Huckabee Tries To Kiss Bush/Republican Ass With Reversal: Praises Surge
From CBS News’ Joy Lin:
SIOUX CITY, IOWA – Mike Huckabee stood by comments he made yesterday that despite his criticism of the Bush Administration’s manner of conducting foreign policy, he had respect for President Bush and Condoleezza Rice.
He added today the president should be commended for the progress that’s been made since Defense Secretary Robert Gates took over at the Pentagon.
On his criticism of the Bush Administration’s actions, Huckabee said, “It goes back to the heart of the Rumsfeld doctrine of simply ignoring what his best military advice was telling him – that we needed up to 400,000 troops on the ground and we limited the number at 180,000 and dismissed those military commanders who didn’t go along with the number and had that number in mind and stuck with it.”
“I think under Secretary Gates, we’ve seen a much more open mind and cooperative spirit that’s worked much better. The surge is working. Under General Petraeus, we have the right strategy, and the President should be given all the credit for that as well.”
On a political note, Huckabee tried to answer for a comment his new campaign manager made to CBSNews.com that “we think we’re going to win Iowa.”
“We’ve never said we had to win Iowa,” Huckabee told reporters when they asked him about campaign manager Ed Rollins’ comment.
“We’ve certainly said we need to be in one of the first three seats out of there – either first class, business, or coach. Now that Ed is wanting to upgrade us to first class automatically, I better call Ed and ask him does he have the frequent flier miles to make sure we get there.”
“We’d love to win here obviously. We’re playing to win, we’re not playing just to show. But as far as, are we out of the game if we don’t win? Of course not, cause we’re looking at the other polls. We’re doing okay in New Hampshire, not great. But we’re overwhelmingly leading in South Carolina, we’re actually leading in Michigan, and we’re leading in Florida.”
“We just know this, if we do win in Iowa, it is a true upset of the classic form to have been outspent like this and outmanned, to win here is huge and it would give us a great momentum going into the next several contests.”
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Good kee-ryest! The GOP has its own John Friggin’ Kerry …
December 26th, 2007 at 1:34 pmOh lord…
December 26th, 2007 at 1:38 pmIf the Huckter is still on the ballot here in Ohio he will not get my vote. I was leaning toward him but have since ruled him out because of developements over the past few days. Rudy, Romney, Hunter, maybe Thompson…
December 26th, 2007 at 1:46 pmWell, Huckabee is right, of course, with his criticism of Bush’s hardheaded holding on to Rumsfeld for so many years in spite of the mounting evidence that his policies were not working, and Rumsfeld’s stupid idea that fewer troops are better than more, now proven wrong by the surge that should have happened 3 or 4 years ago.
I share the skepticism of many with Huckabee, though, because he has done and said a number of things that I do not understand or agree with, like raising taxes a bunch of times as governor and making some remarks about foreign policy that sound ignorant or soft-headed.
I don’t see any of the Republican candidates as “perfect” in all respects, and none of them compare to Reagan, but if I had to choose today, I would lean towards Mitt Romney as the best among the bunch. The dim-wits party will never get my vote no matter what.
December 26th, 2007 at 1:50 pmA Chucklebee a day from the flim flam man.
December 26th, 2007 at 2:02 pmThis guy’s a liberal, why is he running as a Republican?
Earth to huyck- The United States of American was winning in Iraq the whole time, under Rummy as well as Gates. 30K troops surged in for months does not equal 400K troops there the whole time. huyck-a-bee is proving he cannot be trusted with the defense of the nation anymore than ms. edmund hillary.
The Sunnis turning towards the gov’t and away from al-q started in the summer of 2006 under Rummy. Major victories were won in Fallujah, Najaf, Mosul and elsewhere under Rummy. saddam was captured, his murderous offspring sent to hell as well as dozens of hi value targets were killed/captured under Rummy. Over half of the provinces were peaceful and handed over to Iraqi governance under Rummy.
So gates comes in at the end with the stage already set for victory, Gen Patraeus plans and implements the surge, not gates. But gates has an open mind and a cooperative spirit so that’s the only reason anything has gone right- yea, MY ASS!
If huck-a-lib gets the nomination, my doctrine will be to simply ignore him on election day.
December 26th, 2007 at 2:28 pmGates is only successful because of the finely honed tool Rumsfeld gave him. Rumsfeld had to clear away all of the old wood, who now appear on CNN and NBC to criticize the civilian leadership. We have upped the fighting capacity of a single US soldier to equal whole companies of other armies.
December 26th, 2007 at 3:16 pmI would rather vote for Hillary than for Huckabee. At least with her, you know the nightmare that would result. This idiot seems to be letting biased public opinion polls tell him what to do. The result is unpredictable at best.
Fuckabee would be a disaster of the magnitude that we just avoided in John Kerry.
December 26th, 2007 at 4:21 pmHuckleberry is a Republican Jhima Cahter.
I’m still with the real deal, Duncan Hunter. Border Fence builder, Commie killing veteran of two tours in the Nam. With the fight ahead to destroy Islamic Fascisim we need a WARRIOR PRESIDENT.
December 26th, 2007 at 4:33 pmFlip-flop, flip-flop, flip-flop, flip-flop, flip-flop, flip-flop, flip-flop, flip-flop, flip-flop, flip-flop, flip-flop.
Huck sounds like a highway flat tire.
December 26th, 2007 at 5:33 pmNice pic Pat.
Huck Norris.
December 26th, 2007 at 5:55 pmIrrelevant to me, already decided not to vote for him.
December 26th, 2007 at 8:37 pm