Huckabee Defends Joke About Fred

cbsnews ^ | 01/12/08 | Joy Lin

[kjam22]

maybe fred was right, maybe he wasn’t. But huckabee’s response does not make him the devil incarnate.

[t2buckeye]

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...

[devere]

I’d have a very hard time voting Republican this year if Mike Huckabee is anywhere on the ticket.

[mtbopfuyn]

Huck is a nasty/nice. Someone who says really unkind things but says them with a smile and so expects others to let them pass."

Yep, I knew there was something that didn't sit right with me. His true colors are starting to show.

[Jeff Chandler]

I think it was also a huge swipe at Fred’s age.

Then perhaps it was scripted.

[RockinRight]

Personally I never said it did.

[Cobra64]

I think it was also a huge swipe at Fred’s age.

Exactly.

[dforest]

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”.

[jennyjenny]

Sorry, I refuse to support someone who aspires to be 3rd grade playground bully. Your candidate is an embarrassment.

[catfish1957]

"It’s not quite as irreverent as Imus…not quite Stephen Colbert but it’s serious topics with an edge.”

Hucky boy.....In a month you'll be Rodney Dangerfield, because you'll have no one's respect.

[RetiredArmy]

Fred’s response should have been: “And, you need to take the Dial A Pizza number away from that pig fat family of yours.”

[Cobra64]

WHY WHY WHY are people falling for the Huckster?

I wonder the same thing.

[razzle]

I’m liking this guy Huckabee less and less every day!

[river rat]

Shucks, I was only kiddin ---- really!

I'm just a friendly, illegal immigrant loving, tax raising, enemy appeasing and lying Christian man...

[svcw]

RP is attacked (actually questioned) on his utterances.
He maybe a perfectly fine man but he is not fit to be commander in chief.

[kalee]

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”.

[nhoward14]

Ding Ding Ding... we have a winner.

[Coldwater Creek]

Well?????

[dforest]

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

[Bernard Marx]

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.