Former Arkansas Governor turned radio and tv commentator Mike Huckabee recently announced that he wouldn’t rule out being Vice President. He said that he is impressed with any number of Republican nominees currently eyeing a bid for the White House in 2012. Huckabee disappointed many of his fans when he announced many weeks ago that he did not intend to run for President in 2012. Best known in recent months for his regular appearances on Fox News, where he has his own show, and for playing bass guitar along with a variety of talented guest musicians who have made appearances as guests, Huckabee is considered to represent the conservative American voter with some degree of accuracy not to be found in many of the other potential candidates. But Huckabee says he’s found the current list of Republican candidates running for President in 2012 to be impressive. During that disappointing announcement several weeks ago, he said he was quite happy being a radio and tv commentator, and couldn’t imagine a more fulfilling role, but that he wouldn’t turn down a chance at being Vice President if one of the current candidates called and asked him to consider it.
Huckabee has a lot more going for him this election season than last, when he was fairly famous for his uncanny resemblance to the man in the “Sea Salt!” soup commercials from Campbell’s. People are looking back over the last presidential season and many are waxing nostalgic for that Huckabee magic. It seems to be another case of “Do you miss me yet?” sans the vitriol and bitterness with which that was originally dispatched by the Bush faithful who felt they had been robbed when current president Obama won the 2008 election.
Huckabee is a powerful contender, and could even make a go of running for president if he wanted to. He still has many supporters in the right wing of American politics, and has gained so much more public recognition after being on television regularly since the last election season. It’s only natural that so many voters would hope to see his name back on the ballots next fall.
