Posted on 01/12/2008 7:14:42 AM PST by TornadoAlley3
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. Asked about Fred Thompsons hatchet attack against him at Thursday's Republican debate, Mike Huckabee joked to Joe Scarborough that he thought Fred needs some Metamucil. I think it would help a lot if he gets some. You know, he was in a bad mood last night.
On the bus with reporters on Route 96 in Michigan from Lansing to Grand Rapids, Huckabee explained his Metamucil comment saying, You have to understand the context of the show .Its not quite as irreverent as Imus not quite Stephen Colbert but its serious topics with an edge.
I really do believe if people cant have some sense of humor as they approach this stuff, then it causes everybody to be so locked down and consultant driven that their campaigns become so boring because all theyre going to do is give this robotic answer to everything thats very carefully scripted. I promise you, you wont have moments like this, Huckabee said, gesturing to the handful of reporters that had gathered around him for an on-the-record conversation that would last about 40 minutes.
Does Romney do these? Huckabee asked the reporters. No, replied one. Neither does Thompson, said another.
If I thought I couldnt be a human being. That I gotta wait till six handlers tell me what I can and cant say and I have to read it, you know, its not worth it.
maybe fred was right, maybe he wasn’t. But huckabee’s response does not make him the devil incarnate.
If the Metamucil joke is the best he can do, than humor is not his strength. When Fred responded to Michael Moore AND said some of the one-liners from the debate, THEY were funny. Huckabee’s comment just isn’t.
If he can’t do humor, then he should attempt to respond non-defensively and stay positive...this comment shows that he can’t. It’s obvious that what Thompson said to him hit home...
I’d have a very hard time voting Republican this year if Mike Huckabee is anywhere on the ticket.
Yep, I knew there was something that didn't sit right with me. His true colors are starting to show.
Then perhaps it was scripted.
Personally I never said it did.
Exactly.
Freds hatchet was the “truth of policy hatchet”. Huck cannot refute it, so he resorts to silly little personal attacks.
Huck is no better than the lowliest politician.
I think of him like the ambulance chasing attorneys in the movie “The Client”.
Hucky boy.....In a month you'll be Rodney Dangerfield, because you'll have no one's respect.
Fred’s response should have been: “And, you need to take the Dial A Pizza number away from that pig fat family of yours.”
I wonder the same thing.
I'm just a friendly, illegal immigrant loving, tax raising, enemy appeasing and lying Christian man...
RP is attacked (actually questioned) on his utterances.
He maybe a perfectly fine man but he is not fit to be commander in chief.
Southern women in particular should see right through him. Bless his heart. ;)
But I know a number of them willing to let it pass because he’s “one of them”.
Ding Ding Ding... we have a winner.
Well?????
Next time Fred should just hold that photo up of the Huckafamily in the striped shirts, nod his head at it, and say nothing! LOL
Apart from being wrong on most of the issues, Schmuckabee has the wrong temperament for the job of America’s Chief Executive. His comment was childish and lacked the dignity and self-restraint required for the office he’d like to hold.
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