There are a lot of X factors [about running in 2012]. Including his fellow evangelical Christian Sarah Palin. There’s a natural tension between the two, especially since Palin took the vice-presidential-nominee slot many predicted would go to him. Huckabee, diplomatic and biblical, says the Alaskan governor “energized” the party. I ask him if she was treated fairly by the media. “There were a lot of unfair things. Sexist things that would never have been asked of a male candidate.” He pauses. “Now I must say I did not think that either the Charlie Gibson interview or the Katie Couric interviews were unfair. In fact, if anything, Katie Couric was extraordinarily gentle, even helpful. [Palin] just…I don’t know what happened. I can’t explain it. It was not a good interview. I’m being charitable.”
He pauses. “I think it was overpreparation. She’d been hammered by McCain’s aides, ‘Say this, don’t say that.’”
Huckabee has met Palin a few times and talked to her backstage at the Republican National Convention.
“Did you give her any advice?”
“I didn’t figure that she was shopping for my advice.”
“But she sure was shopping.”
“Yeah,” chuckles Huckabee. Then stays quiet. I set him up for an easy spike, but he holds his tongue.
It’s like he already knows she’ll cream him in 2012. If she runs.
PS – I’ll add my own nuance here; the Couric interview would have been fair if she (or anyone for that matter) had asked the same questions of Obama. You know, they guy that was running for POTUS.
And I still don’t know what Obama reads on a daily basis.
