(CNN) - Sarah Palin has complained repeatedly that she was given unfair treatment by the media during her rapid political ascent last year.
But Mike Huckabee – a potential rival for Palin in 2012 should they both decide to seek the White House – apparently doesn’t agree.
In an interview in the current issue of Esquire, Huckabee speaks sympathetically of Palin, saying she had been subjected to “sexist things that would never have been asked of a male candidate.”
But he pushed back against Palin’s assertion that high-profile journalists – particularly Katie Couric of CBS – were biased in their interviews with her.
“Now I must say I did not think that either the Charlie Gibson interview or the Katie Couric interviews were unfair,” Huckabee said. “In fact, if anything, Katie Couric was extraordinarily gentle, even helpful. [Palin] just ... I don't know what happened. I can’t explain it. It was not a good interview. I’m being charitable.”
Since losing his bid for the GOP nomination last year, Mike Huckabee hasn’t been shy about criticizing some of the politicians he might face in a 2012 Republican primary battle – but Mitt Romney has remained his favorite target. In his new book, Huckabee wrote that Romney was "anything but conservative until he changed the light bulbs in his chandelier in time to run for president.”
Palin, meanwhile, has appeared preoccupied with re-hashing the ups-and-downs of the last campaign.
In a recent on-camera interview with a conservative filmmaker, Palin remarked off-handedly of Couric: “Katie, you’re not the center of everybody’s universe.” The day after excerpts of that interview were released and drew enormous media attention, Palin’s office released a statement hammering the press.
“As a public official, I expect criticism and I expect to be held accountable for how I govern,” the Alaska governor said. “But the personal, salacious nature of recent reporting, and often the refusal of the media to correct obvious mistakes, unfortunately discredits too many in journalism today, making it difficult for many Americans to believe what they see in the media.”
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"..........making it difficult for many Americans to believe what they see in the media.”
Sarah is right: When I see her in the media, I don't believe a word she say's.
What a little whiner this lady is. She is a JOKE, and I for one, LIKE her still in the news, it's good to have a daily laugh.And at the same time it's humbing in a sad realization of facts, knowing that people in this country have elected her as a governor.
Wow, even Huck is smarter than her,now that IS saying something.
My advice for Gov palin is to visit the View. The ladies LOVE that show, I mean, Ann(Coulter) did go and boy, when we first heard this morning what had happen, we couldn't help but laugh, LOL!! And by the way, tell Ann to watch out for the ladies, those ladies will stomp on her before she hits the ground and tell Elizabeth(H) she should've seen the reaction on her face. When we seen that video, we laughed...and boy, did we, LOL!!
Tell Gov Palin I can make her powerful. Any other GOP, they're on their own but I'll help Gov Palin.
she is really showing her true colors, and also how she does retaliate against things so small.
This really puts on a light on the situation on her constantly pushing to get her ex brother in law fired. And then firing a guy for not firing him. Now this really sheds some light on her behavior.
She lashes out on anything and anyone that gets in her way or gives her a negative opinion.
She loves to retaliate and win.. she didnt win she is a sore loser so she has to insult Katie Couric and Tina Fey. I guess Palin thinks she is way too perfect to make mistakes or do anything wrong.
Palin is so sequestered up in Alaska, she's never had to deal with, or learn to manage, the American media as so many other candidates can do, to a point. As a Republican, I can say it was pretty scary how close we came to having her as VP. Let's not make that mistake again for 2012.
I really like Huck. He must be the only truthful Republican around.
The Hulk is an honest man. Too bad he didn't get the nomination. Not that he would have won against Obama anyway, but it would have been a more interesting match-up. He is 100% correct on Romney who just decided to be a conservative so as to run for the presidency. What is surprising is that the right wing nuts never saw it that way. Run again, Huckabee!
I like and respect Mike Huckabee and am still confused as to why he wasn't McCain's VP choice instead of Palin.
He would have attracted the same constituency Palin did (his success in the Southern primaries prove this), and as a four-term governor, the Democrats could not have played the inexperience card on him like they did on Palin. Plus, he is a funny, genuinely likeable man and an excellent debater, none of which describe Palin.
Please, NOT Mike Huckabee!!
If this guy had his way, women wouldn't be allowed to go out in public without covering their faces. We would all be home barefoot and pregnant and saying "yes sir, sir " to our spouses.
CNN, why do you keep publishing unflattering news about Sarah Palin? Are you really so petty?
The election is over. Time to move on.
Another preacher who serves two masters
SILENCE!!!
Now Mike tell her to go away Please:
When Katie Couric asked Palin How she kept up with world news and any other new sources. She could have easily named the “blogosphere” as a source, since she is so captivated by the bloggers information. I had to laugh when she finally named a news source 4 months later after the interview! Now that statement was something to archive, right next to the original interview! Just think going back on a test 3 months later and asking the teacher to change your grade because you finally figured out the answer! All her teachers need to be looked up and fired immediately! I guess she “winked” her way through school! Sarah needs to stop blaming others for her own shortcomings. CNN Please stop reporting on her she shows her stupidity everytime she opens her mouth.
Sarah Palin: You’re not the center of everybody’s universe.
CNN: Stop giving Sarah Pain coverage. Period. (typo intentional)
Perhaps Palin should let Joe the plumber interview her, they are a good fit.
She obviously needs a little perspective and help from some of her Republican counterparts. The first rule of politics is to know when to keep your mouth shut and let things blow over. Her behavior is juvenille and does not paint a good picture of herself.
As for Katie Couric, her questions were fair and she just let Palin stick her own foot in her mouth. She sounded more like a beauty pagent queen answering a finalist question rather than a seasoned statesman.
He is so right-----the prize of the White House must be "earned" and to travel that road is very, very, bumpy.
You may as well so ahead and say it Huck. We already know Palin isn't the brightest star in the sky, even if she thinks she is. She has the nastiest tongue and attitude and was happy to use it against PE Obama, but thinks she shoud be exempt from the same nastiness.
It doesn't work like that Sweetie. What goes around comes around.
i saw huckabee as a mean, vindictive man during the campaign and nothing he has done or said since had erased my impression of him; he attacked romney because he was jealous of his success, and now he is attacking palin because he is scared of the threat she might be to him when he tries to run again. his tv show is just a means to stay in the public eye and even that just shows that he has nothing to offer. huckabee, go back to arkansas where you might be a big fish in a small and corrupt pond!
Honestly, this is downright pathetic! she stated that her states proximity to Russia gave her foreign policy, then defended the claim to Couric. If my little sister had done that i would astonished. This woman needs to hit the books and shut up for the next 20 years, then maybe maybe she can sit across the table from a Hilary Clinton! Big maybe.
not a good look for Palin.
What’s the big deal he stated the obvious I think a kindergartener could have answered those questions better. I've heard kids with more knowledge of the world at lunch tables at my high school when I went. I've got drunk and had more intelligent conversations than that…. it was ridiculous. I’m sad it even took place. How stupid did America look that day.
to " cat" ... Go ahead and do the usual, demonize anyone who does not agree with you. Never mind that Huckabee is speaking the truth!
You go, Mike! Tell it like it is!
I can respect a Conservative like Huckabee. He says what he thinks and he means what he says. Most Conservative leaders say anything but what they mean. In Conservospeak,
"fiscal responsibility" means gutting child health care programs and giving billions to bank presidents;
"flag burning amendment" means "I think voters are morons."
"frivolous lawsuit" means "someone is suing a corporation"
"local control" means "we have the state legislature in our pockets"
Finally...a Republican who speaks a tiny bit of sense. What cracks me up is that you just KNOW people in her own party want to rip her a new one...but, they won't for fear of proving the Dems right...again.
01/20/09 – The end of an error
I have to agree with him. If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen.
The only Republican telling it like it really is!!!
When will she learn to just STFU? Seriously. Maybe if she weren't such a dolt in her interview, people wouldn't say it was terrible. It WAS terrible. It only proved she really has no business in national politics.
Oh please, I am sick of hearing how it was Katie Couric's fault that Palin looked like an uneducated fool. Couric asked legitimate questions that any national candidate should have been able to answer. Instead, Palin looked like a deer in headlights and provided the answers of a half-wit. It is not Katie Couric's fault that Sarah Palin couldn't answer legitimate questions, it was Sarah Palin's. And the McCain campaign too for that matter, who obviously did a horrible job in prepping her for the biggest interview of the campaign.
Huckabee and the rest of the Republicans can keep playing this lame finger pointing game, or they can regroup, accept what THEY did wrong, and bring their party back to their basic principles which were abandoned over the last eight years. It seems like they're going with the blame game strategy right now, which should help Obama's re-election effort in 2012.
Well put cat... I wish this guy and Palin would just leave us all alone.
“Katie, you’re not the center of everybody’s universe.”
Sarah, neither are you. So stop trying to be.
At least two masters, probably serves several.
Huckabee should remain a pastor in the deep south where his thinly-veild discrimination would blend right in. He's not presidential material any more than Louis Farrakahn was, or Sarah Palin.
Oh, I forgot CNN moderator, you don't post my comments because I don't much care for religious extremism or facism, both of which you seem to promote, for ratings if nothing else.
Hey Mike, you can't explain what happened and neither can she. But, who cares what either of you have to say? Go away no one is listening.
YOU MUST BE KIDDING–Huckabee considers Palin a potential rival for the 2012 primary. Are these two some of the best the Republicans have to offer? The GOP is heading toward extinction.
Even Mike Huckabee knows that Palin is a Whinner. Katie Couric only did what any other reporter would have done. Her quesitons weren't hard questions at all, they were normal questions that some reporters would have even asked an Actor in Hollywood. Palin stop blaming the media for your mistakes!
Mike Huckabee is an honest person...unlike Palin who is quick to start rumors about OTHER people, but cries foul when it happens to her. BooHoo!! And yes...how can TWO people be the "center of the universe"? Sorry Katie...it MUST be Palin ;(
CNN, bias and fairness are not the same. CNN Political Producer Peter Hamby wrote that Palin said journalists were biased. She is correct. Couric and the rest of them were much friendly toward Obama and Biden because they supported them. That's bias.
Huckabee said the journalists weren't unfair. He is correct. They weren't unfair because they interviewed all of them.
Bias and fairness are not synonmous and interchangable. Journalism 101.
I agree with Mike Huckabee, Gibson and Couric's interviews were fair. Sarah's negative comments about these journalists only proves she is not a credible national political figure. Palin needs to mature, or she'll continue to be compared to a spoiled brat after losing a beauty contest. "Caribou Barbie" needs to grow up and realize in national politics every candidate is fair game. No one is exempt from scrutiny by the news media or from being lampooned by comedians on Saturday Night Live.
If Palin, Huck, and Rom, are the Republicans best bets for 2012, then it is safe to say, Obama will be sitting pretty in the white house until January 2013!
Ooooops!!!! I meant to say, Obama will be sitting pretty in the white house until January 2017!
Mike Huckabee is disingenuous when he says the interview was "extraordinarily gentle". The interview was trivial and provided no new understanding into who Sarah Palin is as a Governor, candidate, or person.
It would be nice if the media would focus on fulfilling their responsibility to inform the public and pick up the debate at the level of issues instead of the one-liner.
I want a media that truly informs.
Palin is acting like she is still in high school...like everything she says or does is a popularity contest and if anyone dares to criticize or disagree with her, they are wrong, mistaken, and salacious and out for personal gain by bashing her. Her mentality is incredibly childish.
Huckabee knows who his top opponents are gonna be, and he's already firing the first shots. Romney? Yeah, I can see that. Palin? Mike, ol' son, you're overreacting a tad, here...
I don't often agree with the right wing religious nut, Huckabee, but this time I do. Sarah is and was pathetic in her intervirews and shows her total lack of knowledge on key issues.
Huckabee 2012!
He should stay on FOX News Channel, period.....The only thing that would have been good about his policy was, he wants to lay off all the I.R.S. workers, and just go to a percentage tax, across the board...............Which would be the fairest tax of all.....
Ms. Palin appears to be in permanent denial. Many did not vote for her because they checked into her record, and were not at all impressed with their findings. Her behavior and comments on the campaign trail were vituperative, and channeled the fear and hatred of McCarthyism...they were not in the least presidential. This posturing of hers is becoming rather obnoxious.
Palin need a life, she is a lie,get lost lady
the 'huckster' should go back to stealing in the name of the Lord and stop running for office. anybody who believes Palin got the treatment because she's allegedly a woman should remember what they did to Quayle
I totally agree with Mike Hukabee. A pretty honest man
How do you spell "irrelevant-once-removed"?
Huckabee – you will lose against Gov. Palin!!! Stop picking on her and stopping trying to get in her spot light!!!
Gov. Palin can sneeze and it will make news – as for you – I am sorry but no one is listening to you.....
Palin 2012
I wonder what his comments would have been had McCain/Palin won? Preachers should stop using the pulpit for "POWER" and personal gain. I don't trust any person of organized religion who becomes a TV star, politician or other type of celebrity. You cannot serve two masters!
Please CNN, NO MORE PALIN!!!! Huckabee not bad and he is very well educated but NO NO PALIN!!!
Mike, I've got an answer to the question of what happened, Sarah Palin was out smarted and out witted by a journalist. Plain and simple. Katie Couric for President!
What was sexist? Nothing. I am a women and thought everything was fair. It would be biased on to ask, we didn't know her. Its called Vetting. Has sara heard her statements of bigot, fear mongering? Get real lady. Huckabee, evolution is real.
For once I agree with Huckabee. Katie Couric was treating her with kid gloves. She was being gentler with her than I've ever seen any media person be with any politician.
A couple of corrections...
Sarah has not complained *repeatedly* – she just started now after the campaign was over, and she's saying it for the first time. Nothing unusual or wrong with that. It was very noble of her to wait this long.
She also didn't have a "rapid political ascent" last year: her rapid political ascent was already done by her when she went from citizen to Mayor to Governor. Asking a Governor or Senator to be VP is not a rapid political ascent, the ascent happened before she was asked.
Also, she does not seem "pre-occupied with re-hashing the ups and downs". She has said the minimum needed, but you refuse to see that and for some unknown reason make her first statements out to be perpetually nagging ones. That's your bias showing.
I no longer watch Katie Couric, or the View or SNL after the way they handled Sarah, and I have also thrown out all of my Matt Damon DVD's and Barbara Streisand CD's and no longer watch any of the movies made by actors who slammed Sarah Palin, including Whoopi Goldberg and Tina Fey. So even though the voting is over for now, I am most definately still voting with my dollar every day. I am also not buying products advertised on any of these shows.
I will not give these woman-hating actors a penny in royalties or revenue because of what they have unfairly done to Sarah Palin. The election may be over, but where my dollar is spent is still very much alive and based on not giving it to those who slammed Sarah Palin during the campaign.
Another too-far-right loon. Anyone that believes that the Constitution should be ammended to coincide with the teachings of the Bible will NEVER get my vote.
Take it back home Gomer, you don't stand a chance. The standards and the intelligence of the American electorate was raised much higher in the 2008 election. We won't be duped by a charming ignoramus again – we're finally getting rid of Bush.
I must say he is RIGHT about Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney.
Huckabee is afraid to speak the truth because he doesn't want to alienate all those right-wing evangelical pro-life creationists who supported Palin. So he equivocates. Until Republicans can speak candidly about just how stupid Sarah Palin was in all aspects of the recent campaign, they will continue to look like the Party of the Past. Huckabee does himself no favors by withholding his genuine feelings on this matter because everybody knows what he really thinks of Palin.
A house divided.... Okay now we have Huckabee trying to rally the base against Palin. What's next? I don't know which one is worse a so-called (ex) baptist minister who thinks it's funny for someone to be shot or that trailer trash who thinks it's okay for unwed teenage girls to have babies. Pathetic. Both of them. Neither of them stands any REAL chance of being president or making it to the final round.
Huckabee is a far more accomplished man than Obama could ever dream of being.
Thank you GOP! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Keep providing the Palin's and Huckabee's and a few Romney's. This ensures Democratic rule for another generation, because that's how long it's going to take to fix all the stuff you broke....And have you self-reflected yet....the party that uses 'personal responsibility' as it's mantra can't find 1 GOP politico that knows how to utter those words....Palin "not my fault", Bush "not my fault", and so on, and so...Again thanks.
Huckabee 2012 baby!
One would think that a Governor of any State would rise above all the critisism. Can you imgaine if every Governor or elected Official would come "crying" to the media every time there's something NOT nice being said abou them? Sarah "The Cheer-Leader" did her "thing" now it's time to get off the playing field Sarah.
If Huckabee keeps these attacks up, maybe his supporters will finally see him for the fraud he is. He claims to be some moral authority that is above dirty politics, but he is, in reality, one of the dirtiest politicians around.
It's bad enough Palin refuses to go back to Alaska and keep quiet.
Now, Huckabee wants a little love and a bit of the spotlight.
Are we going to keep listening to this drivel for the next 8 years?
If gop is smart....leave S. palin out of the future.
Huck is smarter than Sarah,I thought it was a tossup.
Well hard to believe, but I do agree with Huckabee.
I would enjoy a Huckabee vs Obama 2012. I think Obama would win if he does a good job the next four years, but it will be interesting. Huckabee is a very respectable person.
hukabee should not be president, but he know what's what. the truth matters. as for palin, she better find what she really want. she should hook up with ann coulter to form the most shameless pundit team.
Huckabee isn't qualified to shine Romney's shoes. This guy is an absolute joke and will say and do anything to put his political career above all else.
US media is never fair and balance. they have their own agenda and party to promote. Thats how they get their money. They are no different from mean wild dogs that will bite if you are one of them.
Palin complains that Katie Couric was too harsh. Come on.. It was a fluff of a question...What periodicals do you read? A trick question if ever I saw one. Duh. Define periodicals.
wow, CNN is obsessed with Sarah Palin. Reporting on a politician who is discussing Sarah Palin!
i love mike huckabee and even as a liberal
Huckabee is nothing but an opportunistic politician. When he's not kissing babies, he's stealing their lollipops. And to think, that he once called himself a Christian. Too bad he won't be able to go any further in 2012 than he did in 2008. At an end his role is and not soon enough it is.
He may be a silly creationist, but he's right about Palin: She's even dumber than he is.
I like Huckabee, but not well enough to ever vote for a Republican.
Huck has become full of himself lately, and his so called authenticity has turned to sloppy, political arrogance!
Everyone is nervous about Palin including Republican wannabes like Huck…!
Authenticity scares politicians. They are used to obfuscation and arrogant egomaniacs with diarrhoea of the mouth!
Coulter has a point – Huck is stupid! And he also lacks wisdom!
I can't even imagine the truth behind what really went on when the cameras weren't rolling. Palin not knowing Africa was a continent was just the tip of the iceberg. The republican party is scared to face the light, but what they need to do is own up to the fact that they made a HUGE and terrible mistake introducing Palin to the world. Now she won't go away, and most just want her to fade into obscurity. I hope more people come out and speak the truth about Palin so we know what we're dealing with in 2012. That would be a good start for GOP to redeem themselves.
See, now I may agree with no more of Mike Huckabee's ideas than I would agree with Sarah Palin's, but at least Huckabee doesn't trade in all the negativity and venom that Palin does...... No better case in point of that than their respective speeches at the GOP convention last year.
I simply cannot fathom living in a country governed by Palin, and her fascistic, petty-dictator ways. On the other hand, should Huckabee become president, while I would hate his more conservative policies, I don't think I would necessarily feel the need to flee the country.
While I strongly disagree with Mike Huckabee's philosophy on healthcare, I greatly respect him as a person. He is absolutely right. Sarah Pailn's interviews were anything but "unfair."
Sarah Palin created her own problems. When she was introduced at the RNC convention, she came out swinging, taking cheap shots, and talking at lot of smack. Then, throughout the campaign, she would say one outragous thing after another.
It's her own fault. She set herself up for the treatment she has received.
This is the only type of honesty that can save the party.
I still [HEART] Huckabee! I probably don't agree with any of his Conservative policies, but his decent common sense pov's towards everyone, regardless what party, is very refreshing... especially coming from a Conservative Republican.
Whats the matter? Get a pink slip already?
of course you know what happened mr. huckabee, she couldn't answer the questions because she didn't have a clue, now she wants to blame katie, charlie, and the bloggers.
Obama is done in 4 years, but I don't think either of these two clows will take him out.
[Palin] just …why dont u finish it Huck, she just wasnt smart!!
There, fixed!
Not a Huck fan, but he got this one right.
She is governor of Alaska, let it stay that way, McCain blundered in picking her, she is another George Bush (43rd), with of the socalled self righteous talk her teenage child ends up with child, if Palin is all you got for 2012, don't worry, just stay home
Very interesting....but stupid
"Pans – verb (informal) To criticize or review harshly." – Dictionary.com
Sorry, but this story is just a weak attempt to paint division amongst Republicans. I don't think Gov. Huckabee was criticizing in a harsh way. He was just stating the obvious, that Sarah Palin was not prepared for the questions asked of her. True, some of the questions asked were unfair, but she should have been more prepared. Huckabee for 2012!
Ron Paul is a refresh breath of air, especially in the presence of all the other politicians. That includes Palin, Romney, Huckabee, McCain, Obama, Biden, Clinton (either one), etc....
Only when I listen to Ron Paul do I get absolutely ZERO feeling that he is tailoring his message to please any part of the political spectrum. He's been advocating the same conservative (REAL conservative, not modern-Republican) principles for decades now, and even liberals like Bill Maher and Jon Stewart respect his consistency and honesty.
Just like her interviews, Palin just continues to make a fool of herself. Palin, here's a tip, take some responsibility for your ineptness and maybe you will earn some respect.
After 8 disastrous years of running the country into the ground these two (Huckabee and Palin) are the only ones the Republicans can put forth as potential candidates for 2012?
The Democratic Party should be prepared to run the government ad infinitum. They are the only ones with a coherent set of policies and respectable candidates.
The Wasila Hillbillies and Preacher Mike should stick to what they know...which is nothing.
PS: Sarah dear, get an education and learn how to speak English, you are a disgrace!
Typical of a "republican" that is trying to play it down the middle in hopes of a chance at the White House.
Mike just look at what that got John McCain.
Keep believing the hype of democrats that Repubs need to come to center to be effective and you'll be right where you are now,,,, out of touch with TRUE CONSERVATIVES!
As a Christian, Palin should forgive her detractors. Instead, she seems ready to skewer them. I never understand the religious right. They seem so un-Christ-like!
Let the republi'klans' feast on their own vomit and fight amongst themselves because that's all they're good at: being divisive & hateful!
But the good thing is that the american people are smart enough to move in a different direction after 8yrs of the worst presidency EVER!
jan 20th can get here soon enough! can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Divine Sarah is always entertaining. It would be fun to see her run for president in 2012. Were she to be elected, it would confirm the opinion of many, as exemplified in H.L. Mencken's statement made decades ago: "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."
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Barry:
You are creating infrastructure jobs that will not last forever…construction gigs last a few years maybe 7-9 at best…then what, back to square one unemployment???
And don't get me started on you "saving" jobs…exactly how is your Bill Clinton Cabinet calculating that one?
I mean, if you still have a job, it has NOTHING to do with you earning or deserving it…just know, the ONLY reason you are allowed to keep a job now is because Barry saved it for you. Complete joke.
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Couric was completely fair in that interview - indeed, I think she was taken aback by Palin's profound ignorance of the simplest issues in world affairs. Who wouldn't be? I was absolutely shocked at her lack of knowledge. Now Palin wants to say Couric and other well-respected journalists were unfair. Well, I believe it's unfair to the United States to have someone so undereducated in any high profile position - even as a candidate. She made of herself a laughingstock by her own refusal or inability to educate herself on critical issues - and things as basic as elementary geography - knowing that Africa is a continent, for example.
what does huckabee know? just bloviating.....
Palin was NOT treated unfairly in any aspect of campaigning.
She "dished out" MORE than she got back.
May her LYING lips burn in HELL!
For those keeping score: Obama was clueless about Tony Rezko's
"improprieties" in his own district. Jeremiah Wright's vitriole never fell on his ears and was completely taken by surprise by Rod Blagojevich's influence-peddling?
This is the man who is going to be prescient enough to manage two wars, curtail Russia's likely violation of the Monroe doctrine by sending ships to Venezuela, Stare down Putin if he decides to cut off natural oil supplies to Europe, quash Iran's nuclear ambitions, keep Pakistan in line, maintain goodwill with India, and have the answers to the Israeli-Palistanian crisis–which will take some doing becaused based on his wafer-thin voting record as Senator, Israel doesnot have a clue about what to expect from the guy.
Obama has already caused suspicion within the Arab world because he's backed off his promises to leave Iraq within 16 months. Many of those who put him in the White House are just a little peeved that he's not going to roll back the Bush tax cuts, and both Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have already given him the back of their hands publicly.
2017?
Obama's going to be a lame duck president by the mid-term elections when it becomes obvious that Carter was Lincoln by comparison.
Well, Suckabee still has his eyes on 2012. He just needs to go away with his fake conservatism. Take a look at his records as governor....scary.
Mrs. Palin, let it go. The election is over. The only people who mistreated and used you were McCain and his campaign. It's not somebody elses fault if you're too foolish to see that.
Wow, I must say no one on this site likes Palin. A lot of hate!!
Oh well,,, I am sure this will get censored like the rest of my entries here! CNN sucks!
CNN will keep perseverating on Sarah Palin until a new runaway bride comes along. So come on, all you brides-to-be, start running!
Mike is runnin in 2012 and is trying to take Palin out in a preemptive strike.
I'm almost as tired of Huckabee as I am of Palin.
I like Obama.
Thanks for your input Huckaboo
Does anyone else feel as I do that it was highly ironic of Governor Palin to say "As a public official, I expect criticism and I expect to be held accountable for how I govern" after she refused to acknowledge that the bipartisan committee of the Alaskan state representatives found her guilty of ethics violations? And Huckabee, you are correct that Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric were exceeding gentle with her - she just doesn't have IT. You at least, sound reasonable literate, and can actually string together understandable sentences, but Governor Palin seems totally incapable of doing this.
Keep telling the truth like that, Pastor, and you'll get yourself drummed right out of the Republican Party.
She who knows not and knows not she knows not....she is a fool, shun her!
I would not vote for him for President but I like Mike.
Any Republican willing to go on the Daily Show and not foam at the mouth is OK with me.
He's right. Stop whining Sarah. Huckabee is more of a threat than Palin could ever be. If Palin had so much power (as some Republicans believe) then whether she was on the top or bottom of the ticket, enough people would have voted for McCain and her regardless. But they lost by a huge electoral and popular vote margin!!!
I'm glad Huckabee is not treating this woman like a Messiah as the rest of the Republicans are.
mr Huckabee, did you pray before you opened your mouth?
hear, hear !!- patNY
“As a public official, I expect criticism and I expect to be held accountable for how I govern,” the Alaska governor said. “But the personal, salacious nature of recent reporting, and often the refusal of the media to correct obvious mistakes, unfortunately discredits too many in journalism today, making it difficult for many Americans to believe what they see in the media.”
WHAT!?!?!?!?!? Even with BIG words like salacious she is still all over the map trying to put a sentence together. Commas and periods in the wrong place.
Let's put this bimbo where she belongs – the has been section. She's not even worthy of entertainment.
How can Palin's stupidity and lack of intelligence on every issue during the election be the medias fault?
The only thing the media did was report Palin's own actions and comments. Palin made herself out to be her own enemy – not the media.
The media just told it like it was – Palin was and will always be one scarry (non-trustworthy) individual.
Sarah Palin sounds like an immature child. Unwilling to reflect on her disastorous public "roll-out" and blaming EVERYONE but herself. Grow up....you are not intelligent enough to be a world leader. Consider yourself very lucky your Governor of Alaska and leave it at that!!!!
Hey Mike, I know what happened and I won't be "charitible", she is a an idiot, a dimwit, a bush in drag, a former beauty queen who thought she could wink her way into the WH, a pathtic excuse for a mother, and a liar. There, I said it for you.
If Sarah and Huckabee run in 2012 god will have to preform to tasks by not letting these two win the election.As task from god one of Sarahs quotes.
Obama rules!
that's the first likable thing Mike Huckabee has done since I first heard of him. However, He's still quite the conservative wingnut.
Can Palin spell "nut-case"? You bechta that maverick, soccer Mom can!
I don't agree with Huckabee alot, but on this he is right on. Palin's arrogance once again shined when making the comment about Couric. Palin was the one that groveled for answers to legit questions from Couric. Maybe Palin should get a clue that she "is not the center of the universe".
Am I the only one who finds this fascinating? As the dust settles on the spectacular failure of their party, and with everyone admitting the GOP must be rebuilt from the bottom-up, the biggest Republican players keep jumping in front of a camera or a microphone to complain about each other and to whine about how unfair the world is.
This country has a lot of troubles right now. The last thing we need is to be distracted by the bleating of Mike Huckabee (whose crybaby interviews have been on an alarming upswing as of late) and the constant barrage of I-was-treated-unfairly, someone-please-love-me, give-me-a-chance-in-2012 whining by Sarah Palin.
Concentrate on fixing your party, idiots!
he was the one republican i would have voted for–too bad the right has a preference for ignorant whacko holy rollers
What I see in the media constitutes a good laugh when it is about Sarah Palin. She just doesn't get it. The only bad thing about the interviews with Katie Couric and Charlie Gibson and others was Gov. Palin.
Finally, somebody in the RNC was brave enough to say what we all know. What does Palin want? To be spoonfed? She's such a idiot.
I'm glad somebody from the right is actually coming out and agreeing that they were terrible interviews, instead of just hearing poor Sarah's whining.
Huckabee was my favorite Repub candidate in the primaries, I just wish he would have beat McCain. I still might not have voted for him over Obama, but it would have been a lot tougher decision than with McCain.
doesnt matter who the repugs run in 2012. they have becoem the party of the far right wing nuts. they dont meet what modern forward thinking americans want.
I think Palin should run for Pres and Huckabee should be the running mate
And they should never give up, run until 2020 because it is that important that Palin be given a chance
Har Har Har, I hope she stays on the national scene a long time
Mr Huckabee is wrong.....and a sore loser.
One of the most bias interviewers is news history is Katie Couric. She only appeared to be extraordinarily gentle and helpful while drawing in her prey.
As Mike Huckabe continues to criticise Mitt Romney and others, he shows the country what a little man he is and how ineffective he would be as President.
Sarah Palin was and is being treated with bias to the extreme. Even the 'blind' can 'see' it.
“Now I must say I did not think that either the Charlie Gibson interview or the Katie Couric interviews were unfair,” Huckabee said. “In fact, if anything, Katie Couric was extraordinarily gentle, even helpful. [Palin] just … I don't know what happened. I can’t explain it. It was not a good interview. I’m being charitable.”
I know what happened. She's an idiot !
Oh don't let it come to a choice between Huckabee and Palin, please! Not that I am worried, as Obama will have his eight years to straighten things out, especially if the repubs keep up this nonsensical behavior.
It's amazing how Huckabee is able to show sympathy ( “sexist things that would never have been asked of a male candidate.”) for Palin yet slam her ("Now I must say I did not think that either the Charlie Gibson interview or the Katie Couric interviews were unfair") at the same time!!
Showing sympathy to satisfy the base and slamming her hoping that liberals believe he shares their point of view. He hasn't forgotten that over 50 million voted for the ticket Palin was on, and that he also has to tap into that other 8 million extra voters Obama pulled in.
Political postering at it's best.
Obama in 2012 Clinton 2016 chelsea 2024 Malia Obama 2032
Why the heck are they talking about Palin running for president in 2012? As we speak, she is not qualified to be Vice President ,and still won't be in twenty years from now, so how the hell will she qualify to be president in the next four years. Are you people losing your mind; do you want to destroy America completely? I just can't believe this crap. That is why I say McCain needs to be arrested and jailed. The republican party seems to have nobody left to show off for. A woman who doesn't know if Africa is country or a continent, who ignores what role a VP plays, who didn't know that the world extended beyond Alsaka, who doesn't know what Hamas is, who ignores who are America's friends and enemies, who never answers the question asked ,is being considered for president of the world's most powerful country. If she can run to be president, I will run to be God.
Does anyone care what this guy thinks?
Huckabee is just ticked McCain used him to beat Romney; and Huckabee is ticked Romney is (let's count them down):
1. better looking
2. better educated
3. wealthier
4. a better Christian
5. is taken seriously when he speaks
6. etc.
Isn't jealousy a sin Mr. Huckabee?
Palin was ask simple questions she made the FOOL out of herself not the media. Once again is is best to be lable as a fool than to open your mounth and confirm that you are a fool. And "Huckabee" you will not be the person that the GOP pick to run for them there are too many other member of the GOP that want the job bot Obama will be in office for 8 years get over it.
Let them all kill each other.
Obama 2012
Let the Republican feeding on themselves begin!
Wow nice way to play the fence Huck! Those interviews were more than fair, Sarah is just a dimwit and she got exposed for the idiot that she is. And as for the 50 million who voted for MCCAIN, 65+million voted for Obama, that means Huck has 15 million to tap into, sounds like Sarah is on here trying to do math. The GOP better find away to get rid of Sarah or Obama will win 2012 by 25 million.
The repubs dream ticket:
Coulter/Palin 2012!
ga. needs to check into perdu.
Can't we just let Sarah Palin go away?
Why do all the commentators have to dredge up her nonsensical comments and consider them newsworthy?
Good for you Huckabee. I don't agree with you on social issues, but you do speak the truth often. I also liked how you stood up for Obama during the campaign and tried to tell your party not stoop so low. Palin is a fool to keep blaming others but she is completely incapable of psychological insight. Completely. It becomes clearer and clearer she most likely has some kind of personality disorder like narcissistic personality disorder. From the outside, she has all the criteria for it.
I'd like to see a real debate with Palin, Romney and Huckabee and throw in a few more Repubs. It would be hysterical....Palin could never answer serious question. But she would be giving more "shout outs" to the elementary schools in Alaska.
Yes "Arlene", the 'what newspapers do you read' was such a gotcha question.
Please Arlene Couric asked her questions a fifth grader could answer and she blew it. The only difference between Courics interview and Fix'd News interview was Couric's questions wasn't preloaded. Palin could not compete on"Who's Smarter Than A Fifth Grader" without looking like the idiot she is.
YES -- well said Mike.
( Mike in Philly – January 13th, 2009 4:44 pm ET
Am I the only one who finds this fascinating? As the dust settles on the spectacular failure of their party, and with everyone admitting the GOP must be rebuilt from the bottom-up, the biggest Republican players keep jumping in front of a camera or a microphone to complain about each other and to whine about how unfair the world is.
This country has a lot of troubles right now. The last thing we need is to be distracted by the bleating of Mike Huckabee (whose crybaby interviews have been on an alarming upswing as of late) and the constant barrage of I-was-treated-unfairly, someone-please-love-me, give-me-a-chance-in-2012 whining by Sarah Palin.
Concentrate on fixing your party, idiots! )
Rep., keep talking about Palin. Keep interviewing her. Keep defending her. You will make sure that we Democrates stop her from getting elected to a national office forever. Keep it up...
Huckabee and Palin. Comic relief 1 & 2.
The GOP was great for sideline humor. No one in their right mind would think seriously of replacing GW with a mini GW. John and Sarah lost and the GOP will keep losing as long as they think minorities are just photo opts and props.
The Dems are way ahead of you GOP, see you on the other side of the inauguration.
Let her do another inteview and this time we will slow down to read the questions to her. We will also translate whatever the heck she says so the average American can understand her gibberish.
Note To Sarah: If you want to represent the people, first you have to speak their language. Ah, that would be ENGLISH.
This guy is proof that separation of church and state should remain just that.
Arlene
Yeah, right. Those trick questions, like "what periodicals do you read" were so biased. Katie Couric was really out for a "gotcha" on that one. You betcha
Can't some of these people just go away. Please just give us a break for two years. There was a reason that they didn't win. If you can't get voted in, just go back home and tell stories. I like Mike, but he is a bit of a lightweight and I've always be a little uneasy with preachers who carry guns. I can't find any reference to that in any bible, although it will probably been the "GOOD NEWS II" version. If you don't plan to use a gun why carry it. I have to admit that it is a good way to come out on top in a good argument.
What a jerk. Does anyone think he's not promoting himself?
Mr. Huckabee , please go away. Maybe Fox News likes you- but I don't. You are just a copy of Sean Hannity. Who is a true idiot. We need more intelligent people on TV who report the truth not just another buzz saw making unintelligent noise.
So if Katie was hars and unfair, how is Palin supposed to handle someone like Putin? After Russia whoops out butt in foreign policy under a Palin regime will Palin go to the media and cry that Putin was harsh, unfair, and asked gotcha questions? This is not someone twe needed as VP and possibly President. I am a lifelong republican but voted for Obama this time around simply because i could not stomach Palin in charge. I am a soldier and to have Palin a heartbeat away from being my commander in chief would have been quite disturbing.
I voted for Huckabee in the primary. That said, he must have been watching a different Katie Couric interview than I was. Katie was totally hostile. Of course, Gov. Palin and her staff should have anticipated a hostile interview and been better prepared.
To Sophia: If you want to vote for Obama in 2012, please take him to Canada!
“Katie, you’re not the center of everybody’s universe.” ............and you are Failin Palin?
Even the GOP has to admit that Palin is a loser and opportunist. They hate it when they're wrong but they should be getting used to it by now! Obama's gonna win again in 2012 and Palin is going to continue to self destruct time and again between now and the next election. Palin is McCain's gift to the Democrats. Now it appears to be a gift that kees on giving! LOL!!!
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Sophia,unless you live in America,mind your own business about what goes on down here.Please.
With any luck the GOP with rid themselves of Palin, revamp thir party, and be ready, in a few more election cycles to offer a viable alternative to the new Obama Democrats.
If Palin stays on as the GOP poster child, and continues to embrase divisive, conservative politics, then the GOP is going to be relegated to the fringes of politics, and may never win another national election.
It will be fun to sit back at watch the GOP muddle through this process.
Palin isn't fit to be president of the PTA let alone President of the United States. And Mike Huckabee is right on, she wasn't treated unfairly by Couric or Gibson, and the rest of the stuff she's complaining about she brought on herself.
Go away Sarah. Go away.
This really isn't even a good headline on any level.
“But the personal, salacious nature of recent reporting, and often the refusal of the media to correct obvious mistakes, unfortunately discredits too many in journalism today, making it difficult for many Americans to believe what they see in the media.”
What media is she referring to? The National Enquirer?
Don't fight it Sarah. You'll only make it worse. I'm starting to feel sorry for you. Just stop.
Can these two just leave us in peace! Obama won, get over it!
Hey, Huck, why don't ya pick her for your running mate? Pleeease.
After reading these comments, I have to wonder- Who is divisive in our country? Yes We Can
There's a big food fight brewin' in the GOP cafeteria.................
If you actually watched the Katie Couric interview, you know that there was nothing biased about it. Couric asked a straight question, and Palin couldn't answer it. It wasn't even a hard question. And it certainly wasn't a trick one. Palin just flubbed. She has nobody to blame but herself. Good call, Huckabee! I still won't vote for you, but I have respect for you that you call 'em as you see 'em.
Arlene,
Please enlighten us by giving us an example where Katie Couric's questioning of was biased? Just one question would suffice. Just because Palin's answers were so unfathomably idiotic doesn't mean that Katie was biased. Katie asked Palin simple questions. Can you defend Palin's statement , "I can see Russia from Alaska" as an answer to Katie's question but her experience in foreign policy? Is a foreign policy question to a VP candidate biased, a trick question, or a gotcha question?
Sigh... typical right wing nut, lol.
Just come out and say it....say that Palin is an idiot and be done with it.
She really is an idiot...and that so many people fell for her lies, innuendo, racism, and her attacks against Obama, is just astounding.
Both Palin and her side kick Joe the plumber should just go away.
Stop giving them so much airtime and wasted ink.
The truth hurts and she will keep hearing truth.
Hucks wants 2012 all to himself. These guys will throw their grandma's under the bus.
Wow this is entertainment.
She never ceases to amaze me, Why can't she just go away ??
She doesn't speak with substance and thats a shame.
Sheesh...now Huckabee is jumping on the "Palin is news" bandwagon just to stay in the headlines.
Why are we even reading/commenting on this?
(And I include myself in that "we." WE are so lame and need to get a life!)
Huckabee feels his 15 minutes slipping away and he is attacking members of his own party to keep it going. Since I have little use and less regard for the people he is attacking I suppose I should sit back and enjoy it. Of all the Republicans who ran in 2008 Romeny stands alone in that he was absolutely the only one who could have been worse than George W. Bush. All the rest had redeeming qualities. Unfortunately for Huckabee his quality was like-ability and he's running out of that.
Dumb and Dummber!!!!!!!!!!!!
palin go back to alaska and do your job and stop worrying about the press. mccain was looking for a pretty face hoping to get the clinton vote nothing more nothing less. see it for what it was. you had no chance against obama even on your best day.
I never thought I would say that I agree with Huckabee about anything...but he is right about this.
Palin needs to stop whining to anyone who will listen. It was a softball fluff interview and I think even Katie was shocked that Palin could not answer the simple questions!
Bottom line is it's over and both these people lost. Get over it!
Huckleberry in 2012!
NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Palin need therapy
Thank you Mr. Huck. Please tell her again. Next please.
My college student daughter could have answered Couric's questions with more intelligence and aplomb. "I read whatever they put in front of me."??????
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
OMG! I actually agree with Huckabee on something (but nothing else).
Palin is here to stay. Huckabee realizes that. He's a type of politician no party needs.
Any of you know Biden's answers when asked asked the same questions? Of course not! For what does he read, his answer was the Washington papers, and some NY papers. After all his years in Congress with these reporters underfoot every day, he couldn't provide an actual name of a newspaper. Both answers were useless, yet his answer was acceptable and hers was trashed. The Supreme Court question was definitely a set up. Palin immediately responded she disagreed with Roe vs Wade. She was then pressed and pressed to name a second decision she disagreed with. Biden easily was able to reply that he disagreed with the battered women decision. He wrote the legislation that got rejected by the Supreme Court, so not a tough question for him to answer. Of course, Miss Katie knew he would respond about his legislation, which is why she asked them both the question. He was not asked to name a second decision he disagreed with and I doubt he could've named another one. Again she was ridiculed for not being able to name a second decision and he was portrayed as being brilliant while not even being asked to name anything other then his pet legislation that got burned by the Supreme Court. If the media had done half the job of ferreting out truth about Obama as they did about discrediting and ridiculing Palin every step of the way, Obama would not be prez elect. If someone said they'd once seen Palin pick her nose, the reporter would have been falling all over themself to report that as gospel truth. But if someone said the same about Obama or Biden, that same reporter would have required 10 independent confirmations of the fact before even considering reporting it, then would have discounted it as not important and not reported it. I wasn't thrilled with Palin, but I do think the media outdid themselves in biased coverage of her. I'd love to see a comparison of the resources spent by the media investigating Palin during her 3 months in the hunt versus resources spent investigation Obama during his 2 years on the trail!
I find it extremely annoying when people dog on Palin when its blatantly obvious that their only knowledge of her is whatever was referenced on SNL.
If anybody has a lousy show, it is Huckabee. Maybe he needs to straighten his own house up before he start on everyone else. Sarah Palin has said nothing about Huckabee and he should show her the same respect.
Most people hate Palin don't even know why they hate her. They hate her because someone told them that she was terrible. If you disagree with her then fine, but i would bet that 90% of people if asked what they find so repulsive about her, wouldn't be able to give a legitimate answer. America is full of ignorant sheep just waiting for someone to tell them who to hate. I just depressed myself..........
Huckabee's right, the Palin interviews were not biased, (Note to Palin: A female reporter doesn't usually ask questions that are "sexist".)
I must admit, I applaud Mike and hate him at the same time. I appreciate a lot of his efforts for a smaller government. I'm somewhat conservative in that regard. However, I am rather liberal when in comes to being against his ridiculous social policies that contradict every last thing thing he does as an actual conservative.
As for Sarah Palin, she needs to stop shouting out to elementary schools and start fixing them (Alaska'a listed as the 5th-worst state in education), or at least be sure she's as smart as the students in them.
I sincerely hope that the Obama administration will be only the
beginning of eliminating the entire evangelical religion in this country.
I still can't see how people even are still taking Palin serious. The best I can figure they must be looking at her legs or her rump because if they actually stopped to listen to her they would not want to have her in the highest office in the land.
Sure doesnt take long for republicans to bring out the long knives and stab each other in the back. Palin will bring about the demise of the republican party.
I don't agree with his political views, but he IS an honest man. He will never be President, but then, Palin won't either.......
Wow! an honest Republican. I can't believe it.
Arlene are you serious. Those were simple questions. Any child who reads will willingly tell about what he/she has read. Please stop making excuses for Palin lame interviews. She bombed big time. Ignorance has a way of shining through and it shined through Palin like a flourescent bulb.
So asking Palin what she read was a biased question meant to set her up? She could have at least said "Popular Mechanics" to get those Joe the Plumber votes, or "Guideposts" to get the conservative Christian vote.
I loathe Huckabee no matter what he says. He's in the same clueless and disconnected camp as Palin.
Palin/Huckabee – Republicans 2012, the Party of Hate and Discrimination. And Mavericks of course.
Huckabee selfishly kept the nomination from Romney, who would have won the election. It was a peevish personal problem. Despite all of his preachiness, Huckabee is a petty individual, and as a Presidential nominee for 2012, he'd be a joke.
For GOD'S sake why does she not shut up? Tired of her voice and GIBBERISH she spews from her unintellegent mouth. Please Get LOST
Sarah Palin, shut up and act like grown woman. Get over yourself and get a life.
Palin is a moron and is about time the Republicans accept it and forget her forever. Huckabee is a religious nutjob and another one the Republicans need to reject.
Come on Republicans....don't you have anyone who is a normal person who understands who real Americans are and what is important to them?
NO ONE cares about having religious values shoved down their throats by hypocrites who tell you what you have to do but they are the worst hypocrites themselves. I find this totally opposite from supposed Republican beliefs concerning personal freedom and government staying out of our lives. Either you are going to let the nutjobs continue to destroy the Party or you are going to stand up and fight for Republican values like getting rid of the Patriot Act, and prosecuting Bush and Cheney for intefering in the rights laid out in the Constitution for all citizens, for lying to Congress, the UN, and the People about Iraq, and for breaking international law on torture. These are very much interference and illegal acts that trample on my rights and have the government in my life.
Stand up for your real Party beliefs and get rid of the crazies. Either find a way to be relevant again or just disband for no normal American is going to vote for people like Palin and Huckabee and the fool who sent the offensive Obama song out to everyone for Christmas!
Okay, I'm not a Republican and I don't care for either Palin or Huckabee really but I do have to say she was criticized a lot for being a woman in this race. She was asked question like do you think it is hard to be a mother and work in politics which is something that is not asked of many and she was unfortunate that her daughter chose this time to get pregnant. While I don't care for it, teenage girls do have sex and not always with protection. At least Palin's daughter is taking responsibility for her actions and Palin's family isn't kicking the girl to the curb. But the thing that annoys me more than anything is the reaction people had to the newspaper question. Neither Biden nor Palin would name an actual newspaper because that would be the same as endorsing the paper. They have to be careful almost as much as Oprah about what they say. In fact Oprah could take a lesson from them.
Anybody else out there got a unwed pregnant daughter, gets excorsized by the witch craft preacher and can see Russia from your home?
the whole gop is out of touch and will continue to be voted out until they get out of teh stone age as far as ideas.
If Palin is going to run in 2012 then she will have to go through the primary process, including the debates. From what I can tell she will do well in the popular evangelical vote, but will not do well in the debates. Still let the process go forward.
Liberal intolerance on fine display here. Tell me again what your party stands for?
We don't need another back stabbing preacher. Huckabee's show is so bad, I thought he could go back to the ministry. Sarah Palin did nothing to him and he back stabs her, I have no respect for him.
And Huckabee .... is being very charitable. Palin has a huge ego and is terribly uneducated and in some alternative mental state as far as I can. Please join me and others at Facebook's Global group "Intelligent Women Against Sarah Palin". I am pro-life and not particularly feminist ... but cannot find a better forum with a group of committed people who want Sarah to stay in Alaska.
The republicans have caught the democratic party "disease".It's just great to watch them tear each other apart like the democrats were so good at doing.I just love to watch how quickly and how far the tables have turned.That's it.The new soap opera "As The Tables Torn" followed on limited cable in Alaska by the Sarah Palin "Cooking with Snowballs For Dummies" or "Whining With Snowballs For The Equally Incompetent".
Imagine how bad she would whine if,God forbid,she were ever elected to a position of some significance.The screehes would be 4 years of sound system feedback,which might not be such a bad idea after all.
Huckabee's 15 minutes of fame should be about over now too.Maybe he can go to the frozen north and convert Bullwinkle.
Bob, you need to seriously get a life. Knowledge of silly miss palin (no caps for her!) was certainly not just gleaned from SNL. We all (intelligent people) knew from the get-go that that woman was dumber than a door knob. If you do not know that by now, you're as dumb as she is, loser.
Sarah Palin is a comlete idiot. I hope huckabee and her battle back and fourth.
Steve... I hate her because she is an idiot who is seeking the highest, the most important job in the land, and because there are people stupid enough to want her it have it...
One idiot in the White House was quite enough... it doesn't work well, the job requires at least half a brain which completely rules Palin out.
Can't wait to see the GOP debates between Romney, Palin, Huckabee, Pawlenty and that goofball Guliani in 2012!
Will Guliani talk so GLOWINGLY about Palin as he did in the GOP convention?
Will he say she has more executive experience than himself?
They will tear each other up and Palin will be CRYING!!!!
No matter. Obama will crush whoever the GOP puts out!
Sarah Palin is just out of her league when it comes to serious national politics (she did, however electrify the nation – briefly and her base – until they lost).
Here's the burning question:
"think of all the talented and bright Americans who actually want to serve at the highest capacity with the US and see if you see Sarah Palin" enough said.
Huckabee's a likable religious bigot.
He would likely be a very bad president because he would try to infuse religion.
I don't hate Palin – she probably is a nice enough person. but I certainly know why I don't want her in a national office and my opinions did not come from SNL or what others told me to think. Her grasp of the issues was astonishingly lacking, not to mention the "pals around with terrorists" comment while basically inciting a mob mentality. Her present campaign of whining about the press mistreating her has not changed my view at all.
Sarah just go away!!
Huckabee is right, I saw nothing biased about Courics interview, Gibson perhaps , he was a bit harsh but seriously when ever Palin talks me and my husband start looking at each other, we dont understand her , she speaks in circles
Palin is not qualified but of course Huckabee has a bias, Palin needs to start governing her country. They lag in education and have the highest meth use in the country. Perhaps if she would just shut up , concentrate on being a good govenor and have something to show for it , she would appear more ready to be president
Did you notice the strings coming out her arms and head? Well if you follow the string upward, you will see a man pulling them... On closer inspection you might notice that man closely resembles Carl Rove... Or perhaps you just can't get your eyes off her chest long enough to see'em?
That was the idea... Just watch the pretty girl fellas, don't bother to turn the sound on, you won't miss anything, just watch the pretty girl.
Palin states an obvious fact, and the media keep dogging her hoping she will shut up. Trying to kill her reputation so she won't have a chance in 2012. I wish other public figures weren't so afraid of the media and the voting public (the sheep who believe everthing they see on network, cable and PBS. The same voters who believe every promise made by professional, power hungry, self motivated politicians. But, alas, there are too few who don't stick their finger in the wind to get a vote. Who promise the world to voters, and keep them under their thumbs until the next election.
There is REAL hope though. Truth always prevails. Hopefully it won't be too much longer. Our children and grandchildren can't afford to wait much longer. We're quickly heading to Third World Politics and Poverty with the same type politicians. A free media won't last much longer under those conditions.
The national media should be sued for malpractice.
NO SURPRISE HERE. THIS HAS BEEN A LONG TIME COMING.
Gov. Mike Huckabee has been biting his tongue for awhile. Now Sarah Palin has indirectly forced his hands. Sarah has forced Huckabees hands by hogging so much media time.
Huckabee has already started his "2012 Republican primary" run (informally) and Sarah Palin is stealing his media time and political exposure. For everyday she is in the news disputing events of the previous campaign that is another day she is on the front page while Huckabee is out of view. So Huchkabee is sort of saying to Sarah Palin, ". . . can you please take your 'nasty diva airhead attitude' back to Alaska, pleeeeeeaaasee".
Is this prom queen not the best thing that ever happened to the democrats? This brazen nitwit is the female second coming of George W. Bush....inarticulate, crooked, deceiving and arrogant...It' s almost too ideal. While Princess Palin is loved by the right wing nuts, she is despised by the 90% who make up the rest of the country. The repubs have nobody but Gomer Huckabee, Mitt the Mormon and the Princess. Her running for prez would be a perfect storm for the dems...Obama would win by 50$!
This discussion is a joke. Palin was and is extremely unqualified to be VP and couldn't answer simple questions such as "what do you specifically read." The interviews were not biased, sexist, or an unfair for a potential VP of the United States. Palin's response that these interviews are sexist is demeaning to each and every Women in this country that has and is struggling for Women's rights.
I shall now close this post with a prayer.God forgive us our sins and help become hateless in the future.
I agree with Mike ,
Palin needs to face it ,she screwed up on the interviews,and only showed what a clueless dingbat she really is.
The media can't be all that bias toward her,she's still giving interviews.
There you go! Even Huckabee cannot deny stupidity. Golly! It is going to be Huckabee and Palin running against one another. If that happens and Obama has done his 8 years, I will vote for Huckabee!!!
Please keep her back up there near her foreign policy experience living where she can see Russia and where she could possibly finish runner up to a beauty pagent...she is a disgrace to our country to even be considered as a VP candidate...she can't answer any real questions. She attacks and sets up the typical fear mongering which should be more aimed at her. If the Republicans, even consider her in 2012 then that is sad. Ethic viiolation, had to get married, daughter had to get married, and just shame with getting the hands touched at church...so sad...Palin just go give an interview to pardon a turkey as the others get grounded...Please, just continue to charge a per diem to stay at your on home and get the oil flowing to no where...and enjoy the ward robe you got for free and the trips for the family at your tax payers expense...please of please Go Away!
Oh please. Sarah Palin is a friggin bimbo. She said all those stupid things for the same reason she is continuing to say all those stupid things, because she is just plain stupid.
Ah politics and politicians. Can't live with them, can't live without them.
give it up Palin. You played with the big dogs and were bitten in the back-side...
Though I'm a Democrat, I respect Huckabee. The guy ran the most civil campaign I've yet to see–he never insinuated anything about his opponents that wasn't true. He is 100% correct–and very charitable–as characterizing Palin's interview with Couric as "not good." Palin is an airhead. She doesn't know the issues, she slanders opponents ("palling around with terrorists"–come on!) and doesn't have an original idea in her head. The only reason some Republicans want her at the top of their party is that she is so manipulable due to her vast ignorance.
If the Republicans want to gain any ground, they had better find a leader that is informed and has and original, conservatively-oriented agenda–and someone who knows the "straight-talk express" better than McCain. American voters won't be as easy to manipulate, and Dems have learned the art of shooting down phony accusations. Wake up, Republicans. I would welcome your resurgence, but you have to earn it.
Palin is now trying to drum up drama on herself with old material.
Enough. PLEASE shut up, Sarah.
Wow! You "Obama Kool-Aid drinkers" sure are a mean lot. When are you people going to stop hating Sarah Palin (and her kids)? Your guy won the election you are STILL so full of hate and rage for this woman, your postings are almost sizzling and smoking. I wonder how angry you all would be if Obama had LOST. What a bunch of hateful, miserable human beings. This is going to be a wonderful 4 years. (Keep it up, Sarah. No one gets under the skin of the angry Kool-Aid drinkers like you.)
Dear Sarah,
Please keep taking every opportunity presented to you to talk to the media. Manufacture them when none present themselves to you within a few days.
Signed, the Democratic Party Chair of every stinkin' state of the Union (even the ones you can't see from your back yard).
And, what was with all of the questioning of Palin about foreign policy experience? Did they ask those questions, in the same manner, of Bill Clinton? Hmmm, what foreign policy experience did the governor of one of the smallest and poorest states have before taking on the mantle of President (much less Vice President as would have been in the case of Palin)?
The reporting was very unfair and sexist about Palin. Whether you hated her and still thought she was a bad choice, dumb, or the like, please stop and ask whether a man or a Democrat would have been asked the same questions in the same manner.
Well, my extreme distaste for Palin arises from her abominable record on animal welfare and environmental issues, her unblinking ability to keep on spouting the same lies over and over again after they have been publicly shown to be lies, her selling of her children as publicity props while at the same time crying "foul" when her parenting skills are questioned, her absolute disdain for science and other actual knowledge, especially if it in any way contradicts her extremely narrow and skewed world view, etc. I could go on for pages.
So no, my distate for Palin has nothing to do with SNL and everything to do with Palin herself.
Mike and Sarah- let the guy that won get sworn in before you start running.
The one thing I will say is Mike was being kind- sarh- you're an idiot!
Palin will wind up replacing Huckabee on Fox "News" in the future.
It will be funny when she replaces him on his own show and they change the title to "Barracuda Bits", then gets cancelled two weeks after everyone grows tired of her and she keeps getting older.
"I find it extremely annoying when people dog on Palin when its blatantly obvious that their only knowledge of her is whatever was referenced on SNL."
Considering Tina Fey's lines were taken verbatim from Palin's pathetic interview answers to Katie Couric, I find this not to be a criticism of the American public.
I agree with Huckabee here, Palin was not mistreated by the media, especially Couric, who was gentle, helpful. Palin just didn't know the answers, she is a lightweight and not appropriate for national office. She should stop the whining, it only draws attention to her lack of understanding and introspection.
End of story.
Huckaster is obsessed with Mitt Romney. Did he hate Romney for his religion or for his money? Either way, one is forced to wonder whether Huckabee’s idea of 2012 means a run at the White House or, alternatively, a run at Maury Povich’s job?
Finally... one of the GOP admits that the Emperor's new clothes are NO clothes at all!!
He's right... they are BOTH nut jobs. Most of the GOP are nut jobs.
At least they're finally admitting it out loud now. Denial has been such an ugly thing...
why is palin still around? don't get me wrong I HATE NO ONE But this lady is clearly not qualified to be president. As a man I would hope that women would not let her represent the first woman president I mean the lady doesn't even know that Africa is a continent!!!! And all of these people hating on everything Obama does before even listening to him, only because he's BLACK get a grip. Black, White, Blue, Gray whatever this man has serious vision more of any leader that I've seen so far atleast give him a chance I mean you gave Bush one. Should he not deserve the same. People with all this hate in the heart need to find God quick before its to late and get some LOVE. Stop spreading discord among you brothers. Its demonic for real!!!!!
It will be fun to watch the same ole republicans run in 2012 – Huckabee, Romney, maybe Sarah Palin, and "Bobby" Jindal. I don't think America is going to vote for any of these folks after seeing the progress Obama makes after 2009. Bush dug a hole – Obama will lift us slowly out of it, and then get some great things done (Universal health care, work on Global Warming, mid-east peace, education).
Obama 2012!
please!! im still throwing up about the last OVERODOSE of elections and extreme right and left media outlets in this country. dont start the diatribe about next election so early! give it a rest, all politicians, and so called political pundits! try n cover some real new for a while!
what does "Conservative" mean anymore, anyway? The term meant non-interference in foreign affiairs, small federal government, and non-interference in private lives. Now it seems you can be obsessed with "spreading democracy", spending taxpayer money like there's no tomorrow, and making American's moral decisions for them. As long as you're against gay marriage and abortion, then you're still considered a "Conservative".
Anyhow, Huck sure has the politico-speak down, he found one Heckuva roundabout way to say, "Sarah Palin is the biggest idiot I've ever witnessed in my life."
Huckabee the NEXT John McCain, nothing to stand on except don't vote for the other guy.
Palin has killed our party! Only idiots can take her seriously.
Huckleberry can be too doggone honest but at least he is funny to listen to. Whether that translates to a viable candidate remains to be seen. Painlin, on the other hand, is simply too incredible to be true. Some people are humble on their good fortune while others ride their luck to death. Why is it OK to bring up the race card (black and Muslim name) but not OK to bring up the sex card? If she really wants to be the next prez, get over it already!!!
Thank you for finally criticizing Palin.
If she gets the nomination in 2012, and you don't...I see a landslide.
Still. It will be an Obama Win in 2012.
Isn't Chuckleberry Hound-Dog the guy who believes the earth is only 6,000 years old?
Sue B there was a 2nd supreme court decision that Palin should have been familar with since she is on record disagreeing with it in 2008, but she couldn't remember disagreeing with it, hmmmm. Doesn't sound good does it? I do not like the way that Palin came out at the convention and started her hate attacking everyone that didn't agree with her. And I was totally appalled by those buttons the republicans were wearing at the convention, and they had the nerve to cry sexism when they were wearing those buttons. what a joke that whole campaign was.
Did any of you actually watch the interview? Really?
Khelley illustrates Palin's point about the sleaze the MSM threw at her on page one and mopped up on page 32, if at all.
I honestly believe Palin is not an idiot. I believe hers was a textbook example of a botched rollout to a hostile press. But since she didn't control her rollout she doesn't deserve the blame. If she had been running for president herself then she would deserve all she got. But that's not the case.
And since Palin is giving an interview to a man making a documentary about media coverage of her, it is appropriate (not whining) for her to discuss her representation in the media, both in news and entertainment. I saw the interview and thought in her tone was more sadness that this is what the world had come to, the celebrity-paparazzi-tabloid headline news machine that really deserves to be condemned, rather than any kind of "please love me."
Make an effort to turn off your Palin blinders. Walk the hope and new politics you talked in the election. Peace.
Thank you for telling the truth Mike Huckabee
But as far as competence goes, Mr Huckabee, didn't you argue we should lift the embargo on Cuba only to admit you didn't know why we had an embargo in the first place?
I like Mike Huckabee but I don't agree with him. Sarah Palin wasn't allowed to give many interviews. They wanted to her cram everything in her head. Her answers didn't seem natural and maybe not very smart. But the media was unfair to her. Reguardless of what anyone says.
Huckabee is one of only tw0 or three Republicans I respect. I agree with what he said
I always thought that the way the media pigeon-holed Huckabee as being solely an evangelical candidate with solely evangelical appeal was unfortunate. In the early days CNN didn't seem to know what they wanted and FOX were clearly backing Romney. Don't get me wrong, I support Obama but I do think that Huckabee could have given him a much closer run. The guy has the Obama-like quality of appearing honest and truthful. As regards his comments on this issue I think he is spot on. Could be an interesting 2012 if he gets the nomination.
Palin is not up to the job of president, in my opinion. She is a light-weight. She is quick with a country witticism but, as it has been said so many times before, there simply is no "there" there.
I'm sorry for her and those that believe that she would make a great president. The Oval Office needs to be occupied by the best America's has, not a one-dimensional meat bag with the world view of a termite. We already have that T-shirt and it no longer fits, thank you very much!
Mike, I really like your conservative platform, but please back off with comments about Sara and Romney. Posturing yourself for 2012 is okay, but please take the high road. Sniping at Sara and Mit doesn't accomplish anything, except strengthen your ego. Please concentrate on your image and message, not under cutting your potential competition.
Instead of Governor Palin telling the people of Alaska and the USA what she learned from her campaign experience, what policies she would like to institute as a result, & what things she is focusing on to be better prepared as a leader , she trashes the media for letting her tell the truth about herself. And lies, narcisssism, and the truth ain't pretty. In adition, if she wanted to keep her family 'off limit's she wouldn't have paraded them on stage, wouldn't have given interviews in People Magazine about them, wouldn't have let the likes of Greta into her home with cameras, wouldn't have billed the state of Alaska for (past) family travel, or let her husband get involved in state business (Troopergate). Give Mr. Hucklebee credit for being polite to a whimpering pit bull with lipstick.
Palin should devote her time to setting up a family planning clinic or perhaps a drop out prevention program ... at least two teenagers come to mind who could have used those services.
Sarah Palin has no one to blame but herself for her crash landing after a false meteoric rise. With her "sentences to nowhere" she became the laughing stock of America and a living joke. She is an intellectual lightweight who will N E V E R be ready for prime time.
After six years as an undergraduate it is not a big deal she can read a teleprompter. People mistook her reading skills as intelligence and wit. Unfortunately, she could only wow a crowd when she parroted the words of others. When left to think and speak for herself she crashed and burned.
There is an old say, "It is better to be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." There is NO WAY Palin can be a serious contender for the presidency in 2012...well, unless all Americans of voting age are lobotomized!!!
I am SHOCKED to completely agree with Mike Hickabee.
Sorry, I meant Huckabee.
Sarah Palin is now apparently campaigning to become the most pathetic political figure this side of George W. – so gee. Good luck in 2012
Yeah I know- I'm just a MEAN tree-hugging liberal who probably resents Sarah Palin for her family values!
OBAMA baby!
Katie Couric and Charlie Gibson did give fair interviews. Sarah Palin was not prepared. Palin went into this campaign as a possible VP and did not have the background necessary to carry her campaign with knowledge and experience. I agree with Mike Huckabee; however, why is this a subject for discussion? I believe we have very serious issues that need consideration. The Republicans should think about rebuilding their party.
Look Palin,Bush their idiots who dont get it.The only thing un-american is them.The truth hurts like their leadership.And Palin calling a US senator a terrorist.IF Palin is the best the RNC have,LOTS OF LUCK.
Mike Hucklebee does not believe in evolution.