The Competent Conservative

This is the strongest indication indication to date that Mike Huckabee will not run for President in 2012.  ANY Presidential candidate would not let go of their South Carolina team unless they are not running.  I’ve said for a long time that Mike is not running.  He has a cruise scheduled in June and is [...]

ARG SC Poll: Romney Runs Strong! Trails Huck By 2 From Doug at RightSpeak.com Mike Huckabee and a surprisingly strong Mitt Romney are the leading candidates in the South Carolina 2012 GOP primary according to a new ARG poll released today. Huckabee leads Romney by a scant 2%, in a state many pundits view as [...]

If you haven’t yet heart the radio clip of Glenn Beck referring to Huckabee as a “Progressive” you can do so here.  When one of Huckabee’s most avid and passionate supporters, who goes by the name of TexasConservative at RightSpeak.com, posted Huckabee’s response to Glenn Beck earlier this week I told him that this was [...]

Glenn derides Mike Huckabee for being a progressive, for being like McCain, for raising taxes and for “overreaching.”

From Nate Gunderson at Race42012: The Year-End reports for the various PACs are now in. Here are the raw numbers for the Free and Strong America PAC (Romney), Sarah PAC (Palin), Huck PAC (Huckabee), and the Freedom First PAC (Pawlenty): FnSA-PAC Huck-PAC Sarah-PAC FF-PAC Cash On Hand Start of 2009 $338K $80K $0K $0K Cash [...]

National Journal Magazine has a new political “insiderss” poll out today showing that both Republican and Democrat insiders believe that Romney will be the strongest candidate to face Obama.   You can see the Republican insiders overwhelmingly gave Romney their confidence. Q: Who would be the Republicans’ strongest presidential nominee in 2012? Democrats (111 votes) Rank/Candidate [...]

Mitt and Ann Romney were recently by Fox News’ Gretchen.  That interview will air on Wedsnesday.  Here are some excerpts of what Governor Romney had to say about his plans for 2012. Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says he will decide after the 2010 Congressional elections whether to take on pro-abortion President Barack Obama. [...]

I sure wish Evangelicals For Mitt had the option on commenting on their posts.  I say we all send Nancy and David French e-mails requesting they do so because there are a number of posts that seem like they are designed for commenting but no one can do so.  That’s not a true blog! At [...]

Politico has this article out on how Conservatives unleashed heck on Mike Huckabee for granting clemency to the man accused of killing 4 police officers just nine years after clemency was granted. The conservative blogosphere unleashed a torrent of criticism against Mike Huckabee Monday after a man whose sentence he commuted as Arkansas governor was [...]

There has been much debate regarding who has the greatest shot at winning the Republican nomination in 2012.  There have also been many polls indicating who the considered front runners are -Romney, Palin and Huckabee.  Tim Pawlenty has also been considered, but is not showing well in any of the polling. But there is one [...]