Posted on 01/12/2008 7:14:42 AM PST by TornadoAlley3
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. – Asked about Fred Thompson’s “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….It’s not quite as irreverent as Imus…not quite Stephen Colbert but it’s serious topics with an edge.”
“I really do believe if people can’t 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 they’re going to do is give this robotic answer to everything that’s very carefully scripted. I promise you, you won’t 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 couldn’t be a human being. That I gotta wait till six handlers tell me what I can and can’t say and I have to read it, you know, it’s not worth it.”
Perhaps it has something to do with the attitude and what is considered acceptable in Hope, Arkansas.
Reagan always wore his jacket in the Oval Office out of respect for the office and his predecessors.
Bill Clinton used the Oval Office as a brothel.
Mature adults don’t engage in childish and petty attacks.
Mike Huckabee does because it makes him “edgey” and ‘real’ as he tries to get buddy-buddy with his new-found friends in the MSM.
He certainly has the class, style, and respect of Bill Clinton. He shares similar ideas on foreign policy too.
One man's hatchet is another man's legitimate questioning of Huckabee's idiotic policy ideas and abominable liberal record.
I sincerely suggest that Mike Huckabee needs to grow up and learn to start taking punches like a man.
That comment was so NOT presidential and VERY immature.
In fact, I don't know why SNL or MADTV doesn't do a whole sketch on Huck saying one little quip after another...quoting one President or author after another (and never really SAYing anything in the process) until we all can't stand it...
I'm at that point now.
LLS
I’ve been here many years longer than you have....
That is because he is not a candidate, he is a joke that wants to get us killed...
Bet we can guess who was taking Metamucil after the debate??
Pray for W and Our Troops
I think I’m going to make a t-shirt. “Hey FRED, Drink some Metamucil” :)
elephant08 Since Jan 12, 2008
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IBTZ
Huckabee represents a very common type of religious adherent:
the hypocrite.
HUCKABEE
The Repuublican Bill Clinton.
There are a thousand things that could happen to change the course of this election cycle. So, no one really knows what is going to be the final outcome.
Because Huck's an immature, babyish fool who has no concept of things like "gravitas", "maturity", or "tastefulness"? Because Huck is a liberal who has no concept of foreign policy, and who's economic agenda would turn us into a third world country if it were followed through to it's logical conclusions? Sheesh, I don't see why Huck doesn't just call Fred a poopyhead now, and be done with it.
It's not hatred, you think supporters of Thompson and Hunter hate the Huckster?
I find it easy to separate the man and his politics, Huck may be a nice guy but we don't want or need a RINO as POTUS.
Looks like you forgot which site your posting on, FR is for Conservatives.
I am not willing to vote for Huckabee because some think of him as a centralist and more electable.
Fred is eminently more conservative, sometimes all a man has is his princlples and I am not willing to sacrifice them.
Huckabee voters say "he's like me"....yep, a hypocrite.
Could have been “a lot of years ago”— makes no difference. Approximately 1% of televangelists have anything but money on their minds. (One’s definition of “televangelist” comes into play here.)
We have a life, and a life style we want to protect. Your bumbling idiot of a candidate wants to take us down the same road the Christian Democrats have taken Europe.
If you were a conservative that would make you mad as hell. Since it does’t, well...
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