Huckabee felt costs of campaign

Huckabee 2008Mike Huckabee, still on his 64-city tour to promote his book “A Simple Christmas,” had bipartisan criticism for some of his fellow contenders for the White House in 2008, noting that while he was trying to figure out how to cover his house payments and health insurance while campaigning, he also “was paying their salaries to run against me” and helping cover their health care and pensions. “Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Tom Tancredo, Sam Brownback, John McCain — name ’em all,” Huckabee told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “They all had government jobs. They never showed up for work. And they kept their jobs. If you did that, do you think you’d still get a paycheck?”

15 Comments

  1. DorisKing
    Posted November 24, 2009 at 6:20 am | Permalink

    FCK him.

  2. Monkeyhawk
    Posted November 24, 2009 at 6:42 am | Permalink

    The Huckster bemoans when –

    “…he was trying to figure out how to cover his house payments and health insurance….”

    Like no one else has ever faced that problem.

    What a bunch of narcissistic whiners CONs prove themselves to be.

  3. Posted November 24, 2009 at 6:58 am | Permalink

    Now Huckabee is whining about how things are stacked against him? Fox News didn’t pay him enough? Cry me a river…

  4. Monkeyhawk
    Posted November 24, 2009 at 7:09 am | Permalink

    There are plenty of viral videos available about Moose-olini’s fans waiting for their moment of Caribou Barbie autographing her book.

    The Huckster has to be wondering how and why he’s losing to her.

    Poor guy. He lost 300 pounds (although he’s growing back to Taft-ian girth), should have a leg up with Baptists, but he can’t get any traction against twice-born tea-baggers.

    Welcome to the future, Repubic Party.

  5. Regular
    Posted November 24, 2009 at 8:22 am | Permalink

    It’s true.

    O’BAMA was a 150 day Senator when he started to run for President. It was paid vacation for him to wine and dine at the expense of the taxpayer.

  6. Phantom
    Posted November 24, 2009 at 8:49 am | Permalink

    Name ‘em all, you forgot the biggest malingerer, Brownback.

  7. Phantom
    Posted November 24, 2009 at 8:51 am | Permalink

    Oh, guess brownback was on the list, good.

  8. Phantom
    Posted November 24, 2009 at 8:53 am | Permalink

    Well huck, what about the tens of millions that worry about getting health ins. they can afford everday, have you been trying to promote the health care bill lately?

  9. charleskhyter
    Posted November 24, 2009 at 12:16 pm | Permalink

    What a hip . . He ran for two four year terms while serving as govenor and continued to cash his paychecks and accept his medical benefits.

  10. FORD1ST
    Posted November 24, 2009 at 1:32 pm | Permalink

    What a bunch of dummies, you just don’t get it.

  11. BlueJay
    Posted November 24, 2009 at 4:52 pm | Permalink

    HOW can ol Huck’s countenance be so fallen?

    I mean, he won KANSAS in the primaries. How much can a man expect in a lifetime?

  12. BlueJay
    Posted November 24, 2009 at 4:56 pm | Permalink

    Lord, bring him home. He won KANSAS!

  13. Phantom
    Posted November 24, 2009 at 10:35 pm | Permalink

    Huck could probably be gov. again if he moved to ks., but then brownback wouldn’t get to burnish his credentials for his next pres. run., which might well be before his term was over. He’d pull a palin, America loves a quitter!

  14. Monkeyhawk
    Posted November 24, 2009 at 10:42 pm | Permalink

    “Phantom” –

    It’s more like CONs love a whiner.

    They’re so oppressed. We’re waging a War on Christmas! If sick people weren’t meant to go broke for being sick, God wouldn’t have made ‘em sick!

  15. chooseaside
    Posted November 26, 2009 at 10:02 pm | Permalink

    “Now Huckabee is whining about how things are stacked against him?”

    ***You can call it “whining” if you like but I think it was a very accurate observation. Do you really think the American Taxpayer should be paying these people the big bucks to support their run for another office? Like he said: “They never showed up for work. And they kept their jobs. If you did that, do you think you’d still get a paycheck?”

    HECK NO, you would be fired.