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Mike Huckabee First Presidential Candidate to Appear on Imus
The Washington Post ^ | 12/2/07 | Michael Shear

Posted on 12/02/2007 10:40:32 PM PST by Fargo Rock

Political frontrunners often get overly cautious. Not so for Iowa frontrunner Mike Huckabee, who is waiting just 24 hours to be a guest on radio shock jock Don Imus's new show.

Imus, who was forced to resign after referring to the Rutgers women's basketball team as a bunch of "nappy headed hos," starts his new nationally syndicated show on Monday on WABC-AM. On Tuesday morning, Huckabee appears as a guest.

According to Huckabee's schedule, he will do a telephone interview at 7:30 a.m. central time. He is spending Monday and Tuesday campaigning in Iowa, where a new Des Moines Register survey puts him ahead of former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney by five percentage points. The poll shows Huckabee with 29 percent support and Romney with 24 percent.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: election; huckabee; imus
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1 posted on 12/02/2007 10:40:35 PM PST by Fargo Rock
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To: Fargo Rock
If Michael Dale Huckabee or Willard Mitt Romney win the
Republican nominee for POTUS, Conservatives are not wanted
in the republicrat party.
3 posted on 12/02/2007 10:48:41 PM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (Rudy,Romney,McCain, Huckabee will send a self-abused stomped elephant to the DRNC.)
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To: Fargo Rock

A Hasbeen meets a Nobody—compelling radio!


4 posted on 12/02/2007 10:52:49 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (...sigh...)
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To: Fargo Rock

Hope he doesn’t call him a nappy-haired huckster and get in trouble first day. ;-)


5 posted on 12/02/2007 10:57:41 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRGeT)
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To: Fargo Rock

Does Huck know that Imus has called the President and VP liars about WMD and war criminals? And has spent years undermining them, our troops and our missions?

Sickening.


6 posted on 12/02/2007 11:00:10 PM PST by roses of sharon
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To: roses of sharon

I disagree about undermining the troops. Without Imus, Brooke Army Medical Center might still be in the building process. He also hammered every politician and reporter that appeared on his show about Walter Reed.


7 posted on 12/02/2007 11:06:21 PM PST by Fargo Rock
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To: Fargo Rock

Ah, he’s back, good, so...when is Hillary scheduled?


8 posted on 12/02/2007 11:09:58 PM PST by Atchafalaya
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

GASBAG HUCK! GASBAG HUCK! GASBAG HUCK!


9 posted on 12/02/2007 11:14:39 PM PST by A. Morgan (John Edwards, Osama Obama , Hillary are all three tied for BIGGEST doofus award!)
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To: Fargo Rock

The flim flam Baptist man will do absolutely ANYTHING to be president.


10 posted on 12/02/2007 11:17:21 PM PST by SHEENA26
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To: Fargo Rock

I clicked on their “report offensive comments” link and said I was glad he was back and asked when could I expect Hillary to do a live interview? I wait for an answer...crickets et al...


11 posted on 12/02/2007 11:18:04 PM PST by Atchafalaya
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To: Fargo Rock
He harmed the troops everyday that he undermined his President, calling our mission a lie, and slandering him and the VP as war criminals and murders, giving comfort to the enemy so that they were righteous in their fight, encouraging them to hang on longer.

Not to mention what it does to the American people’s resolve, when there own government Representatives appear on a “Tokyo Rose” show like Imus’.

12 posted on 12/02/2007 11:56:29 PM PST by roses of sharon
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He’s raised over $25,000,000 for the Intrepid Fallen Heroes fund and Brooke Army Medical Center. That is not someone who is undermining the troops.

“The Center for the Intrepid and the two new Fisher Houses will be operated by the Defense Department, but building them was purely a private endeavor. Radio-show host and contributor Don Imus helped raise the last 40 percent of the funds for the center by campaigning on his show for six weeks. Richard Santulli, chairman of the Fallen Heroes Fund, said, “That’s the American way, we don’t expect the government to address every need in our lives.” But some question why private funds were necessary. The Veterans Affairs department¹s budget has grown from $48 billion in fiscal year 2001 to $80 billion in 2007, and funding for veteran health care is up 70 percent since 2000. But the costs of the current conflicts are yet to be realized, even as the armed forces expand to cope with new threats and current burdens.”


13 posted on 12/03/2007 12:54:26 AM PST by Fargo Rock
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To: Fargo Rock

I would say it’s 50/50 odds that Huckabee, being the enthusiastic smart-ass that he is, will make some kind of comment in which he works in the phrase ‘nappy headed’.

We’re headed for a John McCain-esque ‘I’m like Luke Skywalker’ kinda moment.

A bad wreck, we can’t help but watch/listen. LOL


14 posted on 12/03/2007 1:37:55 AM PST by mkjessup (Hunter-Bolton '08 !! Patriots who will settle for nothing less than *Victory* in the War on Terror!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He just lost that 10% black vote we usually get...


15 posted on 12/03/2007 1:59:40 AM PST by johnny7 ("But that one on the far left... he had crazy eyes")
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To: Fargo Rock

That doesn’t surprise me. What is surprising is that McCain wasn’t the first one, followed closely by John Effing Kerry.


16 posted on 12/03/2007 3:47:57 AM PST by Past Your Eyes (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.)
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To: Fargo Rock

Huckabee was a regular guest on the old Imus show.

I think Imus has some affection for the guy.

I was expecting it.


17 posted on 12/03/2007 4:31:20 AM PST by Nextrush (Proudly uncommitted in the 2008 race for president for now,, but McCain and Paul never)
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What would you clowns be saying if Fred had done this?


18 posted on 12/03/2007 4:37:46 AM PST by dano1
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To: roses of sharon
Imus also helped to get the life insurance death benefit for the military raised from $25,000 to $250,000.

There is a lot you can say about Imus ....but he was never anti-military !! Give the guy his just due please !!

19 posted on 12/03/2007 4:55:41 AM PST by W-Girl
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I LIKE MIKE!


20 posted on 12/03/2007 6:37:42 AM PST by Renah
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