Zachery Michael, an aide to Moore, told CNN Monday night that an official announcement of Moore’s presidential exploratory committee will be made in April.

Moore will potentially seek the nomination because “we’ve seen the same type of politician running for president – the elitist type,” Michael said. “What sets him a part is he can connect to all Americans and has an idea of what Americans are going through. We are seeing the same types of people run and we aren’t getting anywhere.”

Moore became a celebrity of social conservatives in 2003 when he refused a federal court order to remove a self-commissioned monument depicting the Ten Commandments from the grounds of the Alabama court. After being removed from his judicial post as a result of the incident, Moore unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for Alabama governor once in 2006 and a second time in 2010.

According to CNN’s interview with Michael, the move into an already flush field of Republicans considering a bid for the White House was being considered by Moore as early as September 2010, following trips into Iowa where Moore garnered support from local tea party and religious activists.

Roy Moore, a former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice, spoke at a rally in Des Moines on behalf of those who object to same-sex marriage. (Photo: Tyler Kingkade/The Iowa Independent)

Moore has made at least five public visits to the Hawkeye State since the Iowa Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in April 2009. Most recently he served as the keynote speaker at a Des Moines rally organized by Bob Vander Plaats, head of the conservative Family Leader organization, to pressure Democratic lawmakers into allowing a popular vote on civil marriage rights.

“No society is prepared to deal with the problems arising out of same-sex marriages; child abuse, adoption, divorce, foster care, alimony, and the list goes on and on,” Moore said as the crowd nodded in agreement and called out in support.

Many Iowans are aware that actor and conservative activist Chuck Norris endorsed former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee during the 2008 presidential contests, and also that Norris loaned his star-power to then-gubernatorial candidate Vander Plaats in 2010. Vander Plaats was not, however, the only gubernatorial candidate that earned a nod from Norris. Also on the list was Moore, who was seeking Alabama’s governorship. Moore, who lost his first bid for the GOP nomination by a roughly two-to-one margin, finished fourth in the 2010 primary, having garnered roughly 20 percent of the vote.

The balloon being floated by Moore’s people comes at a time when socially conservative GOP candidates have found significant favor among Iowa Republicans. Although local party activists continue to hold the type of small gatherings with potential presidential candidates that have made the state’s first-in-the-nation status famous, socially conservative organizations have long been hosting much larger rallies and multi-city events around key issues such as same-sex marriage and abortion.

As Iowa Republican Doug Gross noted in a recent interview with The New York Times, “We look like Camp Christian out here. If Iowa becomes some extraneous right-wing outpost, you have to question whether it is going to be a good place to vet your presidential candidates.”

The politically fertile ground in Iowa has definitely sprouted a wealth of socially conservative politicians who are at least considering a 2012 run, but it remains to be seen if the roughly 60 percent majority of So-Con Iowa caucus-goers can simultaneously keep two or three candidates viable and, thus, in the national spotlight. Even in 2008, when Iowa’s religious-minded focused their attention on Huckabee, the push forward wasn’t enough to convince other early states — not even with predominantly fiscal candidates U.S. Sen. John McCain and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney splitting more moderate support.

If, however, two or three strict social conservatives remain in the race and wind up splitting evangelical support in the Hawkeye State, the situation could produce a small opening that might be used to a centrist candidate’s advantage.

As 9/12 concluded, we all heard many ways to keep this revolutionary movement going. But I was sitting back thinking there’s one way we can take a daily stand and declare that as for me and my house, we will serve God and the republic as the Founders did.

If that describes you, then I suggest you fly some revolutionary flag in lieu of your 50-star flag over the next year. Post the 13-star Betsy Ross flag, Navy Jack or Gadsden flag (“Don’t Tread on Me”) or any representation that tells the story of Old Glory and makes a stand for our Founders’ vision of America.

Of course, patriots know that the 50-star flag truly represents one nation under God and our Founders’ republic, but modernists simply don’t get it. So what do you say we make a statement by flying a different flag and educate our neighbors when they ask us, “Why are you flying that flag instead of the contemporary Stars and Stripes?” (If you insist on posting a modern USA flag, too, then get one that is tea-stained to show your solidarity with our Founders.)

Norris endorsed Mike Huckabee for president in 2008.

You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support.

You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America, and culturally you are not an American.

Norris, of course, joined the Air Force at age 18 and spent his early adulthood in South Korea, and he pays for his current lifestyle by selling the Total Gym. So no one doubts his American-ness.

The Norris endorsement comes just days after former Arkansas governor and Iowa Caucus winner Mike Huckabee formally endorsed Vander Plaats at a fundraiser in Spirit Lake. Norris was a big supporter of Huckabee’s presidential campaign. Vander Plaats was Huckabee’s Iowa chair.

In the column titled “3 Amigos Who Fight for America,” Norris also announced his endorsement of John Kasich in the Ohio gubernatorial race and Roy Moore — you remember him — in the Alabama governor’s contest.