Huckabee announces 31 legislative backers, headlines rally in Creve Coeur
Here’s the list of the 31 Missouri legislators who announced their support for former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who’s a Republican candidate for president.
He was in Missouri to campaign, while awaiting the results of Florida, where he ended up in fourth place. (Huckabee said in an interview that he wasn’t surprised by his Fla. finish, and that he expected to do much better on Feb. 5 in southern and Midwestern states.)
We’ll link to the P-D story on Huckabee’s visit, and the activities of other Republican hopefuls, when it’s posed.
In the meantime, here’s the list of the pro-Huckabee legislators:
Missouri Faith and Family Chair, Senator John Loudon
State campaign chairman, Sen. Delbert Scott
Representative Jim Avery
Representative Brian Baker
Senator Matt Bartle
Representative Mark Bruns
Representative Wayne Cooper
Representative Cynthia Davis
Representative Ed Emery
Representative Barney Fisher
Representative Ward Franz
Representative Steve Hunter
Representative Will Kraus
Senator Brad Lager
Representative Scott Lipke
Representative Bob May
Senator Rob Mayer
Representative Brian Munzlinger
Representative Bob Nance
Representative Brian Nieves
Representative Darrell Pollock
Senator Chuck Purgason
Representative Don Ruzicka
Representative David Sater
Representative Rodney Schad
Representative Charlie Schlottach
Representative Tom Self
Representative Jason Smith
Representative Mike Sutherland
Representative Don Wells
Representative Dennis Wood
Representative Brian Yates
The release emphasizes some of Huckabee’s key views:
” ‘I want to turn the nonsense of our tax system to the common sense of what’s often called the FairTax,’ Huckabee said. He also discussed being pro-life was well as his stance on homeland security, terrorism and the economy.”
Though I dislike his early promises of a national smoking ban, Huckabee’s commitment to pro-life is stellar:
http://www.missourilife.org/mrl_pac/012808.html
Fortunately for the Republicans, it looks like Huckabee is doomed. Nominating him would be a great way to put Hillary in the White House.
If Hillary gets the nomination there’s not a Republican alive who can stop her. It was just 2 months ago the neocons were claiming Hillary doesn’t stand a chance against Rudy….Look who’s still standing.
The fact that Huckabee is hoping to win Missouri shows how backwards Missouri Republicans are perceived by the rest of the country.
On the contrary, I think that any of the republicans in the presidential race could beat Hillary.
Nobody has ever entered a presidential race with so many people who either distrusted or downright disliked them as Hillary.
If Hillary is the nominee, the question isn’t how many will vote republican, the question is how many will vote against her?
Well…..prior to the 2004 election, Bush had a 45% negative rating acording to a CBS poll.
And 57% thought the country was going in the wong direction….We’ll see how all those negatives hurt Hillary this Tuesday……
Welcome Madam President…
You gun-totting beer-belly scratchers just can’t stand the thought of a woman president…can you.
Clinton V. McCain……You might as well run Bob Dole. Maybe Dole can be on McCain’s ticket.