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From “Meet the Press” February 10th, 2008

MR. RUSSERT: All right. Before you go, I have to ask you about this comment on…

GOV. HUCKABEE: All right.

MR. RUSSERT: “Morning Joe”’s program back in January.

GOV. HUCKABEE: OK.

MR. RUSSERT: “When I was in college, we used to take a popcorn popper–because that was the only thing” many of us–”they would let us use in the dorms”…

GOV. HUCKABEE: Yeah.

MR. RUSSERT: …”and we would fry squirrel in the popcorn poppers in the dorm room.”

GOV. HUCKABEE: Yeah. Yeah. We really did that. We really did.

MR. RUSSERT: Did you eat them?

GOV. HUCKABEE: Well, of course you–we ate them.

MR. RUSSERT: What does it taste like?

GOV. HUCKABEE: I should say it tastes a lot like chicken, but it doesn’t.

MR. RUSSERT: What’s it taste like?

GOV. HUCKABEE: It, it tastes like squirrel. It’s not the best thing in the world but, you know, when you go squirrel hunting, you got to do something with those things. And part of it was just to say we could do it. I mean, it was a college thing. I mean, but fried squirrel is a Southern delicacy. You got to know that.

MR. RUSSERT: But you’re off the squirrel now?

GOV. HUCKABEE: I haven’t eaten fried squirrel I think since college. Thank the Lord. I don’t…

MR. RUSSERT: This may help you in Virginia.

GOV. HUCKABEE: It may kill me up–in other states, however.

I can’t believe some seriously consider Huckabee a competitive candidate. I used to think he was O.K. Politicians say a lot of crap when they’re running for office. Like everyone else with no brain and a little experience I know to take election year oaths with a grain of salt. And Huckabee really seems like a nice person. But you mean to tell me that people still pretend to not know that TV preachers steal from old ladies?

MR. RUSSERT: But shouldn’t he cooperate and turn over the materials that Senator Grassley requested?

GOV. HUCKABEE: As far as I know, he will fulfill his responsibilities. He’s taking legal counsel. But you know what? The whole issue with Kenneth Copeland/Chuck Grassley is not an issue that I’m dealing with as a presidential candidate. It’s not a part of whether or not I ought to be running for president. And what I’m saying is that I think he’s taking his legal counsel, finding out what he’s supposed to do and where he’s supposed to cooperate, but not in, in any way yielding over the constitutional rights he has under the First Amendment to be not just a person of free speech, but also a person of freedom of religion.

MR. RUSSERT: But if you tell him “I stand with you against Congress,” and then he raises money for you…

GOV. HUCKABEE: Behind him.

MR. RUSSERT: …isn’t that interfering in an investigation?

GOV. HUCKABEE: No, it’s not interfering with an investigation. I–it’d be interfering if I called up Chuck Grassley and said lay off Kenneth Copeland. I’ve not done that, nor would, would I do that. Because I think Kenneth Copeland will ultimately have to provide some responsible answer to the questions that have been raised. And, and that’s fine. And Senator Grassley, he can request whatever information he needs. He’ll have the legal authority to do what he does, or he won’t be able to get it done. That’s all in the world that, that has to happen.

MR. RUSSERT: But he should provide all the information that’s been requested?

GOV. HUCKABEE: If the information is reasonable and it’s not violating the, the rights that Kenneth Copeland has. I, I do have a little concern. It’s a little chilling when you start thinking about is Congress going to start going after nonprofit organizations? And if so, are they going to do all nonprofits? Are they going to start looking at Moveon.org? Are they going to start looking at some of these organizations, where every dime comes from? If, if we’re going to do it, let’s open it up and make sure everybody coughs up the information.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23095171/page/2/

That doesn’t excuse him from not releasing infomation does it? It does informs us as to Huck Dawg’s biases. By including Moveon.com in the same conversation he intimates Copeland as a PAC, not a private citizen. A partisan organization who lobby for their agenda, not always scrupulously. Between that and the millions the guy has earned from graft that can only make his associations more suspicious.

Old Huck Finn’s reasoning is the same as a kid caught chewing gum in class. Which makes him either very naive or a bad liar. By basically saying he’d obstruct an investigation means the latter unfortunately. Neither makes him an attractive candidate. Apparently evangelical types share poor lying abilities. Bush is always blurting out his uninformed opinions, mixed with lies to fill the gap, without an inkling of the implications. Unlike Bush Huckabee is rarely nasty. (Bush usually defends his positions by working a nasty tone into his statements. They are supposed to make us back down from questioning his logic. Ha!)

I could handle the whole B.S defense of marriage act, creationism over evolution, abortion abolition talking points. Every politician talks junk in order to appeal to their base. He’s stated some of the more agreeable moderate positions. He also wouldn’t be able to get half of that sort of extremism past in Congress anyway. But adding clumsy lying into the mix indicates he’s not White House-worthy. We want our politicians to successfully lie. If he hadn’t mentioned eating squirrel far past the years when he had to, the rest of his nonsense wouldn’t look that bad. It also proves he’s a terrible liar.

Huckabees’ comments about McCain in 2006

“I have a hard time seeing him being elected president, just because I think, at times, some of his views have alienated very important segments of the Republican Party.”

Let’s hope it was the squirrel eating branch of the party.

Squirrel eating alone should not bar someone from the White House. Lord knows we all have a past. Bad lying, backward azz thinking and popcorn squirrel should.

Log this one under carny life.