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Mike Huckabee On Sarah Palin’s 2012 Chances: ‘A Seasoning Agent, But Not The Main Course’

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With her speaking engagement this weekend Sarah Palin has once again managed to bring the 2012 presidential spotlight on herself without jumping into the race, though polls are now showing her chances are rather compromised. Even if she does not run or win, however, at least Mike Huckabee thinks there’s a significant place for her at the table. On Fox & Friends this morning, the 2008 GOP candidate argued that, given her poll numbers, it may be Palin’s fate to “season the food,” but not be the “main ingredient.”

“You have to be very stubborn [to run],” Huckabee noted when presented with a Fox News poll showing upwards of 70% of Republicans hoping Palin doesn’t run for President. That said, Huckabee allotted her a “a very significant role that she plays as an advocate, someone who energizes the base of the party.” In switching gears, “the moment that she becomes a candidate, she becomes a target within her own party.”

In the chance that she does decide to run, however, Huckabee handicapped the results for the other candidates: she will “probably help” Mitt Romney, as Rick Perry and Rep. Michele Bachmann are currently vying for the same space Palin is after, so the three will be splitting the vote. With that in mind, however, Huckabee did not give her particularly high chances to win the nomination, later adding by way of compliment that “it’s not a bad thing to be able to season the food if you’re not the main ingredient,” suggesting Palin didn’t really have what it takes to be the “main course.”

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  • Darladoon

    do you have to be blonde to sit in the center on this ridiculous program?

  • Darladoon

    do you have to be blonde to sit in the center on this ridiculous program?

  • Darladoon

    watching fox news today is not unlike watching parodies of fox news by the Simpsons
    back in the late 90s……back then we were like “no way!  this is absurd!”  

    nowadays, those parodies have come to life on fox news.  

    get really stoned, turn on fox news, and you’ll see what i mean:

    the bright, clean smiles; the zombie-like stares; the HD veneer; and the most
    mindless talking points ever assembled.  

    it’s horrifying.  

  • Nature Freak

    If Sarah Palin is a seasoning, I would compare her to the taste and smell of asafetida.

  • Anonymous

    It is getting too obvious!!

  • Anonymous

    It is getting too obvious!!

  • Anonymous

    Mike Huckabee On Sarah Palin’s 2012 Chances: ‘A Seasoning Agent, But Not The Main Course’

    So, his sage advice is that it is not her thyme ?

  • Anonymous

    LMAO……..it’s over for Palin. 

  • Anonymous

    You went for the female position and was passed up, huh?

  • Nature Freak

    deleted.

  • Nature Freak

    LOL! That was funny!

  • Anonymous

    She’s the perfect ingredient if your making shit stew.

  • Valkyrie101

    Sarah would be a complete fool to accept anything Huckabee says, much less cooking advice. If Mitt wins the nomination he will not choose a mainstream tea partier as his running mate. Not Bachman or Perry or Sarah. He can’t choose Huntsman (two much fancy underwear), or the pizza dude either. For sure, if the tea party is not represented on that ticket, and especially if Sarah starts getting roughed up (and you can tell that she is being targeted now by republicans who want to diminish her power), then a 3rd party may be the only way for the tea party to have a meaningful voice. And besides, there is no way Mitt beats Obama, so a third party (and guaranteeing an Obama split vote win) would not really matter. Then in 2016 the tea party will be ready to roll.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin — media is OBSESSED with Sarah Palin.

    Ron Paul “can’t git no respect”…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    No, but you have to have at least an ounce of a brain. So, you and (blonde) Mika on Morning Joke probably wouldn’t get the jig at Fox. At the same time, sems like you’d be a shoo’in at MSNBC (as a host, no less!).

    Don’t get me wrong, now, some of my best friends are idiots, too!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    Huck is like Scarborough, thought he could curry favor with the left by chastising the right (especially while pretending to be a conservative).

  • Darladoon

    judging by their poll numbers, the tea party are a fringe minority, and it would be
    wise for any republican to avoid them

  • Nature Freak

    Seriously, everyone should use Asafoetida as a seasoning agent at least once. I ran out months ago and need to get more at an Indian food store (sometimes natural food stores carry it as well).

    http://www.theepicentre.com/Spices/asafetid.html

  • Darladoon

    yeah, that gretchen carlson sure is a visionary thinker:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESGKpMHBSoQ

  • Darladoon

    sounds like you could hallucinate off that stuff

  • Jill 4 America

    Big Eddie Guy ~ Very clever use of words !!!! … You have a way of getting your point across without having to use foul language !!

  • Nature Freak

    If you overdo it, almost. I overdid it the first time I used it, and I felt “altered and unusual” for hours. It did really help me breath (I was getting over a head cold, this is one reason I accidentally overdid it, my sense of smell was poor at the time, and I did not use the recommended dose). I did not fully know about its medicinal qualities then.

    “It is also said to be helpful in cases of asthma and bronchitis.” “It is antimicrobial”
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asafoetida

    This herb is not your mama’s parsley.
    BTW, In ancient Rome, it was one of the most common herbs used. I am thinking about getting seeds and growing some in my yard. It should grow in Florida and the deep South.

  • Tedderman

    Unless it’s a Smores ingredient or a moose meat tenderizer, I doubt she’s ever heard of it.

  • Nature Freak

    If Sarah Palin was serious about being POTUS, I just do not see how the tease game can benefit her in any way. If i was a supporter of hers, I would be livid.

    I would have had at least a little respect for Sarah if she didn’t play head games and actually thrown her hat into the ring by the 4th of July.

  • Tedderman

    His family picture from a few years back showed him and his sons near that weight, they had on striped shirts that looked like circus tents,

  • Nature Freak

    That photograph was in my mind as I wrote my comment.

    Many people have some extra pounds and are still healthy and looking good. The Huckabee family when the photo was taken did not look healthy at all.
    The Huckabee family did lose weight. It isn’t always easy to, so I give the Huckabee’s credit. Mike Huckabee should only do macrobiotic or Vegan cooking shows.

  • Nature Freak

    That photograph was in my mind as I wrote my comment.

    Many people
    have some extra pounds and are still healthy and looking good. The
    Huckabee family when the photo was taken did not look healthy at all.
    The
    Huckabee family did lose weight. It isn’t always easy to, so I give the
    Huckabee’s credit. Mike Huckabee should only do macrobiotic or Vegan
    cooking shows.

  • Anonymous

    Looking at the current GOP crops available to the Republicans voters, it is painfully and embarrasingly obvious that the the current declared candidates are mere starters, a bunch of lousy starters as none excite nor inspire. The Republicans are still waiting for their main course, that is Sarah Palin……..

    btw what is Mike Huckabee ? He does not even make it into the menu, preferring to rot as a cheap unwanted street junkie food.

  • labman57

    In other words, Palin is the political equivalent of MSG — she will enhance the hyperbolic rhetoric of conservative talking points, but an hour later she will leave everyone with a throbbing headache.

  • labman57

    The Republican Party, anxiously awaiting the arrival of a rational, viable candidate for the 2012 general election for the presidency, is giving their modern day interpretation of “Waiting for Godot”.

  • Nature Freak

    LOL!

    Smores actually sound good at the moment. All I’ve had today is Black tea from Ceylon!

    I wonder if in Alaska you can buy Moose meat Tenderizer just for Moose?

    She is in good shape, so Sarah must watch her diet. Maybe she is on the Moose Atkins plan.

  • Nature Freak

    Jello Biafra:

    “Have another drink, few more pretzels, little more MSG.
     Turn on those Dallas Cowboys on your TV.
     Lock your doors. Close your mind.
    It’s time for the two-minute warning.”

  • Anonymous

    Huck is a schmuck. He is just another Fox News ankle-biter, like O’Reilly, Rove, Morris, Kraphummer & Carl Cameron. RINOs all.

  • Anonymous

    Gracias . Damn nice of you to notice what the hell Big Eddie is scribbling .

  • Valkyrie101

    If Mitt or any of them believed what you just said, they would be appealing to the republican middle, which they are not.

  • Darladoon

    don’t believe me, believe the poll numbers

  • azgrandma

    Her supporters are far too stupid to even get the fact that they are being used.

  • azgrandma

    Her supporters are far too stupid to even get the fact that they are being used.

  • http://twitter.com/Kattyusa Katty

    Ho-Hum, Sarah has waited too long and been too cutesy about whether or not she’ll run…according to the polls she hasn’t a chance and 70+% of people across the board do not want her to run…about the only people left that are interested in her ploys is the media…
    I wonder who wrote the speech for her…it sure wasn’t Palin…too dumb

  • Anonymous

    I like your humorous word play.
    I don’t think Palin is a viable Presidential candidate, but I like the bulk of her message and the way she inspires people. I like the “seasoning”, if you will.
    I especially like the way she has inspired the obsessed, liberal MSM to go nuts trying to pigeon hole her with misrepresentations. They have spent an inordinate amount of time and energy on a non-candidate to discredit her. It’s been amusing.

  • Anonymous

    Why is everything about food with this guy?!

  • Valkyrie101

    I agree that the tea party reputation is going down, but all the repub candidates are appealing to them anyway. Not a single candidate supports, for example, a woman’s right to choose.

  • Anonymous

    You had me until there is no way Mitt beats Obama. A lot of polls have shown otherwise.

  • Glutton

    So you have to be a right-wing nut job to be a real conservative? Seems like any conservative who uses an ounce of sanity gets called a “RINO” now days.

  • Glutton

    So a sane conservative is a RINO now? This is why the T-baggers need to go.

  • Valkyrie101

    Oh gosh, LA, almost having you is pretty sweet too. Polls, more than a year from the election? Look, Mitt has not yet been vetted, Texas style. Romney may be a less pretty boy after that. Anyway, the tea party will third party with Sarah before they support Romney.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    “conservative” as in what he believes in and supports – ideaology… how you leapt from that to “right-wing nut job”, I dunno… other than what you had loaded to say anyway. I didn’t call Huckabee a RINO either.

    So, aim elsewhere, skippy.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    no problem.. it is what it is… not here to defend Gretchen, and not hypocritical about it.

  • Darladoon

    that’s right.  

  • JohnJGuy

    I agree with that. He deserves more, considerably more, but it this person, who doesn’t have his capabilities that people are unnecessarily interested in.

  • Anonymous

    Huckleberryhound needs to enter the race too.  The more clowns in this circus the more fun it is to watch.  Pass the popcorn.  

  • Anonymous

    Do you have any hobbies? Seriously. You are always here commenting. Is this what you do for fun? I can blame the weather on today’s activities but I believe you live in FL so you don’t have that same excuse.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    It seems like Huckabee has more skills at being a comedian, cook and bass player than he ever did as being Governor!!

  • Nature Freak

    You know I can ask you the same question.

    It’s hot and humid here during the day. Random violent thunderstorms that are hard to predict. I might as well be living in a rain forest. Not outdoors weather. The mosquitoes are the size of birds. They will eat your soul! And my expensive kayak is for all practical purpose no good any more (bummer).
    Fall in my part of Florida (when the weather finally starts becoming awesome) is still a month away.
    Last night was 68 degrees. This is a good sign.

    For family reasons I live in a small boring town.
    Yes, going on line is one of my hobbies. I have many others. I also multitask while I am online. I like cooking. I am restoring my old house. I spend a lot of time on the phone. Easy to do all at the same time.

    Where I live is no San Diego. More like a hot and flat version of West Virginia with a few more people. There is a KKK flag less than a mile from my house. The Squidbillies would feel at home around here. Despite this, a majority of people here are honest, good and caring. They will give the shirt off their back. They are also boring as hell including intellectually.

    I am in a few minutes going on an evening walk with a friend of mine This should make you feel better.
    We all have different reasons we contribute a lot of time here (wherever are politics lie). I never question your motive and you should not question mine.

  • Nature Freak

    If it wasn’t for his aggressive pushing of evangelical Christianity, Huckabee would possibly be fun to hang out with.

  • Nature Freak

    If it wasn’t for his aggressive pushing of evangelical Christianity, Huckabee would possibly be fun to hang out with.

  • Anonymous

    Well what more do you want of a leader, you like the bulk of her message, She inspires , and I would say no one in the field even comes close to her in that. She is the most principled leader, with the will and integrity to do whats right for the country. I hope America does not miss the opportunity to have Gov. Palin as President, and that God in His goodness  thinks America deserves her.

  • Nature Freak

    My criticism of Sarah Palin is not criticism of you, WCinWI.

    Please do not take it personally.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_6MWLCWTEGO2CXRH7B6XGJR5JXA David Anderson

    Mike Huckabee has said that the Republicans need to choose a candidate that is better than Obama, otherwise he will be re-elected.  There IS only one Republican that is better than Obama, and that is Huckabee himself.  But the Republican elite will not back him because he will not sell out to them, so they will lose again.  The only possible exception would be if Romney got the nomination and asked Huckabee to be his running mate.

  • Valkyrie101

    Huck does not like Romney.

  • Glutton

    It baffles me that Minka went to Georgetown & Gretchen went to Stanford. Both of them no doubt sucked off some high up to get in.

  • Glutton

    So what is a RINO if it’s not a Republican that’s not a conservative? Saying he’s pretending to be a conservative is basically saying he’s a RINO, unless of course Huck denounced being a Republican recently.

  • Glutton

    Romney & Paul are also better than Obama. Unfortunately, the Republicans got a hard on for Rick Perry & Michele Bachmann.

  • Anonymous

    Your criticism of Palin means nothing to me. You’ve already said that you’re voting for Obama so I don’t have a clue why you post here, on a Palin thread. That makes no sense. If Palin was a public figure that held public office, then it would make sense.

    You spend an lot of time on these threads complaining and being negative. Why? That makes no sense. Go read a book. Or spend time with your family. Or figure out a way to move to a better region for these family members since your time is limited to only being online.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t think so. Palin would have to run as a third party candidate first of all, which I very much doubt that she’d do because she has more sense than to hand the election to Obama, and second of all she’s become less popular with the Tea Party lately.

  • Anonymous

    I love reading your posts.   I tolerate WC, who ironically is a very prolific poster.  Carry on. 

  • Valkyrie101

    She and Trump could run without even fundraising if they agreed to run it as a reality tv show.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2KHZWZQZFPZASXZ4KOMIS27UFU a

    “Season the food?”  All Palin does is break the crust on the cesspool….over and over again..and it stinks!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    All Republicans are not conservatives. All conservatives are not Republicans. I would presume that ’RINO’ could apply to a registered “Republican” not espousing Republican values or policies, and that person would / could / should be deemed a “Republican In Name Only”.

    My words speak for themselves. Joe is a Republican pretending to be a conservative.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    Kinda like ‘Obama went to Harvard’.

  • Anonymous

    Can Sarah get roughed up and still come out smelling like a rose? Yup. Remember the emails? 

  • Anonymous

    I think Huckabee is comfortable in his current role of well paid pundit. Romney might be wise to ask Bachmann to be his running mate, but I’m not sure she would take it, and it might look too much like McCain/Palin all over again. I don’t see Perry going for VP. The actual VP part of the ticket will probably be someone who is not even in the race yet.

  • Anonymous

    I think Huckabee is comfortable in his current role of well paid pundit. Romney might be wise to ask Bachmann to be his running mate, but I’m not sure she would take it, and it might look too much like McCain/Palin all over again. I don’t see Perry going for VP. The actual VP part of the ticket will probably be someone who is not even in the race yet.

  • Anonymous

    Asafoetida: AKA devil’s dung. :-)

  • Anonymous

    Speaking of mosquitoes, Alaska has plenty of them in summertime. What isn’t mountain is swamp, called tundra. In central Alaska, the high temp can be in the 90°rage for one day each year.

  • Anonymous

    Although, I don’t question Huckabee’s culinary expertise (as demonstrated by his large persona), I think he’s way off base on this one.  Sarah is nobody’s seasoning.  The moment she announces (which I predict she WILL) she’ll run away with the nomination.  No other GOP candidate can generate excitement and fire-up the base like she can.  She’s not just the Undefeated, but the Underestimated also.

  • Nature Freak

    Fuck You Very Much
    Lily Allen

    Look inside, look inside your tiny mind
    Then look a bit harder
    ‘Cause we’re so uninspired, so sick and tired
    Of all the hatred you harbor

    So you say it’s not okay to be gay
    Well, I think you’re just evil
    You’re just some racist who can’t tie my laces
    Your point of view is medieval

    Fuck you, fuck you very, very much
    ‘Cause we hate what you do
    And we hate your whole crew
    So please don’t stay in touch

    Fuck you, fuck you very, very much
    ‘Cause your words don’t translate
    And it’s getting quite late
    So please don’t stay in touch

    Do you get, do you get a little kick
    Out of being small minded?
    You want to be like your father
    It’s approval you’re after
    Well, that’s not how you find it

    Do you, do you really enjoy
    Living a life that’s so hateful?
    ‘Cause there’s a hole where your soul should be
    You’re losing control a bit
    And it’s really distasteful

    Fuck you, fuck you very, very much
    ‘Cause we hate what you do
    And we hate your whole crew
    So please don’t stay in touch

    Fuck you, fuck you very, very much
    ‘Cause your words don’t translate
    And it’s getting quite late
    So please don’t stay in touch

    Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you
    Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you
    Fuck you

    You say you think we need to go to war
    Well, you’re already in one
    ‘Cause it’s people like you that need to get slew
    No one wants your opinion

    Fuck you, fuck you very, very much
    ‘Cause we hate what you do
    And we hate your whole crew
    So please don’t stay in touch

    Fuck you, fuck you very, very much
    ‘Cause your words don’t translate
    And it’s getting quite late
    So please don’t stay in touch

    Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you
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