Mike Huckabee may be content to busy himself with his TV show for now, but that doesn’t mean he’s giving up the idea of running for president again in the future. Just last week, he declared that he’d consider another run because “My experience in no way embittered me” – and if he decides to run again in 2012, it looks like he’ll have the support of Tom DeLay:
Tom DeLay was a supporter of Mike Huckabee in the Republican primaries, and likes his chances for the party’s nomination in 2012 if John McCain loses in November, despite disagreeing with the former Arkansas governor on a number of issues.
“I’ve known Huckabee for 30 years,” DeLay, the former House majority leader from Texas, told PolitickerCA.com. “I know what kind of man he is, how strong he is. I didn’t agree with him on global warming, but I can overlook that knowing what a great man he is.”
“I think that because of the kind of person he is, people like him,” DeLay said. “If he weren’t so populist, I think the conservatives would rally around him.”
Huckabee encountered significant opposition during his campaign from various conservative groups, including the Club for Growth, which invested heavily in negative advertising against his candidacy.
DeLay said that he doesn’t think Huckabee will be satisfied with his new job at Fox News, and hinted that the former governor was interested in running for president again if McCain loses. “He’s looking ahead,” DeLay said. “He’s going to be out there helping build the party. He’s going to be around.
