Posted on 01/03/2008 3:40:03 PM PST by Mike Bates
Amanda Carpenter files this report from the ground in Iowa:
At a hole-in-the wall Des Moines eatery, Mike Huckabee’s campaign chairman loudly bashed their top rival presidential candidate Mitt Romney and made several predictions to two national television reporters.
I overheard Rollins’ conversation while dining in a restaurant called Winston’s located close to Huckabee’s Iowa headquarters and took notes on my computer. Below is a compilation of what I heard:
-He distinctly talked about going negative in South Carolina and told someone on the phone to “put some good in there if you have to, with the bad. Do what you gotta do.”
-Rollins let the f-bomb fly twice and told his blonde female dining companion a joke about flying the Confederate flag in the South Carolina state capitol.
-Rollins indicated several times their campaign was the victim of “dirty tricks” and that they were being unfairly outspent.
-Rollins also criticized another candidate as believing the Presidency was “their birthright.”
-Rollins made a phone call to Lou Dobbs and said he would ready to have drinks with him after Iowa to talk about Hillary. There also was a reference to Rollins’ recent comments about wanting to knock Romney’s teeth out, as Rollins told Dobbs “they are all porcelain.”
-Rollins also called Andrea Mitchell and predicted Obama would take Iowa tonight. He called Mitchell “sweetie” several times.
-Rollins believes Rudy Giuliani is “done,” “has no money,” and was “hurt terribly by those police cruises with his girlfriends.”
-Rollins called said Fred Thompson was “as disgrace as a candidate. Fred has been a friend a long time, but has never converted a single vote. No one is taking him seriously.”
-Rollins indicated he feels good about Iowa and that “all the sales are made, the customers just have to show up.”
-Rollins ate a tuna melt and carrot cake. His female companion picked “marbled rye” bread.
But, but I thought Huck was such a nice, Christian, family guy!
Go, Fred!
Not saying I’m pro Huckabee at all - But I can’t say I disagree with anything there.
Rollins is a whore.
“But, but I thought Huck was such a nice, Christian, family guy!”
What? You didn’t get the memo that said that attacks are only attacks when they come from campaigns other than those of Baptist ministers?
I thought Ed Rollins was part of the Ross Perot cabal in 1992. Correct me if I am wrong.
Tuna melt and carrot cake? Yech!
Do fine Christian family guys hire the likes of Dick Morris and Ed Rollins?
No correction needed. Ed was unhappy that Perot didn’t want to spend more money on the campaign. That’s a surprise.
You are correct.
Okay - you got me there. That is nasty.
Real men don’t eat tuna melt and carrot cake.
What? You didn’t get the memo that said that attacks are only attacks when they come from campaigns other than those of Baptist ministers?”
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Hmmmm.....good point.
With a campaign manager like Ed Rollins, Mike Huckabee doesn’t need enemies. What ever happened to Ronald Reagan’s 11th commandment? “Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican.”
“It’s a shame they can’t both lose.” - Henry Kissinger.
You are right.
Ed is a liar.
They can. ;OD
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