huckabee!!!
Whatever happened to McCain-Geller?
HotAirJosef on April 9, 2008 at 2:41 PM
Is he converting to Mormonism?
TexasJew on April 9, 2008 at 2:41 PM
No, no. This is the best one:
http://www.despair.com/mis24×30prin.html
lorien1973 on April 9, 2008 at 2:41 PM
He’s going to answer a pertinent question:
Why did you quit your day job?
-God
Can’t remember where I first read that, so, sorry for the plagiarism.
jrl on April 9, 2008 at 2:45 PM
DO. NOT. WANT.
John_Locke on April 9, 2008 at 2:45 PM
You are so not old enough to remember Voyagers!
Tanya on April 9, 2008 at 2:45 PM
Doomsday clock! It’s the Rapture! The End Times are at hand! Repent sinnahs, the End Times are upon us!
doubleplusundead on April 9, 2008 at 2:48 PM
My guess is he stayed in purely to demonstrate his pull with the evangelical vote, and after being summarily dissed by McCain for veep, will form an ‘evangelical’ PAC to “advance” conservative issues that have been ignored by this nominee, and “explore” possibility of third party run.
He wants respect, was ‘putdown’ by McCain, and this will get it. He will invoke a ‘religious’ mantle on this……..
Huck thinks it is destiny…….
Starlink on April 9, 2008 at 2:48 PM
I’m really full of shit. Sorry to have led you think otherwise.
freevillage on April 9, 2008 at 2:48 PM
That was great. I signed up for your newsletter by the way.
Geronimo on April 9, 2008 at 2:49 PM
Is he finally coming out of the closet?
FloatingRock on April 9, 2008 at 2:50 PM
I got an email invitation to a conference call with Mike tomorrow at 8pm EST. The topic is “Christians and the New Political Reality”
cameron on April 9, 2008 at 2:50 PM
He’s replacing Slash as the bass player for Guns ‘n Roses. At least the visual for that completely cracks me up.
ErikTheRed on April 9, 2008 at 2:50 PM
He will proclaim himself Pope of the Southern Baptists?
Just A Grunt on April 9, 2008 at 2:51 PM
He’s starting a new Cult. This time its not based around a run for the Presidency, but he is going to create a real HuckArmy.
PrezHussein on April 9, 2008 at 2:51 PM
Ahhh, Voyagers. I remember that. Mostly ’cause of the guy who played Phineas. Yummm. Didn’t he kill himself with a blank round from a gun? “All meat, and no potatoes” defined.
dish on April 9, 2008 at 2:52 PM
slash was the guitarist
aclark on April 9, 2008 at 2:53 PM
It’s amazing how a website page that says, “coming soon” can compel such animosity. Sheesh.
medguy on April 9, 2008 at 2:53 PM
Mike Huckabee damaged the Republican Party.
He needs to go away and stay away.
EJDolbow on April 9, 2008 at 2:55 PM
You give the web page far too much credit. It’s Huckabee himself that has generated so much animosity.
FloatingRock on April 9, 2008 at 2:55 PM
It’s most likely a new PAC if it is what I think it is.
bj1126 on April 9, 2008 at 2:57 PM
EJDolbow on April 9, 2008 at 2:55 PM
Maybe, maybe not. That is a subjective value judgment that can neither be confirmed nor denied.
But, one thing is for certain: I thought conservative not only supported, but advocated, divesrity of ideas in the public arena. So why are some many self-proclaimed conservatives suggesting that “[h]e needs to go away and stay away?”
medguy on April 9, 2008 at 2:57 PM
Does this mean the old MikeHuckabee.com has disappeared into the ether?
Cuffy Meigs on April 9, 2008 at 2:59 PM
Perfect photoshop opportunity. 6 days, 6 hours, 6 minutes. We could send to the Ventura to add to his theories.
Limerick on April 9, 2008 at 2:59 PM
I don’t like Huckabee, at all. But he had every right to run.
The entire field was weak, for one reason or another. Same could be said of the Dem’s. So there was room created for the next caretaker President, McCain. When the population changes, one way or another, the political results will change.
JiangxiDad on April 9, 2008 at 3:02 PM
Oh, it can indeed be confirmed – Huckabee gave us McCain and that has already and will continue to damage the Republican party (unless McCain loses, then we might recover).
The reason he needs to go away is because he is attaching himself like a sucker to this party.
If he wants to split and start the Party of Pastors, that would be great.
EJDolbow on April 9, 2008 at 3:03 PM
He’s announcing the opening of his new national franchise of Huckaschmuck Donut Shops, and needs the extra time beforehand to round up the four known people in the country who actually give a damn about this.
pilamaye on April 9, 2008 at 3:03 PM
Huckabee who?
MadisonConservative on April 9, 2008 at 3:04 PM
I did not say he didn’t have the right to run. But now that he has been soundly rejected by the vast majority of those in the party he needs to man up and move on.
EJDolbow on April 9, 2008 at 3:05 PM
I agree.
BTW, that star has nothing to do with McCain. Check out the graphic dividing the blog entries here:
http://www.mikehuckabee.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=Blogs.Home
ninjapirate on April 9, 2008 at 3:06 PM
Mrs. Huckabee to become NutriSystem spokeswoman.
jake-the-goose on April 9, 2008 at 3:07 PM
Again, he`s annoying the hell out of me. It was his “poor kid with a chip on his shoulder, sticking it to the rich kid” attacks on Romney. Then it was his stubborn staying in the race even though he had NO chance in terms of the math.
Now it`s this stunt……….I`m done with you sir.
ThePrez on April 9, 2008 at 3:08 PM
He is going to Ayatollah College with Mookie.
BL@KBIRD on April 9, 2008 at 3:09 PM
EJDolbow on April 9, 2008 at 3:03 PM
It simply is ridiculous to blame Huckabee for causing the emergence of a nominee that you happen not to like. Huckabee earned the votes that he got, and he did so as fairly as any other candidate. That your preferred candidate could not win, if it is any one person’s fault, can only be the candidate’s own.
Again, diversity of ideas, though a bedrock principle of Conservatism, seems only to be supported by many conservatives so long as those ideas (or candidates) they happen not to like are not successful among the greater public.
medguy on April 9, 2008 at 3:10 PM
Man, that’s the most obscure pop culture reference this site has ever seen. But keeping with the theme of that program, what if the announcement is that Huckabee has invented a time machine? He could go back to August 1969, break Tom Seaver’s arm and BAM, the Cubs win the pennant!
radjah shelduck on April 9, 2008 at 3:13 PM
Wow I walk away to do a few things and come back to this?!?!
I am actually shaking from the Huck-a-messiah! It is like the rising of Christ… yet gone bad!
upinak on April 9, 2008 at 3:15 PM
EJDolbow on April 9, 2008 at 3:05 PM
He has not been soundly rejected. In fact an objective observer (whether he loved or hated Huckabee) would have to concede that he ran a fairly successful campaign. I mean, part of the evidence of that fact is the contempt that this website keeps throwing his way any chance it gets (viz. this very thread). Riddle me this: When was the last Duncan Hunter, Sam Brownback, or Tommy Thompson thread?
medguy on April 9, 2008 at 3:19 PM
I guess he is turning Muslim…he is having an operation, Michelle Huckabee please…he is giving all the money he raised to charity…he is starting a church where he will not accept tithing…he alone is going to slay the evil one–McCain…he is changing is last name to McAble, so he can run on the ticket McCain and McAble…he is announcing a new hip hop record…he is going to be on “Dancing with the Stars”…”Wright is a bro, leave him alone”…he is supporting Obama, the only other Christian(?) running…he is going to take some geography and economic classes for next election…or maybe it is just plain “thanks for the money suckers…”
right2bright on April 9, 2008 at 3:28 PM
He’s informally announcing the start of the “Huckabee 2012″ presidential campaign. It won’t be in so many words, but he’s looking to get out in front as the Official Republican Party Spokesperson/Leader of the evengelical and/or flat tax supporting wing of the party, so he’ll have a base to raise funds with and then to run on in the next election cycle.
jon1979 on April 9, 2008 at 3:30 PM
But, one thing is for certain: I thought conservative not only supported, but advocated, divesrity of ideas in the public arena. So why are some many self-proclaimed conservatives suggesting that “[h]e needs to go away and stay away?”
medguy
Because his “ideas” have been put to task, and have been found to be utterly lacking of anything resembling intelligence.
Granted, I’m a self-proclaimed Conservative who believes in the Arena of Ideas. But the idea of an arena implies that there will be winners and losers.
jrl on April 9, 2008 at 3:31 PM
Or even Fred Thompson…
right2bright on April 9, 2008 at 3:32 PM
Because his “ideas” have been put to task, and have been found to be utterly lacking of anything resembling intelligence.
I don’t think this is a fair analysis. Does the fact that Mitt Romney did not secure the nomination, for example, mean that his ideas have been “put to task” and have been found to be “utterly lacking of anything resembling intelligence?” If so, why are so many floating his name for VP and for 2012? This, however, is not even my point.
Granted, I’m a self-proclaimed Conservative who believes in the Arena of Ideas. But the idea of an arena implies that there will be winners and losers.
The idea of an arena, though implying winners and losers, does not imply that upon losing one is no longer allowed in the arena. Ronald Reagan comes to mind here.
medguy on April 9, 2008 at 3:38 PM
Obviously you don’t get it…we listen to ideas, it doesn’t mean we accept all ideas…get it?
If an idea is wrong, you want conservatives to embrace it because it is different or “diverse”. We allow ideas to be presented, unlike the liberals, and then we make a decision to accept or discard. We listened to Huck, and now we want to discard him, he is worthless (his ideas).
So, if some guy wants to set up a monument to worship the God of Uranus…you see that as a diverse idea, a new way of using state money, so you accept it because you embrace diversity…ok, the line for you starts on the far left.
I say he is nuts, and you would call me closed minded…ok, don’t be a conservative, you have to make choices and you are not up to it.
right2bright on April 9, 2008 at 3:40 PM
What an obscure reference.
BohicaTwentyTwo on April 9, 2008 at 3:42 PM
He’s doing what Edwards, and McCain did. Establishing a PAC so he can pull in dollars to keep his campaign staff on payroll till he can run again. Ugh!
a capella on April 9, 2008 at 3:45 PM
Yes, Mitts ideas and standards were lacking (although not his money). VP, because that is mainly a “profile” job, bring in a few votes, do a little dance, don’t make any major gaffs…when was the last time a VP made policy? They are figure heads, they sometimes take the first political bullet.
No one said “utterly lacking”, a bit of an overstatement? He was lacking in personality, charisma, consistency, honesty, integrity, conservatism, not devoid, but lacking–he didn’t measure up. So we made a decision, something you have to wrestle with apparently.
right2bright on April 9, 2008 at 3:45 PM
The idea of an arena, though implying winners and losers, does not imply that upon losing one is no longer allowed in the arena. Ronald Reagan comes to mind here.
medguy
You may certainly try.
Just wondering: If something isn’t even your point, why do you even bring it up?
jrl on April 9, 2008 at 3:46 PM
walker-bee, Texas ranger….
blatantblue on April 9, 2008 at 3:46 PM
Probably the most helpful thing he could do at this point is endorse Obama.
Blacklake on April 9, 2008 at 3:50 PM
right2bright on April 9, 2008 at 3:40 PM
First, I never even came close to suggesting that you had to accept all ideas. I never said that if you think an idea is wrong, that you nevertheless should accept it out of a commitment to diversity. What I object to is these type of statements, which is a direct quote: “huckabee, please, just GO AWAY!”.
If it was merely the ideas being objected to here, one could 1) reject his ideas, and 2) argue why others should too. That’s what the arena is all about, after all. But when one effectively says to the other team, “please get off the court and don’t come back,” one has moved past a mere rejection of ideas.
medguy on April 9, 2008 at 3:58 PM
90+ posts and no water carriers for Mikey spotted.
Skinner rubs his eyes in disbelief…
They feel the love, or they bolted because they know it’s about the Rapture.
SkinnerVic on April 9, 2008 at 3:58 PM
Meh…I think he’s just going to endorse Pepsi, over Coke.
DngrMse on April 9, 2008 at 4:03 PM
Good LORD, this is awesome!
Mike Huckabee is the next President of the United States.
Believe it now, or believe it when it happens.
I still don’t know exactly how it will happen, but I see this as a very positive sign, and it’s one more piece of the puzzle. Mike’s victory in November will be called a “miracle”.
It will be for God’s glory, not any man’s glory.
Allahpundit, when Huckabee wins in November, you will realize that Jesus Christ is who He says He is.
Red Pill on April 9, 2008 at 4:04 PM
Oh god no…please no more Huckaphony.
j0 on April 9, 2008 at 4:07 PM
Aww shucks, I spoke too soon…
SkinnerVic on April 9, 2008 at 4:07 PM
Meet Red Pill, everybody, a man who had a religious awakening recently and has now convinced himself that (a) it’s God’s will that Mike Huckabee become president — presumably through the good lord’s smiting of John McCain; (b) Huck’s elevation to the presidency will inspire me, personally, to convert to Christianity; and (c) that he has the right to continue to spam my threads with this abject nonsense despite having been repeatedly warned about it and even banned once before.
Allahpundit on April 9, 2008 at 4:09 PM
Brat on April 9, 2008 at 2:00 PM
It sort of reminds me of most 5 pointed stars that I have seen in my life.
DaveS on April 9, 2008 at 4:10 PM
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