Huckabee Defends His Breaks From Conservative Orthodoxy

[Omaha Steve]

Source: NBC News

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee made it clear on Sunday that he's preparing to jump into the 2016 presidential race.

"When you become an active candidate, then you file the FEC papers. But I think it's pretty evident that I'm moving in that direction," he told Chuck Todd on NBC's Meet the Press. Huckabee said he will decide whether to formally launch a presidential campaign by the late spring.

Huckabee also defended his breaks from conservative orthodoxy on Common Core education standards, immigration and cap and trade. He said he would support a bill to give in-state benefits to undocumented immigrants again, as he did in 2006 as governor of Arkansas.

"You don't punish a child for something his parents did. I want to get control of the borders... But I don't know that we've ever been a nation that said, 'If you're in the back seat of your car when your dad is speeding, we're going to charge you in the back seat for what your dad did up in the front seat.'"

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[onehandle]

1. So he's serious about losing against Hillary.

Enjoy your book tour, Governor.

[Kelvin Mace]

7. Huck won't make it to the general

[onehandle]

8. Thus, book tour.

The Krazy Klown Kar is a scam for unserious GOPers to milk.

[underpants]

2. Where do the chicken sammiches play in here?

Mike you are not going to be President.

[nakocal]

3. Of course Huckabee broke with following and practicing Christian teaching years ago

Huckabee also does not follow any of the teachings of Jesus.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

4. These guys never go away

like cockroaches you thought you defeated with bug spray in your kitchen last year.

[Skidmore]

9. It has become a racket for some of them.

The way they make money for just flapping their gums.

[demigoddess]

13. +1

that's the whole aim. to capture money for themselves.

[freshwest]

14. Beat me to it. He's looking to his millions.

Of course, he'll get a bonus for screwing with American Mindscape for the Koch brothers, who bragged that 'we're only just beginning' in mucking up the political process for their Master of the Universe game.

[rurallib]

5. big talk now

if this ploy fails he'll be sucking a Koch soon enough just like all the rest.

[Thinkingabout]

6. It looks like an interesting primary coming for the GOP again. I am going to

Miss Newt, he was good for a laugh or so but maybe Sarah and Chris can make up the difference.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

16. Miss Newt? Sound about right...

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

10. of course, Chuck Todd doesn't grill Huck on making nice with Jim Bakker this week

Questioning a candidate about their associations is only a thing for Democrats.

Huck can go on the show of a guy who went to prison for defrauding his followers and is accused of rape, hinting he may even announce his campaign on the disgraced evangelist's show, and the "lib'rul" media just ignores it.

However, Obama was hounded over Rev. Wright and a barely-there connection to William Ayers for the entire 2008 campaign, even being asked about it in debates.

[CountAllVotes]

11. If you're in the back seat of your car ...

Another sheer brilliant moment there Huck ...

[AKing]

12. Huckleberry once compared not finding WMD's in Iraq to...

not finding all the eggs at an Easter egg hunt

[olddad56]

15. I would be happy with any of these 'flat earth' candidates running as the GOP presidentalcandidate.