I'll make this brief, because newly announced presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is not regarded as having much of a shot at the 2016 GOP presidential nomination. For one thing, Huckabee carries a lot of baggage, especially ties to the quasi-theocratic New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) movement :
For example, former governor Huckabee's remark - back in March 2011, that all Americans should be required, forced "at gunpoint" if necessary (link to video), to listen to David Barton's twisted falsifications of American history. For all practical purposes, Barton can be regarded as an NAR apostle.
Former Texas GOP Vice Chair Barton claims that key concepts from the United States Constitution are drawn from the Old Testament books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy (link to video.) Barton's website features a scholarly article that seems to endorse the enslavement of unbelievers, "biblical slavery" that is.
At the March 2011 conference aimed at drawing pastors into politics, former governor Huckabee also heaped praise on evangelical activist David Lane, who has been organizing such events for many years.
In a 2013 op-ed Lane, who that same year personally blessed and laid hands on Ted Cruz and Reince Priebus, called upon believers to "Wage War To Restore a Christian America". Also in 2013, Lane predicted car bombings in major U.S. cities because of "homosexuals praying at the Inauguration [of Barack Obama]".
But back to Huckabee; in 2008, flush with his success in the Iowa caucuses, Mike Huckabee gave a campaign sermon urging his audience to become "soldiers for Christ" in "God's Army." A few days later, Huckabee would declare that the U.S. Constitution should be amended to sync it with the Bible.
Huckabee emits these Christian supremacist ejaculations so often that some observers have compiled "top 10" lists of his most outrageous declarations (see John Perr's list 1, and list 2.)
But my personal favorite in the Huckabee chronicles was the 2009 VA church event at which Mike Huckabee was prayed over, blessed and anointed by TheCall head and NAR apsotle Lou Engle, a member of an elite group of prophets who get messages directly from God and can, in effect, write new scripture to add to the Bible.
(Lou Engle is a member in the Apostolic Council of Prophetic Elders. led by Cindy Jacobs, who has claimed that God's wrath at Obama's decision to end DADT caused flocks of bird to drop dead from the sky.)
In 2008 Engle issued what was, in effect, a fatwa against abortion and abortion providers titled "The Doctrine of The Shedding of Innocent Blood" in which Engle stated,
"Surely blood requires blood in God's judgment. God so highly values humanity that He protects it with His severe judgment. A day of reckoning is set if man does not obey Him...
Where there is shedding of innocent blood, there is no atonement for the land. There is a blood pollution problem on America's soil. The most "dangerous terrorist" is not Islam, but God. One of God's names is "the Avenger of Blood." Have you worshipped [sic] that God yet?"
The same year, in a huge rally against same-sex marriage,
Engle called for "martyrs" to stop legal abortion.
In a March 11, 2009 website post, Engle compared late-term abortion provider George Tiller to Nazi guards at the Auschwitz death camp.
On Sunday March 31, a few weeks after Engle's post, Tiller was assassinated, with a bullet through his eye, in the lobby of his church.
Less than three months later, Lou Engle would bless and anoint both Mike Huckabee and Newt Gingrich, in a ceremony at the Virginia Beach, VA Rock Church.
The following year, in May 2010 Engle would stage one of his TheCall events in Kampala, Uganda, in apparent support of Uganda's looming, notorious Anti Homosexuality Bill. As I described in a December 2009 report that broke the story of Engle's upcoming Uganda event, Engle has stated that in the early 2000s, he was a roomate to now-Kansas governor Sam Brownback, with whom Engle shared a Washington, D.C. condo.