Huckabee On Palin: "Only Difference Was She Looks Better In Stilettos Than I Do"

The New Yorker's Lauren Collins sat down with Mike Huckabee to talk about his new book, "Do the Right Thing: Inside the Movement That's Bringing Common Sense Back to America," in which the presidential hopeful settled some scores with his GOP rivals. In the interview, Huckabee still has some grievances -- including one about Sarah Palin:

While some of Huckabee's gripes come off as rinky-dink--in the book, he admonishes Romney for hogging golf-cart parking spaces during the Iowa straw poll--others are more stinging. Asked about Sarah Palin, he responded, "She, uh, was an appropriate choice, because she put John McCain back in the game." That was the get-along answer, but a few minutes later the new, aggrieved Huckabee resurfaced. He recalled, "It was funny that all through the primary--I mean literally up until McCain got enough delegates to win--people said, 'You know, Huckabee's really running for Vice-President. Gee, Huckabee would be a great Vice-President.' And from that day forward, when I actually was no longer running for President, nobody ever said, 'Gee, Huckabee would be a great Vice-President.' " Neither was he quite so unperturbed by the Palin pick: "I was scratching my head, saying, 'Hey, wait a minute. She's wonderful, but the only difference was she looks better in stilettos than I do, and she has better hair.' It wasn't so much a gender issue, but it was like they suddenly decided that everything they disliked about me was O.K. . . . She was given a pass by some of the very people who said I wasn't prepared."

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Comments

[digdeeper]

Oh give yourself a break man. Don't forget you have a brain, she just has cunning.

[justobserve]

Huckabee is too charitable toward Palin: she was the runner up for Ms Congeniality so she is of course looks better than him if the race is for BEAUTY. But for a presidential race, she lacks the most important and basic qualification of all: KNOWLEDGE. McCain though she had "executive experience" but McCain doesn't have such ex[erience so he doesn't know what it is! And he didn't know such experience in Alaska is different from everywhere else: it's CHILDPLAY. She only needed 116 thousand votes to win the governorship for having such "experience" from a mayorship she won with 6 hundred votes! She even can do the work by staying home with her children and charged the state per diem for it. Where else can you get paid for being a Stay-At-Home Governor? Giuliani knows the difference between being a Mayor of NYC of 8 millions and Wasilla of 5 thousands people. Huckabee knows the difference between a real Governor of Askansas and Alaska too. Tell voters the truth please. Or are they too sexists and judge a woman by a different standard?

[JiminNC]

Huckabilly and the Palinator will make an intersting sideshow in 2012.

[Nomccain]

Don't be fooled. Huckabee is on the air for one thing and one thing only......­...to promote the ultra right wing agenda and very soon to criticize the democrats. What would Jesus do Huck?

[indypete]

Huck, for all that he's a repub, has a good sense of humor.

[fflores]

he is right... they are both i.diots

[Whinger]

Jeez Huck, I thought you would know better, stilettos give you bad posture and back problems!

[Cyano]

So glad they've jettisoned Reagan's saying:
Never criticize a fellow republican.

It's been wonderfully entertaining since Nov. 4 and can only get more nasty.

[iswideopen]

Sarah Palin is nothing more than a bigoted, hateful, cruel, uneducated joke. That is her first and last impression on Americans and the world that was watching this election. She will never be acceptable as a representative of these United States Of America. If the GOP thinks otherwise, once again, they underestimate the intelligence of the voters. As for the latest Gallup Poll, the only people surveyed were republicans or those "leaning" republican. Good luck with the right wing nuts, republicans.

[NeverADullMoment]

As many saw during the campaign, and as we've seen for more than 8 years, the lack of intelligence of the voters should not be underestimated.

Thankfully, this time around, hate, bigotry, and uneducated values were defeated by a more responsible and forward-looking message.

"It's the stupidity, stupid."

[justobserve]

Amen!

[Roxanna]

You are right never a dull moment !

They always it is the economy but it really is the "stupidity!"

[VeroucaSalt]

Huckabee, by equating yourself to Palin, you are not doing yourself any favors. I used to like you and just disagree with your politics. Now I don't think I like you anymore - especially if you're anything like Palin.

[theotherfringe]

H. is playing the passive aggressive role by being self-deprecating. He would feel so much better if he just let it all out. He is bitter. It is eating him up inside that S.P. was chosen over him. Maybe he should go into therapy.

[munki]

She is too much...jus­t STOP talking about her...

[hildutus]

It's always great to hear Christian ministers talk. The self-righteousness oozes so smoothly through the envy and hatred.

[Cyano]

The right wing TV and radio show hosts (who almost all claim to be "religious") are equally able to stab the knife in between pious comments.

[SENATORCALLENBOWE]

WHOS 2 SAY?

[palinferpresident]

www.palinferpresident.com

[zippywpinhead]

lol...