15 may, 2011, 12: 30 AM EDT by Lisa Lerer
May 15 (Bloomberg)--former Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee, a Baptist pastor turned Cable News Star, said he did not run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.
"My answer is clear and powerful: I will not seek the Republican nomination for President," Huckabee, now a Fox News channel commentator who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, said yesterday at the end of his program. He called it a "spiritual" choice that contradicts the support that he sees in opinion polls. "All factors say go, but my heart says no, "said Huckabee, who intends to instead put his show on Fox News. Huckabee, 55, is a favorite of social conservative voters who an important block in Iowa and South Carolina, important early voting States in the party nomination contests. His decision to pass on the nomination reshapes a Republican field still forms, creating an opening for candidates with strong social conservative records. "It changes completely the race, "said Rich Bond, a former Chairman of the Republican National Committee, which ran from President George H.W. Bush 1988 campaign in Iowa. "The Iowa frontrunner delete out of the race is a very big problem."Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, with a weight of a campaign for the Presidency, said the Republican Party would "have benefited from" Huckabee's involvement in the race. "It is a pity that we are not voting--or his bass--in the presidential debate, "Hunter said in a statement, referring to the instrument that Huckabee played on his program with rock-and-roll star Ted Nugent before announcing he won't run for president."_FITTEDBelangrijke Leader'Former Governor of Minnesota Tim Pawlenty, a potential candidate, Huckabee called an "important leader" within the party and said he plans to "to work hard to win the support of the millions" who backed Huckabee. In a video at the close of Huckabee is uitgezondenonroerend estate developer Donald Trump called him a "great guy." "But many people are very happy that he will not run," said Trump, who has not announced its own decision about running. "Above all other candidates."Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who is running for President as a Republican, called Huckabee's decision "a wonderful example for all Americans of someone trying to do the right thing."National polls of Republican-leaning voters have shown Huckabee leads as a presidential candidate in his party, usually topping lists of potential Republican Challengers.Iowa VotersThat support marks an evolution of four years for a candidate who contest the 2008 election as an underdog, register at 1% in early polling. With only a skeleton campaign operation, he founded the social attention to win over conservative voters in Iowa pastor. The months spent by the State, sometimes with action star Chuck Norris, a devout Christian beloved by the Evangelical Community travel. In January 2008 he rode strong support of the State of social conservatives to win his party Iowa Caucasus. Although later he lost the nomination, Arizona Senator John McCain, Huckabee parlayed his higher profile in a program of Fox News, called "huckabee", and a syndicated radio show.Publicly, he showed little interest in running a different campaign. In December he filed paperwork to build a $ 3 million Beach House in Walton County, Florida. He made plans to host an Alaska cruise in June and, this month, started a series of animated children's videos on American history. He earns about $ 500,000 from Fox News in a contract until 2012, money he would have to forgo if he goes a bid.He spoke with Republican strategist Ed Rollins but just a week ago, his ability to win the support of local activists in early primary States and fund-raisers reviewed.Positive answers "I came back with positive answers on everything," said Rollins, who chaired Huckabee's 2008 campaign. "There was no reason for him not to run within the meaning of politics."Other candidates with strong records against abortion rights and gay marriage including representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, a Tea Party favorite and Pawlenty, the benefit most from Huckabee's decision, "Rollins said.There is always a social conservative who does well in this campaign, "he said. "It just makes it very, very wide open race."Huckabee, a resident of President Bill Clinton's hometown of Hope, Arkansas, was Lieutenant Governor of the State in a special election in 1993. Three years later, he replaced Jim Guy Tucker as Governor after being in the middle of a financial scandal. Huckabee served two terms.EducationAs Governor, he pushed through changes of the State education and health insurance systems, including expansion of health insurance for children whose families are not eligible for Medicaid. Few people in his group angry, he raised fuel taxes to finance a road-building programme in 1999. He also converted in the sentences of more than 1,000 convicts, a decision that was attacked by his opponents during the presidential campaign of 2008. These actions have received renewed attention in 2009 when a man whose sentence Huckabee commuted in 2000 killed four policemen in Washington State. He graduated with a b.a. from Ouachita Baptist University in 1976 and quickly went to work for James Robinson, a television evangelist.Four years later, he was pastor of the Baptist Church of Immanuel in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and began a local talk show hosting. He Later moved to Beech Street First Baptist Church in Texarkana and the city was the newsreader, which relate to results of the elections, weather, and high school football games. He and his wife, Janet, have two sons and a daughter.Republican CandidatesGingrich has announced that his candidacy, and two former Republican Governors, Pawlenty and Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to raise money for potential points have posted. Texas Congressman Ron Paul announced his third White House bid in New Hampshire on May 13. other potential candidates include Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, the former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, former u.s. Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, Trump and Hunter, who stepped down as u.s. Ambassador to China at the end of April. The lack of a clear Republican frontrunner has encouraged others, including Bachmann and Trump to himself position of potential points. Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour said 25 April that he would not enter the race, because he does not have an "absolute fire in the belly" to be performed.The Republican race celebrates, Obama has already opened a 2012 re-election campaign headquarters in Chicago. Millions of dollars he raised last month to events in Illinois, California and New York.--Editors: Paul Tighe, Mark Silva
Contact the reporter on this story: Lisa Lerer in Washington on llerer@bloomberg.net
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