Mike Huckabee ‘Leaks’ Embarrassingly Out Of Touch Presidential Announcement Video

Mike Huckabee this morning posted to Twitter his presidential campaign announcement video even though he hasn’t officially announced White House run. Worse, it’s embarrassingly out of touch with America, and threatens nuclear war with “radical Islam.”

Perhaps Mike Huckabee has never heard the phrase, “What have you done for me lately.” 

The Republican former Arkansas governor and ordained Southern Baptist minister this morning dropped his presidential announcement video on Twitter, and it’s embarrassingly awful.

Forget the fact that Huckabee hasn’t even announced if he’s running – that will come next week – but he pushed out early a video that reminds America he hasn’t held office in almost a decade. 

Shot after shot after shot are of a far younger Huckabee, with a few more recent ones of him delivering speeches. 

If Huckabee is attempting to appeal to a wider base than his former Fox News TV show, this will not do it.

The video does not look at all like America. It features not a single person of color, although there is one shot that includes a Black man, and a wide shot of a large, unrecognizable audience. There are few young people.

“I’ll protect Social Security and Medicare,” Huckabee promises. “Washington has done enough lying and stealing,” he adds in the voiceover. “I’ll never rob seniors of what our government promised them and even forced them to pay for.”

Forced to pay into Social Security and Medicare? Is that an issue now for the Tea Party?

The video begins with how Huckabee, who succeeded Bill Clinton as Governor – he did not run against Bill Clinton – defeated “Bill Clinton’s Arkansas” after Clinton left office. And it curiously includes this image of Bill and Hillary Clinton:

“I’ll lead with moral clarity in a dangerous world,” Huckabee promises.

There’s little policy, quite understandably, but the video ends with a veiled threat by Huckabee that he would start a nuclear war with “radical Islam.”

“There’s a difference between right and wrong. There’s a difference between good and evil. I’ll keep all the options on the table in order to defeat the evil forces of radical Islam.”

“All options”? That would include nuclear weapons.

Great way to start a campaign, Governor.

 

Image: Screenshot via Prosperity For All Fund/YouTube