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Huckabee's wife takes a breather at a Vegas fight, rests at Hooters
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 2/21/8 | Carla Marinucci

Posted on 02/21/2008 9:54:36 AM PST by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: huckabee; mikehuckabee
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To: rickomatic

The guy, Jesus Christ, was in a state of perpetual prayer, fasting and optimal spiritual maturity and responsibility, the likes of which we carnal Christians cannot easily attain. Consequently, we have to watch our associations and not go alone into the “way of sinners” or the “congregation of the unrighteous”. We go in thinking we’ll be a good influence on them if we aren’t careful, but before we know it we quickly pick up their bad habits. Sorry, the girls at places like Hooters accentuate those breasts, and that causes the well-intentioned, tolerant man or borderline lesbian to lust in their hearts or worse.


81 posted on 02/21/2008 12:05:52 PM PST by Twinkie (Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God . . .)
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To: Twinkie

I hear you, Twinkie, but what about the beach or the pool or a ballet or a Hollywood movie? All of them have attractive women in various states of undress etc. The trick for a man is not to let his eyes or thoughts lie where they shouldn’t . . . you can’t help looking but you don’t have to stare.


82 posted on 02/21/2008 12:08:40 PM PST by Greg F (Do you want a guy named Hussein to fix your soul? Michelle Obama thinks you do.)
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To: SmithL

HAH! A woman after me own heart!


83 posted on 02/21/2008 12:10:22 PM PST by Palladin (Hillary plagiarized her fingerpointing and air-stabbing from Bubba.)
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To: pissant
Evangelicals aren’t supposed to go to Hooters?Evangelicals don't like genitals.
84 posted on 02/21/2008 12:11:43 PM PST by Rudder
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To: napscoordinator

WHOA! Not so fast! You may see the Huckabees in the White House yet, what with John McCain’s bimbo eruptions.

Don’t count Mike out yet.

Plus you Evangelicals on here are such hypocrites! Like no Evangies ever go after another man’s wife/ Or look at Playboy?

Give me a break.


85 posted on 02/21/2008 12:14:08 PM PST by Palladin (Hillary plagiarized her fingerpointing and air-stabbing from Bubba.)
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To: YourAdHere
Hooters girls generally wear a lot more than the typical Vegas cocktail waitress.

For what it's worth, the back of the costume for the Rio waitress consists of a thong strap under sheer lace. I know that from a recent visit where I spent a lot of time walking into slot machines, etc.

86 posted on 02/21/2008 12:14:48 PM PST by TC Rider (The United States Constitution ? 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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To: Greg F

Hooters has great Burgers and chicken, and the kids love all the attention they get from the pretty young ladies.


87 posted on 02/21/2008 12:15:01 PM PST by Palladin (Hillary plagiarized her fingerpointing and air-stabbing from Bubba.)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
Where is the wholesome place to stay in Vegas?


88 posted on 02/21/2008 12:15:31 PM PST by COBOL2Java (Vote for McCain! Mental health is overrated!)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

I guess.


89 posted on 02/21/2008 12:15:50 PM PST by cubreporter (I trust Rush. He has done more for this country than any of us will ever fully realize.)
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To: Palladin
Hooters has great Burgers and chicken, and the kids love all the attention they get from the pretty young ladies.

Especially the young lads.

90 posted on 02/21/2008 12:16:32 PM PST by COBOL2Java (Vote for McCain! Mental health is overrated!)
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To: TC Rider

Most Hooters girls are cute young things working their way through college.

This thread is a bunch of bull if the posters think they are impugning the Huckabees.


91 posted on 02/21/2008 12:16:37 PM PST by Palladin (Hillary plagiarized her fingerpointing and air-stabbing from Bubba.)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

Well, ya gotta live how you live and if you know you are not doing anything wrong.. I say...well,better not say it. Ha,ha.


92 posted on 02/21/2008 12:17:11 PM PST by cubreporter (I trust Rush. He has done more for this country than any of us will ever fully realize.)
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To: pissant
Evangelicals aren’t supposed to go to Hooters?

Hard to believe this post without any proper visual documentation.

93 posted on 02/21/2008 12:17:11 PM PST by 1Old Pro (I feel sooo calm, that I'll probably forget to vote for McLame.)
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To: pissant; SmithL

I suspect that, if the wife of any other candidate stayed at Hooters, there would be a lot more outrage from the Huckabee supporters. But I could be wrong.


94 posted on 02/21/2008 12:17:34 PM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: COBOL2Java

So? At least they are red-blooded (and probably conservative) Americans and not the liberal gay pukes that belong to Obama.


95 posted on 02/21/2008 12:17:37 PM PST by Palladin (Hillary plagiarized her fingerpointing and air-stabbing from Bubba.)
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To: COBOL2Java

Ugh, Circus Circus?? That place is way past it’s freshness date. Take the kids to Excaliber. Or better yet, leave them at home.

The idea of Vegas being a ‘family’ destination was born in the 80s and died in the 90s. Let it go, hire a babysitter.


96 posted on 02/21/2008 12:18:29 PM PST by TC Rider (The United States Constitution ? 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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To: Twinkie

Jesus also ate a lot. There are almost as many passages about him “sitting down to supper” as there are of Him praying.

He even rousted Peter’s sick wife out of bed to cook for Him!

I bet Jesus would eat a giant burger at Hooter’s.


97 posted on 02/21/2008 12:19:52 PM PST by Palladin (Hillary plagiarized her fingerpointing and air-stabbing from Bubba.)
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To: SmithL

Another leftist journalist who has probably never met an evangelical Christian.


98 posted on 02/21/2008 12:20:17 PM PST by Busywhiskers (Strength and Honor)
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To: Greg F
I just find it rather amusing that she would be so dumb as to not realize that staying at Hooters would make her look a tad hypocritical.

Maybe she thought the place was run by some environmental group. :0)

99 posted on 02/21/2008 12:21:07 PM PST by COBOL2Java (Vote for McCain! Mental health is overrated!)
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To: COBOL2Java

Whooters!


100 posted on 02/21/2008 12:22:17 PM PST by Greg F (Do you want a guy named Hussein to fix your soul? Michelle Obama thinks you do.)
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