Mrs. Huckabee: 2-for-3 with a grenade launcher
Mike Huckabee's wife once did some target practice with a grenade launcher.
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (CNN) - During an afternoon tea party at the elegant governor's mansion in the capital of South Carolina, former Arkansas first lady Janet Huckabee told CNN she is pretty handy with a grenade launcher.
Huckabee, the wife of Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, said in an interview that she once shot a grenade launcher at a National Guard training camp in Arkansas.
"I have fired a grenade launcher and hit the target two out of three times, so I think that's pretty good odds for me," she said, noting that she had a special interest in military matters and has also jumped out of an airplane, flown in an F-16 and shot an MP5 submachine gun.
"I just was at the National Guard training camp at Camp Robinson and they just said we just want to, you know, introduce you to some of the equipment and some of the military guns that they have. And so one of them happened to be a grenade launcher, and so I shot it, and they said, 'You're good.' And I said, 'Thank you.'"
The tea party was just one stop on a South Carolina "First Ladies Bus Tour" for Mike Huckabee. Along with Janet Huckabee, the bus tour included two former South Carolina first ladies who are supporting Huckabee, Iris Campbell and Mary Wood Beasley, as well as former Arkansas first lady Gay White.
- CNN South Carolina Producer Peter Hamby
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Maybe she can be enlisted to take out Osama bid
Laden. No one else has been able to. Or maybe
Cheney. He's pretty good with a rifle.
Grenade-launching wife... Chuck Norris heading up fundraising... I only wish Mike Huckabee could convince Ah-nold to get on board.
Vee vill crush you girly-men, roundhouse kick your face, and grenade-launch until you vote for Huck!
After Sunday morning services, of course.
Sounds like my mom. Good lady with her feet on the ground. Good sense of humor. Good natured. Honest.
Send her to Iraq!
Huckabee is rising in the polls and his wife can launch grenades....does it get any better in life!
GO HUCKABEE!
Sounds like a perfect first lady..
Wow, that's a little tougher than Mitt Romney, the big bad hunter who "hunted pretty much his entire life" (as Mitt related in order to pander to the republican whacko gun nuts, the NRA etc).
Turns out Mitt helped hunt a few squirrel and varmints one day when he was a teenager of 15 or 16, and then someone else invited him last year so that was "pretty much" his whole life.
It's funny to watch these republicans being real tough with guns, but none of them are as "tuff" as Rudy Guiliani, who single-handedly withstood the 9-11 attacks merely by appearing in front of every available camera in the days after the WTC collapsed.
Will she take this hobby to the White House Lawn if she does become first lady? That would get some press.
And remind me again... why is this news?
And?
LOL
We'll need a first lady who can launch grenades if we elect another Republican president!
Now [b]That[/b] is the kind of WOMAN we need in the White house!!!
She will mercilessly thwart any would be assassins!
If mrs. huckabee is so darn good with a grenade launcher we should send her into the Iraq war.
Steven, Bloomsbury NJ
Excuse me CNN. Which part of this article is intended to be news? And is it suppose to enlighten of something? Could you do us a favor and clarify?
My wife is good at throwing things at me when she gets mad. Does this qualify me as President???
WatchingHillary.com
so what? Who really cares. How is this remotely news?
Dear CNN,
This is not news.
Thanks,
Me.
This is the man I vote for. He's likes the Fair Tax. HR 2525
This is news?
It seems being trained in military warfare is very important to Republicans and their spouses!
I'm a bit mystified as to why they would feel they need this training.
And the pertinence to this story is what?
"Janet Huckabee told CNN she is pretty handy with a grenade launcher."
THIS IS NOT NEWS!
Seems like an interesting woman. However, America needs a President who understands 21st century science–not 1st century pseudo- science (creationism superstition).
Sweet, she should volunteer for Iraq and protect our freedoms from the evil doers.