Huckabee's wife takes a breather at a Vegas fight, rests at Hooters

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 2/21/8 | Carla Marinucci

[SmithL]

What happens in Vegas doesn't always stay in Vegas - especially if you're the wife of a presidential candidate. Just ask Janet Huckabee, who attended a middleweight prize fight this past weekend in Las Vegas - where she stayed at the Hooters Casino Hotel.

That eye-opening combination - a title bout in Sin City, which celebrates gambling, drinking and all things wild, along with a hospitality chain favoring buxom waitresses in low-cut garb - could potentially shock the armies of evangelical conservative Christians who have made her husband, the former governor of Arkansas, the only remaining GOP opponent to party front-runner John McCain.

But Janet Huckabee, whose husband is also a former Baptist minister, said in a telephone interview Wednesday that her recent brief excursion to root for boxer Jermain Taylor, a longtime friend and fellow Arkansan - and her stay at a hotel that she said wasn't exactly her first choice - was supposed to be a rare respite from the often-brutal presidential campaign trail.

"It's a grueling schedule. ... I had been in Wisconsin and flew to Michigan, and Friday and Saturday I spoke 14 times before the fight," said Janet Huckabee, who called a Chronicle reporter while traveling with her husband in Dallas in response to questions about the trip. "There's little time for anything other than campaigning."

She has made no secret of the family's support for Taylor, the middleweight boxing champ known as the "pride of Arkansas," who had a title bout against Kelly Pavlik in Vegas over the weekend.

But she said she never planned on staying at Hooters for the hot-ticket fight, which also drew such celebrities as Jack Nicholson, Michael Jordan, Eddie Murphy and Sylvester Stallone.

[pepperhead]

Evangelicals aren’t supposed to go to Hooters?

No I think they are supposed to go to Toot's instead. ;)

[NonValueAdded]

Bakersfield

[ravingnutter]

11 posts with no pictures. This place is falling apart.

Janet Huckabee:

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Hooters Hotel:

If you want a picture of Janet in a Hooters outfit, you're on your own, but please warn us first.

[Liberty Valance]

ROFLMAO!!!

[colorado tanker]

Sophisticated San Franciscans don’t know people go to Hooters for the wings and burgers. :-))

[Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh]

I don’t get it. Why would evangelicals have a problem with las vegas (gambling, drugs, prostitution, sin city) and Hooters (objectification of women, commercialization of sex).

It’s not like Vegas and Hooters stand for anything shunned by the Bible.

[BunkDetector]

Right.
And Mike reads Playboy for the articles.

[rickomatic]

Yea...and howabout that Jesus guy? Remember him? That guy hung around with theives and prostitutes, and foul mouthed fishermen. What’s this world coming to anyway?

[UCFRoadWarrior]

SF Chronicle probably upset Mrs Huck didnt stay at the Lavender Lodge and eat at the Brokeback Mountain restaurant

[livius]

I think UCFRoadWarrior has figure out the Chron’s REAL complaint...

[Corin Stormhands]

My seven-year-old nephew had his birthday dinner at Hooters.

[colorado tanker]

And Mike reads Playboy for the articles.

Of course, doesn't everyone? :-))

[Skip Ripley]

Well...Jermain Taylor fared about as well as Mike did. He finished second in his fight this weekend.

[Checkers]

[Red_Devil 232]

I don’t understand why a woman would want to attend a middleweight prize fight after such a grueling campaign schedule. I guess she was not invited to the Caymans?

[cubreporter]

That’s what I say. “So what?” All these people need to mind their own business. She’s a nice lady. Leave her alone. Wish we could check into the lives and doings of the nosey reporters like they do everyone else. Bet it would open up many cans of worms. Go Mrs. Huckabee. I like your style and spirit.

[Old Professer]

They made her wear a sweater?

[apocalypto]

Big mistake because of the source of her husband’s support.

[Old Landmarks]

The liberal hypocrisy. They spend all their time claiming that there is nothing wrong with immodest dress, drunkeness, fornication, adultery, drugs abuse, lasciviousness and the parts of cities that promote these things.

They then condemn conservatives (especially Christians) who continue to call many of these things 'vice' or sin.

When some Christians venture into Las Vegas where these things are generally promoted, the left says 'aha', see there, the Christian viewpoint is wrong and the person, no, the entire population of Christians are wicked.

On the other hand, if the Christian says Las Vegas promotes wickedness so I will stay away, the hypocrite social liberal manipulates reality saying, ooooo, ahhhh, but didn't Jesus hang around sinners and it was okay with him? He must have approved of the sin of those unrepentant sinners.

Do these people ever consider that this lady was just visiting for a day or two, while there is a large population of Christians who actually live in Las Vegas year round.

You waste your time arguing with people whose mind is seared with a hot iron and whose heart is as hard as rock.

[cubreporter]

I don’t think the problem is finding a “wholesome” place to stay...I think it is in the behaviors of people themselves. Anywhere can be bad and anywhere can be good. It’s all up to the individual.