Former Presidential Candidate Chuck Baldwin Moving Out of State

Gain one 2008 presidential candidate, lose one -- and throw in a second round draft-pick.

While former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, moved to the Panhandle, Chuck Baldwin, who was the Constitution Partys presidential candidate in that year, is heading out of state. Baldwin retired Sunday as pastor of the Crossroad Baptist Church in Pensacola and is now headed to Montana.

God has led us to the conviction that Montana (along with other Mountain states) is going to be the tip of the spear in the freedom fight; and we believe God wants us to be part of that fight, wrote Baldwin to supporters on Wednesday. We plan to start a new ministry where I can preach and my family can sing and minister (you should hear them sing!). Once we get established and can raise the funds, I definitely plan to livestream my messages on the Internet as we have been doing at Crossroad for the past year and a half. And if God opens the door, I will not rule out a run for state office. Yes, the freedom message is both spiritual and political; and I am afraid of neither!

Baldwin had served as Florida state chairman of the Moral Majority during the 1980s.