Governor Huckabee appeared on the Hannity and Colmes show on Fox News Thursday February 14th.  Below is the transcript from the interview:

SEAN HANNITY, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: Welcome to HANNITY AND COLMES. We're glad you are with us. I'm Sean Hannity. Right to our top story tonight; Governor Mitt Romney endorsed Senator John McCain today, calling the senator a hero. Former Governor Mike Huckabee is now the only man standing between Senator McCain and the Republican nomination. And Governor Huckabee joins us right now.

Governor, always good to see you. Thank you for being with us.

MIKE HUCKABEE (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Thank you, Sean. Great to be back.

HANNITY: You did have an announcement, news released today, talking about Romney's endorsement. He said, this goes to show there is a lot of me too, going on in the party. And I just happen to be the leader of the not-me crowd.

HUCKABEE: Sean, I have always been the guy that looked for the shortest line. You know, if you are going to the bank or you're going to the grocery store, look for the short line. And, you know, there is a short line that I have decided to follow. But it's a line that is based on my deeply held convictions that we are a pro-life party, that we stand for the Human Life Amendment, that we don't support human embryonic stem cell research, that we really do believe that lower taxes are better than higher taxes.

We need a strong national defense. I think I am speaking for a lot of small business owners, who know that the only way we can get small business where they can compete is implementing something like the fair tax. I'm speaking for those folks. They haven't asked me to quit yet.

HANNITY: First of all, governor, I agree with you on the fair tax. Neal Bohrtz (ph) has just written a great follow-up book on that. Let me specifically ask you this, because even as of now, when Governor Romney got out of race, he still has more delegates to you, freeing them up to Senator McCain in this race. It gets down to the question of can you mathematically win?

You are at 242. Governor Romney was close to 300. There you have Senator McCain close to that magic number. What is it, 1191? Mathematically, you would have to win about 90 percent of the delegates that are left. Do you think you could do that?

HUCKABEE: Well, I'm not sure. But I know one thing, if I quit I know I can't. But the other thing is that maybe none of us get to 1191 and it goes to the convention. That's always one path. It's a path that used to be the way that a person got the nomination until we started trying to cook it in advance. But there are a lot of people in states like Texas and where I am right now in Wisconsin. I'm in Green Bay -- and in Ohio and Pennsylvania, they haven't even voted yet.

Why should we tell them, don't even bother going to vote. We are not interested in what you say. I think these folks have a right to have a voice and a choice. That's why I feel like it's important to stay in the election.

HANNITY: Governor, I'm not going to tell what you to do. I think you have got to do what's in your best interest. You have supporters that you have to answer to. Does there come a point where it becomes mathematically impossible and that raises the question, what then is your goal? Is your goal to take this all the way to the convention? Are you in to the end or in to the day that he gets 1191? If you don't win Texas and Ohio and Wisconsin, some of these other states, will you get out, or are you in until he gets 1191?

HUCKABEE: I have said that if he gets 1191, then he is the designee - - the nominee.

HANNITY: Will you pledge not to get out before then?

HUCKABEE: Yes, I have already done that. I have done it about 100,000 times. I get asked this question every day repeatedly. So I want to make sure that people understand that's when the game ends, is when somebody gets 1191. That's when they have enough delegates to declare themselves the nominee. Until that happens, we still have people out in this country that haven't voted and I think that they have a right to be heard from. If they choose to go another way, then so be it; I'll accept that. But I'm not a quitter and I'm not going to quit on the people who got me here.

COLMES: Governor, it's Alan Colmes. I urge you to stay in. I'm glad you are doing it?

HUCKABEE: Thank you.

COLMES: Good to see you once again, governor. You said today upon the sanctioning of the campaign by Mitt Romney of John McCain -- you said, if either he, you that is, or McCain stand on the stage and congratulate the other for winning the nomination, you won't have to take acting lessons to convince people that you like each other. Are you saying Romney is a phony?

HUCKABEE: No. I'm just saying that this is a very new script for Mitt Romney to get on the stage and talk about what a wonderful guy John McCain is. I have been saying nice things about John McCain from the very beginning of our early debates. They are sincere. I like John McCain. I respect him. I do think I would be a better president. I think I'm prepared to be the chief executive, a role that I have played, something no other person running for president has done.

I think that when you are sitting at the Oval Office desk, you need to be able to make the tough decisions, having had the experience of serving in that capacity, and I'm ready to do that.

COLMES: Is Mitt Romney insincere in today's endorsement?

HUCKABEE: I can't judge what's in his heart. I can barely judge what's in mine, much less somebody else's. I'm not going there. I just know what he said today is very different than what he has said in the past about John McCain. Look, I'm glad he is making a decision about supporting somebody. I wish it could have been me, but I didn't expect it. There is no one in the establishment of the Republican party who is jumping all over themselves, breaking legs to run up on the stage with me right now.

But everywhere I'm going in Wisconsin today, we are packing crowds of people in these rallies, still enthusiastic. And they are wanting somebody to be a spokesman for them. I look out there and I don't see the big names, the ones that turn headlines, but I see the people that make America a great country, the homemakers and the truck drivers, and the ordinary folks. That's who the base of our party is.

COLMES: Is there either direct conversations between you and John McCain or back channel talks between the camps in an effort to get to you leave the campaign?

HUCKABEE: No. I have not had any conversations with Senator McCain since Tuesday night, when I called to congratulate him on winning Virginia. I don't think anyone in my campaign is having conversations with people in the McCain camp. John McCain has not asked me to leave. Some of his supporters have. You know, I have no intention of acting according to the supporters of my opponent. That doesn't make any sense.

When my supporters start telling me to quit, I have got to listen to that. But as long as the cheerleaders for my team are still waving their pom-poms, it's hardly time to quit the game and leave the field.

COLMES: The "L.A. Times" has a piece out today saying that you are staying in this game to be regarded as a national leader of evangelicals or maybe a future standard bearer; would that be an accurate assessment of what your intentions are?

HUCKABEE: No, I think the accurate assessment is that I'm still running for president. I have been at this now over 13 months. I have put my heart and soul into it. I have made incredible sacrifices to do this and more importantly, a whole lot of people across America have made major sacrifices for me be here. I owe it to them, to those folks like the truck driver in Michigan named Randy Bishop and the janitor in Birmingham, Alabama named Josh who have given me 20 and 30 dollars and said, hang in there. Don't quit. That's who I look to.

COLMES: Would the vice president be something you would accept?

HUCKABEE: I'm not looking at that. I'm looking to be president. If not, I will support the nominee. I doubt I will be asked to been on ticket. I have stayed longer than some folks want me to.

COLMES: All right, governor. Thank you for coming back on HANNITY AND COLMES. I appreciate it very much.

HUCKABEE: Thank you.

COLMES: Coming up, Ann Coulter told us right here on HANNITY AND COLMES she will support Hillary Clinton if John McCain gets the GOP nod. Well, if things keep going south for the New York senator, will Ann get behind Obama? We're going to ask her coming up next.

Mike Huckabee is starting to get the reputation of "Miracle Man."   The follow Time magazine article highlights Governor Huckabee's recent success and his determination to continue in the Republican race for president.

Mike Huckabee loves it when the odds look bad. They play right into the core theme of his candidacy. He is, after all, the other man from Hope, Ark., the first male in his family to graduate high school, the poor kid who grew up just a "generation away from dirt floors and outdoor toilets." And look at him now. He's 52-years-old, a former governor, 100 pounds off his top weight, and out there mounting a serious run for President of the United States.

So what is candidate Huckabee to do, when the odds go from bad to worse to damn near impossible? As the last week has made clear, he does not flinch or throw up his hands in exasperation. He seems to get even more excited, relishing his role as a modern day David staring down a growing Goliath. Then he talks about tornados, a yard sign and miracles.

The tornados touched down last week in Brandenburg, Kentucky, and the yard sign was stuck in the lawn of one of his supporters. "A Mike Huckabee yard sign," he told the crowd Saturday at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, DC, where his rival Mitt Romney had quit his campaign only two days earlier. The wind damaged a nearby home, but the sign didn't budge, Huckabee told the crowd. "Standing pristine without a hint of damage, even leaning, was that yard sign," he said. "Folks I want you to know across America, everywhere there is a vote still to be cast, I'm still standing."

Of course, the crowd ate it up, with whoops and hollers and cheers. Huckabee's crowds always do. By Saturday night, it was evident that his supporters all across the country were still standing too. Huckabee had declared victory in two more states — Kansas, where he beat the presumptive nominee, John McCain, by a convincing two to one margin in a caucus, and Louisiana, where he edged out McCain with more votes in a primary. In a third contest, a caucus in Washington state, he nearly fought McCain to a draw, losing by about 223 delegate votes, or 1.6%, with 93% of the precincts reporting; on Sunday, however, his campaign, citing unspecified "irregularities", said it was not ready to concede the state and would explore legal options of challenging the result.

None of this changes the bitter math that Huckabee faces as he struggles to force a convention floor fight with McCain. As it stands in the latest CNN delegate estimate, McCain leads Huckabee by a margin of 723 to 217, with only about 1,000 delegates left to be awarded. Under the party rules, 1,191 delegates are needed to win the nomination, which means Huckabee would have to win most of the remaining contests. It will, in Huckabee's own words, take a miracle. "I know people say that the math doesn't work out," the Baptist pastor politician said over the weekend. "Folks, I didn't major in math. I majored in miracles, and I still believe in those too."

Evidently, he is not alone. His rally Saturday afternoon in College Park, Maryland, drew more than 1,000 people, overflowing a large room. As elsewhere, many in the crowd were evangelical Christians, who were drawn to Huckabee for his values. Some were true believers. Some were protest voters, who were not yet ready to get behind a McCain coronation. "McCain still needs to know that there are a lot of us who still aren't happy with a lot of his stated positions," said Doug Champ, a Republican union automotive worker, who lives in White Marsh, Maryland. He also added, "I think everybody knows, even most of the people in this room know, that McCain will be the nominee."

As the polls now stand, Huckabee is a dramatic underdog heading into the February 12 primaries in Virginia and Maryland, with McCain outpolling him by a margin of two to one. But the Huckabee campaign says it has its eye fixed firmly on the March 4 primary in Texas, where Huckabee could benefit from his southern appeal, and lingering conservative skepticism on McCain's positions on campaign finance reform and immigration. Whatever happens, Huckabee's strategists maintain without fail that the candidate will not be swayed by pressure from fellow Republicans to bow out before one candidate reaches 1,191 delegates. On Friday, Huckabee received a call from Texas Gov. Rick Perry, asking him to leave the race, according to someone familiar with the call. Huckabee told his fellow governor no. "We don't care. We're not about the party. We never have been," said Ed Rollins, Huckabee's national chairman, backstage at the Maryland rally. "To a certain extent this is about the people. They get their choice."

In an appearance on NBC's Meet The Press Sunday, Huckabee rejected as "nonsense" the notion that his continued battle against McCain could weaken the Republican party or drain resources from the general election effort. "If our party can't have a thoughtful discussion and some meaningful debate and dialogue about the issues important to us as a party, then we are really not prepared to lead," he said. He has also been quick to reject any notion that could perhaps be endangering his own, long-term political viability at the forefront of the conservative movement, drawing explicit comparisons between his candidacy and Ronald Reagan's in 1976 against the incumbent Gerald Ford. "[The establishment] had all begged him to get out of the race in '76 and not take it to the convention, but he had convictions, and he stood by those convictions," Huckabee told reporters this past weekend. "And now when you talk to Republicans, the Reagan name is the gold standard," he said.

All of which means that the "people", as Rollins describes them, get a few more weeks to hear from a enthusiastic candidate who seems to always see victory, even in the face of defeat. At a press conference Saturday morning, one reporter blurted out what has become for Huckabee a comfortable truth. "Governor, basically you have nothing to lose by staying in," she called from the back of the scrum. Huckabee paused. "Ah," he said, before smiling. "No. I don't guess I do."

Mike Huckabee made an appearance on "The Late Show"  with David Letterman on January 7, 2008 . 

Governor Mike Huckabee had a great interview on the CBS Early Show the morning of the Iowa Caucus.

The reviews of Governor Mike Huckabee's appearance on Jay Leno are starting to come in and they are positive.  Videos of his appearance are below.  Complete transcript of the NBC show are here.

Byron York, National Review:  "A very polished performance. Hard to see how it would hurt him in Iowa or anywhere else."

Jonathan Adler, National Review:   "Huck's appearance on Leno highlighted his appeal: He is a smooth talking, charismatic guy, who naturally appeals when compared to some of his more plastic competitors..."

LA Times:  "It's national exposure for the Arkansan in case he does well in early voting states. It's free media exposure, which Huckabee's under-funded campaign has relied on for months. It gives his Hucka-bloggers something to write about. And Huckabee will probably.... be seen by more Iowans later this evening than anything he could possibly do back where the corn and soybean fields are frozen and sleeping."

Governor Mike Huckabee was interviewed on Good Morning America and supported his decision to avoid negative ads in Iowa.

Chuck Norris was interviewed on MSNBC Wednesday and responding to Mitt Romney's new ad criticizing both Huckabee and Norris.

The Huckabee campaign manager, Chip Saltsman, appeared on Fox News America's Newsroom on 1/2/2008.

The Los Angeles Times covered the Blogger's Bash event on Tuesday and quoted StuckonHuck.com's Dave Davidson in their story:

Hey, Chuck. Blog this!

Washington, D.C., is so 2007. The center of the American political universe these days is the Marriott Hotel in downtown Des Moines, as in Iowa caucus country.

There, on this first day of the new year, newly-minted GOP front-runner Mike Huckabee, accompanied by his no-nonsense fan-in-chief, Chuck Norris, convened a 2008 version of a press conference, only it was only for bloggers, a roomful of obedient Huckabee blogger boosters.

Huckabee opened by thanking them for paying attention to his once-obscure campaign when no one else would. And then he made a political promise: He will hold a blogger dance in the East Room of the White House when he is elected president. So put that down on your laptop calendar.

Then, it was the turn of blogger Dave Davidson of stuckonhuck.com to....

fire a particularly tough question: “How can we best help the campaign?”

Huckabee responded by urging that bloggers respond to any political attacks on him by “disseminating the truth" and setting the record straight. Norris, who looked in fine enough shape to knock any political attackers into an alternate universe, explained that he personally believes in positive campaigns. He then proceeded to round-house kick rival Republican Mitt Romney by citing his numerous “flip-flops” in detail.

Pressing ahead, Davidson elicited from Norris his plan to hold a major fundraiser for Huckabee at the actor's 700-acre Texas ranch on Jan. 20. As described by Norris, the event will be a “virtual” barbeque. For $10, Hucka-fans will be able to click on the website and get a tour of the Norris ranch. “I could show them the 2,000-square-foot gymnasium,” Norris said. Also, he’d show them his rec room, which, he noted, also is 2,000 square feet.

“If the bloggers would get behind this," Norris suggested, "we could make this a very, very successful event.”  There were no contradictions, virtual or otherwise. Perhaps, Norris even said, Huckabee’s rock band would perform.

Would the bloggers support this? Norris asked. He received a round of enthusiastic applause.

Davidson then offered a suggestion of his own: all the people attending the virtual barbeque could have actual barbeques of their own at their real homes. It could be the biggest barbeque ever, he noted.

After the blog-conference ended, Norris left through a rear door and accidentally came into a room that The Times temporary Iowa news bureau occupies. Old-fashioned print reporters, including The Times' Dan Morain, seized the opportunity to ask a few questions of their own.

Norris said the fundraising goal is to have at least 200 people attend the actual feed, each paying $1,000. And with people elsewhere paying $10 to click on the site to take the virtual tour, Norris hopes to help Huckabee raise $10 million. Let's see, that means 980,000 online virtual visitors -- and no food.

Meanwhile, newly-named Huckadvisor Ed Rollins held court nearby and said the former governor's campaign does not pay any bloggers. Presumably, they get virtual appreciation.

-- Andrew Malcolm

Governor Mike Huckabee appeared on Fox News "Hannity and Colmes" on Tuesday responding to negative campaign attacks from Mitt Romney and discussing his lead in the Iowa polls.

Governor Mike Huckabee will be one of the first guests on the Jay Leno show on NBC January 2nd when it returns with the first new broadcast since the writer's strike began a few months ago.

Presidential Hopeful Mike Huckabee Will Chat With Leno Before Iowa Votes

Hollywood Huckabee

GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee’s schedule for Wednesday, the day before the Iowa caucuses, has him in Fort Dodge and Mason City.

And Hollywood.

Huckabee will jet to California in the afternoon for a taped appearance on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” which will air Wednesday night.

Leno’s big in Iowa, Huckabee said today in Cedar Rapids.

“It’s a great opportunity for me to talk to Iowa as well as the rest of the country,” he said. “My guess is a lot of people in Iowa watch Jay Leno, probably more than will ever come to a rally and see me no matter where I would be.”

The show will be Leno’s first after a long hiatus because of the writers’ strike.

“Besides,” Huckabee said, “if all else fails and if this whole process doesn’t work out maybe he needs a sidekick and I will be auditioning tomorrow so we will find out.”

Governor Mike Huckabee appeared on Meet The Press on Sunday 12-30-07 to discuss campaign issues.

Governor Mike Huckabee appears on Face the Nation on Sunday December 23, 2008 and addressed many campaign issues including his support for the Fair Tax.

Fox News host Bill O'Reilly lead of his show last night discussing Mike Huckabee's new "What Matters Most" Christmas ad. O'Reilly actually passionately defended the ad and disagreed with other critics claiming there were "subliminal" or hidden messages.