Breaking News: Rollins new chair of Huckabee campaign

Minutes ago surging Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee named Ed Rollins as his new national campaign chairman and senior advisor.

The goateed Rollins is something of a political legend in GOP circles for having been the architect of Ronald Reagan's 49-state landslide re-election victory in 1984 against Walter Mondale.

Huckabee introduced Rollins at a Concord, N.H. news conference praising his "extraordinary record of bringing achievement and victory to presidential campaigns."

"Ed will helps us take this campaign to the next level and next step," Huckabee added.

The first words out of Rollins' sometimes sharp-spoken mouth were, "I never played baseball and have never taken steroids."

He called the Huckabee campaign "a very exciting place right now. We are on the verge of winning Iowa and coming back here (New Hampshire) and doing very well." He recalled losing a very close New Hampshire primary to Gerald Ford in 1976 and then coming back to win the state and the nomination and the presidency in 1980 over Jimmy Carter.

--Andrew Malcolm

Comments

[TrinSic]

Boy, it really depends who you talk to about who is winning in Iowa, FoxNews says Romney, LA Times says Huckabee and mySpace says Ron Paul, (okay the last one was a joke) but still a lot of confusion...

[Bryan Riley]

What a remarkable announcement for Huckabee.

[Garry Barnes]

Huckabee pardon over 1000 criminals and 12 of those were murders. He also increae spending from 6 million dollars a year to over 16 million dollars a year by increase taxes. One of those taxes was paying for college for illegal immigrates.

[ArmyVet]

Now, maybe, the Republican side of the election has a chance of winning. Good news for Huckabee; Great news for America.

[Nash]

I can't wait to see Clinton face off against Huckabee in the general. It's gonna be really difficult choosing between a big government left wing statist that likes taxes, curbing civil liberties, foreign occupation, runaway spending and inflation and a big government right wing statist that likes taxes, curbing civil liberties, foreign occupation, runaway spending and inflation. It's gonna be a really tough decision choosing between these two very different flavors of authoritarian fascism. I expect the Times to explain to me in vivid detail the two different ways I get to be screwed during this very compelling upcoming general election. Thanks MSM!!

[Glenn]

Huckabee pardoned more than double the number of criminals as his three predecessors combined. Presumably he prayed about these pardons prior to granting them. Either he is deaf to the words of the Lord or he hears Satan and believes it is God because most of these criminals deserved to serve the time the judges and juries awarded them. Imagine if it was your wife, daughter or sister who was raped and then Gov. Huckabee said, "Who cares? He's saved and he deserves to go out and serve the Lord in freedom." Of course, in Dumond's case, serving the Lord meant raping and killing 2 other women. I would be grateful to have a good and Godly president elected, but I am not interested in seeing a man who degrades the criminal justice system by issuing pardons every 4 or so days and disregards the safety of our women.