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Mike Huckabee: Rick Perry Made A ‘Tactical Mistake’ By Announcing On Day Of Iowa Straw Poll

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Mike Huckabee may not be running for President this time around, but he was up bright and early in Iowa this morning for his appearance at the Ames Straw Poll today. Chatting with the cast of Fox & Friends, Huckabee weighed in on the other Republican event of the day: the RedState gather, where Texas Gov. Rick Perry is expected to announce his candidacy. “That’s a tactical mistake,” Huckabee argued, as Perry is now turning the entire state of Iowa against him.

Huckabee noted it was a big day for Iowans, and while many disagreed with him, “I think it’s a tactical mistake to make the announcement on the day when the political center of the universe is in Ames, Iowa.” He explained that Gov. Perry taking the spotlight away is “going to already alienate a lot of people in Iowa, and he has, by sort of raining on the parade.” Given the amount of pride Huckabee sees in the people that put together the straw poll, “it breeds a lot of resentment” to rain on the parade.

He also had a bit of advice for Gov. Perry on announcing his run: “you candidacy is at its peak just before you get in,” because people don’t go on the attack when you haven’t announced yet. “The moment you step in, you go from the position of nice kitty to scat cat… you’re getting shredded the day you walk into the blade of the fan.”

The segment via Fox News below:

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  • Anonymous

    Scat cat? Wasn’t he in that Paula Adbul video?

  • ceeza

    no shade but the Iowa state fair is the last place Huck needs to be right now.. dude put the fried oreos and fried butter on a stick down and take a couple laps around the track… it was all good just a year ago..now he looks terrible..

  • Anonymous

    Sorry Rick, you can’t say you want to secede from your country and then turn around and say you want to be the country’s leader. America needs a leader who wants to stick around and work to solve our problems, not somebody like you who threatened to cut and run when he didn’t like the way things were going.

  • Chris

    This is Texas politics not Minnesota nice on display here. I remember when George Bush and Karl Rove tried to destroy McCain’s chances in 2000 by claiming he had illegally fathered his Asian child that was actually adopted by Cindy McCain during a philanthropic mission. We know how Bush and Rove went ahead to successfully paint Kerry as unpatriotic while playing the fear card masterfully in the 2004 election. Rick Perry and Dave Carney represent the same cutthroat, ruthless style of playing politics. They cut Kay Bailey Hutchinson down to size as another Washington politician in the gubernatorial race. Texas politics is not softball; it is tough and mean. Good luck Mitt Romney, Michelle Bachmann, and the other candidates in the field. You’re going to need it taking on Rick Perry.  

  • Hagen619dj

    On, give them a chance. We’re just getting started with this debockle.  Let them get their feet on the ground and try the best they can. We all know Obama isn’t doing his job and has failed. Now we need to give the others a chance to see what their “changes” will be…or try to be!  Can’t pass judgement until you’ve seen or heard any of them and what they have on their minds. At least this time…i think people will be much more selective than they were last election. Being part of the era of having the first black man for president was the excitement of last election. The younger people wanted to see what he was able to do.  Now that that idea has faded; it’s time for everyone to “pony up” and elect the right one for the job.

  • bhodiedog

    Can you give me an AMEN BROTHER?  Just saw Perry’s announcement…Looks like Sarah Palin in a cowboy hat and suit, complete with the winks….Can’t wait for them to tear that Texas record apart, that he is so proud of..apart…That’s the last thing The United States needs is another Texas governor in cowboy boots to run this country further into the ground…….

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_D7ZXLQWAIWYID3S5BJYQEETHTQ DavidT

    Iowa does not matter.  They voted for Obama in 2008 so they should move this event and the dogs to a “red state”!

  • Anonymous

    Glad you got the talking points down. Texas is creating jobs faster than Obama collects accolades from the MSM/UN/MSDNC. The problem for Obama is the Texas record. 

  • Anonymous

    So Obama and his Chicago mafia are choir boys ? If you want a lesson in dirty politics, fear mongering and name calling – just look at the Dems in the Wisconsin recall – that makes Texans look nice.

  • Anonymous

    If he’s elected president, will he secede from himself?

  • Anonymous

    But 2 great, patriotic Murcuhn heeroes.  Thank Gawd.

  • Anonymous

    He needs to shut Huck up!  He said nary a word about Palin’s grandstanding arse showing up.  Man, is the GOP full of nuts.  

  • azgrandma

    Oh and now another whiney crybaby?  It is just totally laughable!

  • Nature Freak

    Could be interesting.

  • Anonymous

    Just one more glaring example of why ( Thank God ) Huckabee isn’t president.

  • Anonymous

    Just one more glaring example of why ( Thank God ) Huckabee isn’t president.

  • Bonnie Fletcher

    Have you really looked at the record in Texas?  Pay more attention before you make up your mind, lots of LOW PAYING jobs, cutting educational funds, secession from the country of whom you want to be president, very poor environment with virtually no care to pollution, look at it carefully before you vote for this man. Do you really want America to look like Texas, I don’t.

  • NeverWrong

    Yo Mikey Huckabee, just shuit the hell up. You ain’t got the balls to run so just shut up. You are a quitter, something another backwoods, redneck country Gov. Billy Bob Boy Clinton was not. You have earned nothing in your lifetime that can tell a candidate if they should run or why they shouldn’t so just SHUT UP…!

    Oh yeah, didn’t you quit as a Baptist minister too? Huck, you are nothing more than a quitter so shut the F*** up, you overweight moron!

  • NeverWrong

    shuit is Arkansas Redneck Huchabilly slang for ‘shut’ or so I hear. Actually it was a typo. he,he,he

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_J6K37DAH5SHYQQ5Y77FKNJYFBM Rodolfo V.

    Mr “I’m not running, cause I’ll lose” making any kind of comments is asinine! TEA’s are anti gays, anti Hispanic, anti Islamic, anti government, anti other-than-christian, anti black and on and on and on! Bachmann the poison on the tip of the spear and every effort must be taken to shut her down! Every TEA/GOP-er running for the presidency shows how far right they are in comparison to the middle America they espouse to represent! TEA party Yahoos are closely associating themselves with GOD in an effort to bring the evangelicals to vote for their narrow-minded religious based beliefs they want to shove onto the American public! Do not get swayed America, The constitution does say “separation of church and state” and the Yahoos are not doing this. The TEA party’s skewed thought processes are the culmination of the bigoted extremist of the TEA party which has subverted the GOP! Michelle Bachmann is the poison at the tip of the spear she spoke about. She began spewing lies when given the open mike and tried hard to give her entire spiel before stopped. She’s in a “Bad-mouth Obama” spiel to make her points and that’s what she is running on! Let’s yank all the TEA party-ers out of their FOX-hole and teach them a lesson! TEA party-ers lie profusely! These Yahoos want to protect the richest of the rich as they are already in their pockets! The sad result is the defunct GOP resulting from the TEA party subverting any sanity and taking the once proud GOP to the fringe of lunacy!

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