Archive for the ‘Mike Huckabee’ Category

  • Romney defends record as Huckabee wins straw poll

    A day after former Baptist minister and likely presidential rival Mike Huckabee offered a withering critique of Mitt Romney’s record, the former Massachusetts governor made his pitch to the same group of religious conservatives.

  • Why prevention won’t cure health care

    A useful principle of political analysis is to be suspicious when everyone agrees. Which is why the bipartisan paeans to “prevention” in this summer’s health care debate have me scratching my head. It’s the one reform on which Henry Waxman and John Boehner can join hands. Don’t get me wrong: officials are right to say our system is crazily tilted toward paying docs and hospitals for curing people only after they’ve gotten terribly sick. But when they jump from this to the idea that America’s overdue prevention agenda will be the fix for soaring national health costs (and even help pay for expanded coverage), they’re blowing smoke.

  • Huckabee tells Republicans how to recover

    If the Republican Party wants to get back on track, former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says GOP leaders must first restore voters’ confidence in the government.

  • Huckabee says he’s not settling scores

    Former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said Wednesday he’s not trying to settle old scores with his onetime GOP rival Mitt Romney, despite sharply criticizing the former Massachusetts governor in a book out earlier this week.

  • Mike Huckabee: Still a GOP Star

    The man who came in second to McCain in the primaries flashed his trademark humor in boosting his old foe at the convention

  • Rivals no more: McCain, Huckabee do the rounds

    Sen. John McCain, on the last leg of this week’s tour of economically struggling regions, was campaigning alongside former rival Mike Huckabee on Friday.

  • Huckabee to write book about failed White House run

    Two weeks after the next president is elected, Mike Huckabee will publish a book sharing details on his failed bid for the White House and offering his vision for remodeling the conservative movement.

  • Huckabee bows to ‘inevitable,’ ends GOP run

    Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee bowed to “the inevitable” and dropped out of the Republican presidential race Tuesday night after an improbable run for a politician little known beyond his home state a year ago.

  • McCain looks to clinch GOP nomination

    Sen. John McCain could clinch the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday, but Mike Huckabee refuses to call it quits.

  • Dallas Morning News: Huckabee good investment in GOP’s future

    The Dallas Morning News published an editorial Sunday supporting former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, despite saying he has no chance of winning the Republican presidential nomination.