Mike Huckabee Pledges to Help Fight Bill Nelson

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee was an early backer of Marco Rubios ambitions to land in the U.S. Senate -- and the once and perhaps future candidate for the Republican presidential nomination took aim at Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson on Tuesday.

Florida needs another conservative United States senator like Marco Rubio, wrote Huckabee in an e-mail sent out to more than 5,000 Floridians on Tuesday. Democrat Senator Bill Nelson has been in Washington too long and it appears he's stopped listening to Floridians -- after all, you didn't want bailouts, you didn't want the stimulus package and you sure didn't want Obamacare. Thanks to elected officials like Senator Nelson you got bailouts, you got the stimulus and you got Obamacare.

Huckabee, who moved to the Panhandle last year, noted that his leadership PAC, Huck PAC, is prepared to help out against Nelson.

Senator Nelson, like all of the Democrats up for re-election in 2012, is a large reason our nation is going bankrupt, insisted Huckabee. Sadly last week, when given a chance to begin to redeem poor legislative choices, Senator Nelson voted against the repeal of Obamacare.

While Huckabee did not weigh in on who he would back for the Republican nomination in 2012, he thought that Nelson was vulnerable in 2012 when he will run for a third term. In January, Nelson stated that he planned to run for re-election.

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