Huckabee has tough talk for Palin

Politico ^ | July 5, 2009 | Ben Smith

[Bratch]

Mike Huckabee, himself once an object of significant media attention, has always chafed a bit at Sarah Palin's rise. And in two different bytes on "Fox News Sunday" today he didn't mince words about her decision to resign.

"In a primary this is going to be an issue she'll have to face. Will she be able to withstand the pressure?" he asked.

And, referring to the ethics inquiries Palin faces, Huckabee said of his own time as a GOP governor in an overwhelmingly Democratic state:"If that had been the case for me, I would've quit in my first month. If she's looking to be a national political figure, it's not going to get easier."

[Bratch]

"If that had been the case for me, I would've quit in my first month."

But it wasn't the case with you, Mike. Real easy to criticize from the sidelines, isn't it?

[pennboricua]

Boy are they scared!

[Jeff Head]

Palin has made a very strategic flanking move on the DNC, the MSM, and the politcal establishment as a whole.

I applaud her for it, and she has my support.

[ABQHispConservative]

Ahhh, Huck is afraid of Sarah. He know that she would clean his clock in the primaries.

[silverleaf]

When I listen to Huckabee, I think a used car lot somewhere is missing its top salesman.

[RichInOC]

Mike, if God had truly meant you ever to be president, He wouldn’t have set you down in Hope, Arkansas, nine years after Bill Clinton. Sorry. Bubba tainted that well. What fluid he used I’ll leave to your imagination.

[onedoug]

‘Back to your squirrels Hucked.

[Lurker]

Huckabee, you're a two bit huckster who should be working as a Carnival barker somewhere.

You and your phony baloney big government 'conservatism' are what got us into this mess.

Now sit down and STFU.

[alicewonders]

Shut-up-a-bee Huckabee. It’s a whole new ballgame now and you are yesterday’s news.

[silverleaf]

Don’t forget her mssion to continue to smoke out those RINO’s. What a wasteland the so-called GOP intellectuals turned out to be.

Who will make more money and reach more people next year: Sarah Palin, citizen, or Peggy Noonan, “political commentator”

[bray]

Yet he would give his first son to have her on his show.

Pray for America and Gov Palin

[freeangel]

Yhe huckster doesn’t get it any more than the dems.

[wolfpat]

When I listen to Huckabee, I think a used car lot somewhere is missing its top salesman.

The impression I get is that he's more like a funeral director.

[nomoremods]

Apparently someone needs to remind Huck that he was found guilty in 5 of his ethics violations and Sarah is still sitting pretty at zero.

Huck: 5 of 16
Sarah: 0 of 15

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,313384,00.html

[Arkinsaw]

But it wasn't the case with you, Mike. Real easy to criticize from the sidelines, isn't it?

I am no Huckabee fan, but it was the case with him.

If I recall correctly he had his office door nailed shut, and another he had his office furniture removed on a technicality. He faced a host of ethics complaints during his time as Lt. Gov. and Gov.

[NonValueAdded]

It's a damned shame you didn't quit in your first month, Huck. You held on just long enough to ensure McCain was our nominee. Thanks a pant-load.

[SERKIT]

SARAH’S HIGHER CALLING:
Sarah Palin would do more for the nation - in my opinion – by taking over the RNC and kick Steele to the curb. She could get much more done for this nation as opposed to running for office - but that could come later...

This would:
* Bring conservative principles back to the RNC (small government, get government out of our lives, lower taxes, 2nd amendment support, state's rights, small business support, lower taxes, strong defense, no-nonsense foreign policies). Conservatism works every time it is tried.

* She could be a credible spokesperson for energy, drilling, etc in light of sane environmental initiatives.

* She could, on a daily basis, take the wind out of Barry's Marxist sails on a host of his anti-American issues (bank take-overs, nationalization of large sectors of the economy, socialism, class warfare, generational theft, bigger government, job killing). Her media appeal would take away from the daily barrage of "new plans" put out ad nauseum by Barry, Rahm, Steffy, and 'Astro-Turf' Axelrod. She would be a countervailing force to the crap we get from the White Crib on a nearly hourly basis. If Republicans embraced the Twitter, Facebook, MySpace internet viral communications, it would be a direct hit against Barry's minions.

* She could - and this is the biggest reason she should take over the RNC - help with a 1994-esque take-over of both houses and start blocking the hopey-dopey-changey-strangey crap we have seen for the last 6 months.

The Presidency would be OK for her later on, but short-term we need to do things that set the stage for long-term solutions, that is, GET THE SENATE BACK (which will run to the SCOTUS issues), get the HOUSE BACK (which runs to spending and social engineering issues).

We need to be strategic, not knee-jerk, and Sarah may be an important rallying point to meet these objectives AS THE HEAD of the RNC.

But I could be wrong....

[Jeff Head]

This very move by Palin is smoking out the RINOs in droves.

[carmody]

Of course he has tough words for her. She’s his opposition. He’s not about to support her.

[DGHoodini]

There are a lot of things I like about Huckabee...but I have never considered him to be one of the sharpest knives in the kitchen.