“It was a bad decision obviously, but my heart goes out to Huckabee,” the former Alaska governor said of her potential 2012 GOP presidential rival during an interview Monday with conservative radio host Lars Larson. “I love him, and I feel bad for him to be in this position. But I feel even worse for the victims’ families in this situation.”
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“It’s absolutely tragic and just unfathomable what has happened there, and I do feel bad for Huckabee,” Palin said. “But it was a horrible decision that he made.”
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“most Alaskans know me well enough to know that I don’t have a whole lot of mercy for the bad guys.”
“I’m on the good guys’s side,” she said. “I’m all about redemption and recovery and reform and all that. But I will always error on the side of punishing even stricter, even harder on the bad guys.”
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December 8th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Or I guess rather than make tough decisions and deal with tough critics and or situations, he should have just quit. That is the answer?
December 8th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com … -huck.html
Quote:
After Mike Huckabee’s bad news week his poll numbers must be completely shattered, right?
Not so much. Our monthly look at the 2012 Presidential race, due out Thursday, will show Huckabee’s favorability at 35/35, pretty much unchanged from 36/37 on our November poll. And not only does it show him once again as the Republican who comes closest to Barack Obama, but it also shows him coming closer to Obama than he has in any of the previous nine monthly polls.
December 8th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Shouldn’t Sarah have replaced “error” with “err”?
December 8th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
#2 It’s not about his cult members that already follow him and won’t stop following him. It’s about the vast amount of undecidedes that will now never vote for him now. He has probably hit his ceiling. That’s Hucks real problem.
December 8th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
3 – she is a superwoman, but I doubt she wrote the article for the gentleman.
December 8th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
#4, If I recall, that same argument was about how vast numbers of Republicans would not vot for Huckabee. Are you willing to put your money were your mouth is ?
December 8th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
It is too bad that Mr. Romney did not realize that TARP would be a slush fund back when he promoted it.
December 8th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
#6. Sure, I would be willing to say that Mike’s bad decisions will come back to haunt him with independents. If you think it will help him – feel free to explain.
December 8th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
7 – Quote to back that up?
December 8th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
8#, I bet you that Huckabee will be leading with Independents, the same people you say will abandon him in droves.
Don’t believe me ? How else is he able to not only stay in the top, but narrowed the gap between him and Obama ?
December 8th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
“7 – Quote to back that up?” Huh?
December 8th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
11 – Do you have a quote to back up the assertion that Mr. Romney promoted TARP funds?
December 8th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
BWett,
Mr. Romney DID promote TARP, at least in its original incarnation. But Bush (later Obama) and the Democratic Congress just love the idea of spending tons of money on a “good cause”. So Bush — and later Obama — went considerably beyond what Mitt had originally proposed.
You’ll have to forgive OHIO. He is of the opinion that if anybody suggests or advocates using a knife in a given situation, they are at fault if someone does something bad with that knife.
December 8th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Thanks for clearing that up, marK. So if I understand correctly, because Mitt supported a health care plan while he was governor in MA, and the overwhelmingly Dem legislature added a bunch of dung to it, and then the MA Supreme Court forces the law to include abortion coverage, it’s Mitt’s fault? Is that about it?
December 8th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
#14,
Basically.
December 8th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
I wonder why Sarah was so harsh? Even Mitt was nicer to Huckabee than this…
December 8th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
I cut Mr. Romney some slack on the $50 abortion business because Mr. Romney did not directly support that. He did directly promote TARP. He did not promote TARP on steroids like Mr. Obama, but he helped to open the can of worms.
December 8th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
Palin also supported TARP, but in her defense she didn’t seem to know what she was talking about. Not to slam her, but in that instance it was true.
December 8th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
100 billion has been paid back. A couple more hundred billion has not been used. Take away the 200 billion that was misused, and we have a much smaller version similar to what Mitt advocated to save our country from a complete financial meltdown. As I have said many times, nobody that knows anything was arguing that something was not needed drastically. It’s just a dirty rotten shame that it came out so big and was so misused.
December 8th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
That’s true, Getreal. She does have an excellent excuse. She apparently had no idea what the whole thing was about. Even if she would have, she wouldn’t have had the intricate knowledge required to know if it was neessary or not, just like nearly everyone on this site that loves to put their two cents in on the subject. They can never point to even one person that had the vast amount of knowledge necessary to have an opinion who opposed it.
December 8th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
Oops, Huck got his two points back today.
December 8th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
CR/IG – I’m sorry I didn’t know it was you. Boy am I dense! I’m so glad you are still here.
December 8th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
CR, Huck is toast. I know his folks want to hang on to some hope. I feel sorry for them, actually.
Even so, I find it hard to understand how they can so easily overlook this problem, and defend him. The clemencies have always bothered me, and were always a major deal-breaker for me. It’s just flat out 100% unacceptable.
December 8th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
NP Martha, I am amazed no body figured it out. I didn’t think I would last 2 days.
December 8th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
Wow! Team Huckabee stronger than ever! This is the true POWER of the American people. Stupid pundits please know that you are becoming more and more stupid these days.
December 8th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
14,
That’s exactly what happened to McCain in the McCain-Feingold bill, but conservative activists don’t seem to have gotten the details there, either. So I don’t think Romney’s going to get off all that easy.
December 8th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
#23..Martha……Huck is not yet toast as the people who supported him through thick and thin in 2008 are still supporting him now. I’m not sure there is much that would change their mind unless Huck did something really evil like become a Catholic or Mormon.
Huck will either have to eventually say he’s not running or get beat in the primaries to remove him from the equation.
He might not gain much new support, but he probably won’t lose much of what he has either.
Folks that could swallow all of Huck’s past shenanigans and record, his “Christian Leader” campaign strategy, his snarky and moody behavior and grudges, and economic and foreign policy expertise are not going to be phased by much. I’m not even sure they would abandon him if he pulled a Sanford….there would probably be some tears and begging for forgiveness and he’d be back in the running.
Nope, better get used to having Huckabee around unless he decides that FOX is more fun than flying economy class and getting foreign policy experience sleeping in Motel 6 during a campaign.
December 8th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
#26….I get the feeling the conservative activites are not interested in or intentionally avoid the details….
December 8th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
28…”conservative activists”
December 8th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
#23 & #27
Huckabee is trying to weasel out of his part in releasing Clemmons… There is too much out there that will end up on you tube for huck to ever get through a campaign…
Today on FOX (Shepard Smith I think) he said that if Clemmons had been a 16 year old white boy and committed a crime, then they would have just released him to his parents after paying a fine….and FOX agrees with him….unbelievable that he is playing the race card.
He said this just as the funeral procession for the Police Officers were beginning in Tacoma, WA.
December 9th, 2009 at 1:10 am
Actually, Palin made a disastrous mistake in back-stabbing Huckabee, who has repeatedly defended her from “unfair media.” Huck has a lot of die-hard supporters who will treat any negative remarks about their man as a grievance they will not forget. Besides, governors who say that they “never” pardon or commute only make themselves look like cowards. It’s part of the job description to consider cases for clemency, and if you summarily dismiss them all, you are ducking responsibility, something that is already a weak point for Palin since she quit. Besides, 100 years for nonviolent crimes does seem a little ridiculous. No one can predict the future.
December 9th, 2009 at 1:19 am
Oh dear Palin is after the badies.
We can all sleep soundly at night now
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December 9th, 2009 at 1:49 am
Ben,
You blast Romney because he refused to do something that could turn out badly. OHIO blasts Romney because he did do something that could turn out badly.
Could you two kindly get your stories straight?
December 9th, 2009 at 2:18 am
#33…..I’ll praise Romney for most of what it does that turns out great
December 9th, 2009 at 4:29 am
#31, needless to say, we Huck supporters will have long memories about this incident come time for the primary.
December 9th, 2009 at 5:14 am
“Could you two kindly get your stories straight?” Haha, Ben is not in my camp so I cannot control him. If we you can keep your camp on the reservation as well as our camp, you might be on to something.
December 9th, 2009 at 8:52 am
http://www.salemnews.com/puopinion/local_story_341000500.html?keyword=secondarystory#
here is one of many reasons why I will never, ever support Huckabee. He and his supporters has done more harm to America than any recent Republicans in memory.
December 9th, 2009 at 9:12 am
“Letter: Were in not for Huckabee, Mitt would be president” Hey anything is possible, but this is one of the more funny stories I have heard.
December 9th, 2009 at 9:17 am
The other linked it, so I thought it was fair game. But it is what many Republicans think.
December 9th, 2009 at 10:04 am
Yes Thunder, I am aware that a significant number of people believe that Mr. Romney would be President if it were not for Mr. Huckabee in the race. Nevertheless, I find the theory funny. First off, there were more than 3 people in the race. If Mr. Huckabee were not in the race, there were plenty of non-Romney choices to chose from even if all Huckabeeites hated Mr. McCain. I see no reason to believe that an average Huckabeeite would all of a sudden feel that Mr. Romney would be electable if there were no Huckabee in the race. Put more importantly, looking back, I for one think it would be difficult for any GOP candidate to have won last year. Frankly, I almost think Mr. Romney would have not recieved more than 162 electoral point instead of 173; I certainly do not see how Mr. Romney would obtain the 270, even 247 would be difficult, 227 point would be doing well.
December 9th, 2009 at 10:19 am
Reply to 40: It sort of interesting that Huckabee and his sort actually did themselves more harm than good from 2008. Had Huckabee ran a clean race and lost, and had Romney taken out McCain, then if Romney had lost or won, Huckabee would be seen as the next in line. Instead, he is now hatted by a significant number of republicans that make him unelectable (especially out west).
Huckabee running as the Christian leader (and making anti-mormon remark), is what is really killing Huckabee now.
December 9th, 2009 at 10:29 am
How Mr. Huckabee and company campaigned is a different story.
December 10th, 2009 at 11:33 am
New poll out today says Huckabee undamaged, remains front runner: http://mikehuckabeepresident2012.blogspot.com/2009/12/public-policy-polling-huckabee-still.html