Huckabee: I don’t want to be vice president

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Source: MSNBC

WASHINGTON - How does being vice president sound? Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee on Sunday called it the office that no one would refuse but also one that he doesn't want or expect.

"No I really don't," the former Arkansas governor said when asked if he wanted to be vice president — assuming that Republican front-runner Sen. John McCain won the November election.

"I'm not going to be asked. It's pretty evident that there would be a whole lot of people on the list long before me and one of them would say yes," he added.

In fact, he told NBC's Tim Russert on "Meet the Press" — cracking a smile as he did — the question he should be asked is, "Would I ask John McCain to be my running mate?"

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23096182/

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Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee speaks to "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert Sunday in Washington, D.C.

NOTE: The "the question he should be asked is, "Would I ask John McCain to be my running mate?" remark is virtually identical to the response from John Edwards in the 2004 primaries when he was asked if he'd consider being John Kerry's veep. If it's offered to Huckabee, he WILL take it. Mark my words.

:patriot:

[CreekDog]

1. Finally something with which I agree with Huckabee n/t

[TwilightGardener]

2. Why does the media keep giving this psychotic assclown more air time than anyone else?

[bunkerbuster1]

3. Dunno. Maybe it really IS a ... gasp... LIBRUHL MEDEEYUH!

and they're humiliating Republicans by exposing this rough-around-the-edges genuine squirrel-eatin' hillbilly as often as possible?

Or maybe it's because he's the only thing that stands in the way of McCain's nomination. you got me.

[Fridays Child]

8. If exposing rough-around-the-edges, squirrel-eatin' hillbillies was a successful liberal tactic...

...George Bush would never have made it to the White House.

[bunkerbuster1]

10. To get slightly serious for a moment...

George Bush was a spoiled prep-school brat who never worked a goddamned day in his life.

Say what you will about the Huckster--like that he's a fundie nutter, thinks his ancestors had dinosaurs for pets, thinks the Fair Tax is swell, yadda yadda--he's at least as genuine a redneck as Big Dog, not a faux-cowboy.

Bush made it to the White House because he could be molded and told what to do. I suspect Huckabee frightens a lot of corporate America.

[AlertLurker]

13. Please do not lump all us "squirrel-eating hillbillies" in with *.

Many of us did not attend Yale, live in Connecticut, or yacht off Long Island in summer.

I make a way better Brunswick Stew (mostly because I use squirrel AND rabbit) than either the Shrub or the Huckster...I'm sure neither asshat has ever even tasted it.

[PermanentRevolution]

25. Mmmm....

You're makin' me miss the South - haven't had a good Brunswick Stew in ages!

[Art_from_Ark]

26. Actually, Huck's a flatlander

He's from Hope, in the state's southwestern plains.

On the other hand, Arkansas' greatest statesman, J. William Fulbright, was from the hilly part of the state.

[Oak2004]

23. Some of my happiest moments were up in the hills hunting squirrel

and I have an infected toenail which, if trimmed and sent to Washington, would do a better job of governance than Huckabee.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

4. I think you answered your own question...

...he is absolutely a psychotic assclown, and that attracts viewers / readers.

He's the Britney Spears of the 2008 Primaries.

:patriot:

[Demeter]

9. He Has More Charm and Personality Than the Rest of the GOP Altogether

The fact that he's a looney is what makes him fit in at all.

[TwilightGardener]

11. Oh well, I keep missing the charm. "Majored in Miracles"--oh my God. I'm gonna hurl.

[Demeter]

16. You'll Have to Look More Closely, But Pound for Pound, He's Got It

[Joe Bacon]

5. because he wants to pardon all of Wayne Dumonds pals!

I never thought I'd see somone out-asshole Bush BUT I was wrong!

[sakabatou]

6. Go whine somewhere else.

[rpannier]

7. That makes two of us huck

I don't want you to be veep either.

Nor, do I want you as the prez or holding any other national public office

[RavensChick]

20. Make that three!

After this week, we'll probably get lucky and he'll exit stage left like Mittens and all the others did!

[SpiralHawk]

12. "We don't want you to be VP, or pResident, either." - The good American people

"Get then back to the republicon homelander netherworld. Be gone."

- The good American people

[RuleOfNah]

18. I have been wondering if Huckabee has figured out he can't be President.

He seems to understand he can't be Vice President. That's a good sign but can he complete his thoughts?

[onehandle]

14. Good thing. Because the White House is going to be full of Democrats next year.

Bye, Huck!

[llmart]

15. Well, now....

I don't think he has to worry about that too much because there ain't no way a Repug is going to be President anyway. Dumbya made sure of that with his "stallar" performance.

[tomreedtoon]

17. "I want to be God."

A song from a long-lost Martin Mull album, entitled "I Found It." Which was an old right-wing
Christian advertising campaign, by the way...

I don't wanna be Jesus
I'm allergic to the cross
I don't wanna be Moses
And have to worry 'bout what things cost
I don't wanna be Buddha
Sit all day with my legs crossed...

I want to be God! (Oh, my God!)
That's what I want to be
Make me the Lord, 'cause I'm so bored
With mere mortality,
that's not enough for me...

I want to make it thunder
I want to shake my lightning rod, oooh...
You know I want to be God
God, I want to be God.

[Orsino]

19. It's like he's reading my mind!

I don't want him to be vice-president, either.

[AndyTiedye]

21. A Non-Denial Denial

OF COURSE he wants to be VP under McCain, because McCain is too old to survive more than a year or two as President, so ANYONE McCain picks as VP will be President if McCain wins (which the polls suggest he will).

[ReformedChris]

22. McCain needs to shore up the Fundie South vote: Huckleberry would be wise to take the VP slot..

This is about as close as he can get to the top spot. He could have an impact with the sheeple Republican voters and have a position of strength within the party for "contributing" to the McCain campaign. I hate to say it, but if the Democrats are robbed again he also sets himself up for the succession spot for a man that is going to take over the most important job in the world at the age of 72 (a man who also has a nuclear holocaust-like temper). There is a possibility he could be forced to assume the office if something happens with McCain.

[Art_from_Ark]

27. Huckleberry has apparently forgotten how he became governor

He was the beneficiary of Ken Starr's witch hunt against anything tied to Clinton in Arkansas in the mid-90s. Huck just happened to be in the quite unusual situation (for Arkansas) of being a Republican lieutenant governor under a Democratic governor. This is one reason why Starr went after the then governor, Jim Guy Tucker, with such a vengeance, resorting to relying on the testimony of two known perjurers to oust Tucker and pave the way for Huckleberry to take over as governor.

[olddad56]

24. I don't think he has to worry about it. I think McBush will choose Karl Rove.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

28. That's OK Huckstepper, I understand

After all I don't want you anywhere near the presidency or vice presidency either

[Az_lefty]

29. of course he will take it, he has nothing else to look forward to

I don't trust Huckleberry and more than I trust McQueeg.