Who Hearts Huckabee? (Yes, I've Used This Headline Before. I Like It.)
by Ryan Sager
Sat, 11 Aug 2007 at 3:16 PM
updated Sat, 11 Aug 2007 at 3:18 PM
Mike Huckabee comes out swinging hard at Mitt Romney: "I can't buy you. ... I can't even rent you."
But, he says, Iowans have an opportunity to prove that they are mature voters, thoughtful and savvy about the process — voters who know they are buying the cereal, not just the box. (Ouch, another Romney jab.)
Here's some pandering: You think it's bad depending on foreign oil, Huckabee asks? "Wait until our country messes up and has to depend on foreign food." (You'll be waiting a while, I think. But I guess the farmers like to hear this sort of thing.)
He also had possibly the best one liner of the day, noting that: "A Republican in Arkansas feels about as out of place as Michael Vick at the Westminster Dog Show."
UPDATE (2:15 p.m.): The end of Huckabee's speech is really odd. Huckabee talks about bringing his daughter to the Israeli Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem. In the guestbook, his daughter wrote: "Why didn't somebody do something?" Well, he tells the crowd, "Right here in Ames, Iowa, you're the somebody, you can do something." (So, let me get this straight: Voting for Huckabee = preventing the Holocaust? Somebody explain this to me... seriously.) The evil they would prevent: "[electing] a president based on the raising of money."
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