Posted by
Allen Caeden on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 11:10:39 PM
Well today I came across shot being fired at Sarah Palin but from an unexpected source, it was Mike Huckabee whom I supported in the primaries. On CNN Huckabee stated that he thought both Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric were fair to Sarah Palin. This is in response to John Ziegler’s interview with her for his documentary, “How Obama Got Elected”. Ziegler released a 10 minute snippet of a 50 minute interview that he had with Sarah Palin on his website. Now Huckabee if he had watched the clip would know that Sarah Palin did not even mention Charlie Gibson and her problem with Katie Couric was that her questions were stupid. I mean wondering what Alaskans read, come on.
What Sarah Palin was most upset with was the media assault on her family. The media made a huge story out of her daughter Bristol’s pregnancy and after that they found the need to question whether or not Sarah Palin was really the mother of her son Trigg or whether she was covering for an earlier Bristol pregnancy. Mike Huckabee has yet to endure such a media smear campaign because the media never saw him as a viable candidate and even though I supported him because I voted my conscience and I knew that he could not beat Romney or McCain in the end. I was shown to be right when even the south did not vote for him.
However, it seems that Huckabee is eying the 2012 primary and is joining the media is slamming Sarah Palin who obviously stands in his way of winning the Republican nomination. I guess it makes me sick when a Republican joins the leftwing media who broke every rule in journalism so that Obama would get elected, in slamming the one person that the Republican base looks to as their future which is Sarah Palin. Does Huckabee honestly think that the media will give him a fair shake if he were to win the nomination in 2012? I think Huckabee is treading on dangerous ground in attacking Sarah Palin and siding with the liberal media for two reasons.
First, the base of the GOP still is wildly in love with Sarah Palin and trashing her is no way to win their loyalty. Second, the base hates the liberal media and siding with the left against Sarah Palin is also not going to endear him to the Republican base. I still maintain that while I still like Huckabee I believe that he is not a viable candidate for 2012. If Mike Huckabee could not win in 2008 when the GOP base was completely unenthusiastic about McCain and Romney and the others; then how can he win against someone like Sarah Palin who hypes up the GOP in a way that has not been done since President Reagan? Huckabee may try but in the end I think he is playing with fire.