Rove: Palin resignation part of a 'risky strategy' - Yahoo! News
WASHINGTON – One of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin 's potential presidential rivals said Sunday that her abrupt resignation won't help her dodge scrutiny. President George W. Bush 's chief political adviser said her strategy is, at best, unclear. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Palin's announcement that she would not seek a second term — and leave office before finishing her first — simply doesn't make sense in a conventional political setting. Karl Rove , a longtime Bush...

Huckabee: Palin May Not Be Able To Handle Pressure Of Presidential Run
WASHINGTON — One of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's potential presidential rivals said Sunday that her abrupt resignation won't help her dodge scrutiny. President George W. Bush's chief political adviser said her strategy is, at best, unclear. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Palin's announcement that she would not seek a second term -- and leave office before finishing her first -- simply doesn't make sense in a conventional political setting. Then again, the pair said, Palin has never...

Mike Huckabee’s new show get a similar “View”….
Former Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee has a new show debuting 8 p.m. EDT Saturday and Sunday on the Fox News Channel. The show is simply titled “Huckabee,” he said. “I’m sure the name will make it easy for all of you to find it,” Huckabee wrote on his political action committee’s blog. Sarah Huckabee, the former Arkansas [...]

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Fox Business Network Band [Why?]
Hey, it's Mike Huckabee and "The Fox Business Network Band" playing "Learn to Fly." We're pretty sure we saw these guys play after GB Leighton on TC Muzique back in '96.

Rove Cold On Palin's Move: "It Hurts" Her Chances in 2012
Karl Rove who successfully guided President Bush to the White House twice, was remarkably cold on Sarah Palin's decision to resign as governor of Alaska during an appearance on Fox News Sunday. The former Bush strategist and current Republican commentator argued that it was "not clear" what Palin's strategy was in resigning just two-and-a-half years into office, adding that the move was risky,m left her vulnerable to her critics, and would damage her chances of becoming president. "I think it...

Huckabee: "Maria" Sotomayor Comes From "The Far Left"
Mike Huckabee was ahead of the pack today in releasing a statement criticizing President Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court. There was only one problem: he got his target's name wrong.

'Idol' Allen duets with Huckabee - Yahoo! News
LOS ANGELES – "American Idol" winner Kris Allen is already thinking about getting into politics. The 23-year-old acoustic crooner from Conway, Arkansas , duets with Mike Huckabee (HUCK'-a-bee') during an appearance on the former Arkansas governor's Fox News Channel show scheduled to air Saturday. Huckabee, who ran unsuccessfully for the Republican presidential nomination last year, backs up Allen on bass for The Beatles'...

Huckabee -- You Think Biden's Hot?
Mike Huckabee was cornered at LaGuardia Airport yesterday ... forced, we thought, to take a stand on Joe Biden 's body of work . Hey Mike, what's under your shirt???

Arts, Briefly: Host of Huckabee Is Whom Youd Expect
Mike Huckabee will make his debut as a television host on his own Fox News show, The Associated Press reported.

Blago: Brother's Taped Call With Burris Shows 'Nothing Inappropriate'
CHICAGO (AP) -- Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich says a recently released phone conversation taped secretly by federal authorities shows his brother participated in "nothing inappropriate." Blagojevich spoke Saturday on Fox News to presidential candidate-turned talk show host Mike Huckabee.

Kris Allen vs. Justin Gaston: Battle of the Yesterdays
Both have recently recorded versions of the Beatles classic "Yesterday"—Gaston in a YouTube video , and Allen during a guest appearance on former Arkansas governor and GOP Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee 's Fox News program. (Huckabee even accompanies Allen on the bass.) Check out the videos below, and let us know in the comments section —whose version do you prefer, Kris' or Justin's?

Liveblogging Mike Huckabee’s Socialist Agenda At The RNC
Mike Huckabee was one of the best failed presidential candidates in the world: from his kinky public sex hijinks with his frightening wife, to his comical insistence on staying in the primary race because he went to the College of God instead of the College of Maths, and also that time he fucked a squirrel on Arkansas public television. What wonderful things will he say tonight, at the Republican National Convention, in order to make John McCain regret not picking the other pleasant wingnut Christian govern

Mike Huckabee: The Laughing Man
It's funny, the nicest guy in a political party of not-very-nice guys is also its most unbending cultural samurai. By A.J. Jacobs [ more from this author ]

Potent Quotables: Huckabee Mocks Madge
Filed under: Potent Quotables, CampaignwatchSpinner.com: "The reporting of the past few days have proven tackier than a costume change at a Madonna concert." --Mike Huckabee The former presidential hopeful used his speech at the RNC as an opportunity to slam Madonna, whose tour visual effects offended his... Read more

Jeremy Scahill: "Better Than Cats!" Neocons, Republicans and War Criminals Rave About Obama’s ‘Team of Rivals.’
"[S]uperb...the best of the Washington insiders...this will be a valedictocracy -- rule by those who graduate first in their high school classes." --David Brooks, conservative New York Times columnist "[V]irtually perfect..." --Senator Joe Lieberman, former Democrat and John McCain's top surrogate in the 2008 campaign. "[R]eassuring." --Karl Rove, "Bush's brain." "I am gobsmacked by these appointments, most of which could just as easily have come from a President McCain...this all but puts an end to the

Salmon Rushdie says VP pick Palin is 'a joke' (AFP)
AFP - British author Salmond Rushdie branded US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin as a "joke" Sunday and said naming her as Republican John McCain's running mate was a "colossal misjudgement"....Full Article @ yahoo celebrity news Comment Share Email Post Your Comment say something interesting separate usernames and e

Movie Review - JCVD - It’s All About Him, No Matter Who He Claims to Be - NYTimes.com
Steven Seagal is cutting off his ponytail. This bit of news

Huckabee: Interview With Russell Simmons 2/28
Huckabee sits down for an interview with Russell Simmons. Simmons has played a large role in the hip hop industry & was the creator of Def Comedy Jam, De...

Hardball Panel Debates Palin's Presidential Ambitions: "She Thinks She's Got A Shot... But She Needs An Education" (VIDEO)
Pat Buchanan and Newsweek's Howard Fineman joined Lawrence O'Donnell (filling in for Chris Matthews) on "Hardball" tonight to discuss Sarah Palin's presidential ambitions. Both think she has her sights trained on the Oval Office, however it's unclear if that means 2012 or beyond. Unsurprisingly, Buchanan, a staunch supporter of Palin, is a bit more bullish on her prospects than Fineman. Fineman returned to a theme that has dogged Palin ever since she first stepped onto the national stage: her...

McCain vows to whip Obama’s ‘you know what’
AP - Republican John McCain vowed Sunday to "whip" Democratic rival Barack Obama’s "you-know-what" when the two presidential candidates meet Wednesday in their final televised debate. McCain made that pledge as top advisers said he is weighing new economic proposals to help the nation weather the financial crisis. The Arizona senator refused to answer a reporter’s question Sunday about what plans he might be considering. Addressing several dozen volunteers at his campaign headquarters outside

Sarah Palin's Resignation In A Minute...And A Half (VIDEO)
Watching Sarah Palin's press conference on Friday was like watching a drunk seal trying to land a plane, or in basketball terms (which Sarah prefers) like watching a grade-schooler try to score on Kobe while jabbering inanely. As Gail Collins put it: "When she ran for vice president, she frequently became disjointed and garbled when she departed from her prepared remarks. Now the prepared remarks are incoherent, too." There was something about a fish and sports and a lot about politics and not...

Steele: GOP needs 'hip-hop' makeover - Washington Times
Newly elected Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele plans an “off the hook” public relations offensive to attract younger voters, especially blacks and Hispanics, by applying the party's principles to “urban-suburban hip-hop settings.”

Liar, Liar, The GOP’s Party’s On Fire!
In the most intense night of Republicans attacks yet at the RNC08, the party rolled out many of it’s failed primary candidates and led by their “pit bull in a skirt,” Sarah Palin who proceeded to tell one LIE after the other on Barack Obama and the Democratic Party. While focusing on personal attacks against Obama, neither Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Rudolph Guiliani nor Palin offered any suggestions on how to jump start the economy, create new jobs or provide a solution to our energy cri

GOP Palin-Basher Liz Trotta: Palin Is Inarticulate and Undereducated-- Maureen Dowd is Smart & Funny
Sick. Liz Trotta, an east coast Palin-hater, attacked Sarah Palin again today. Trotta said Palin Palin has given them lots of raw meat and is "inarticulate and undereducated" and hadn't accomplished anything. Trotta said Palin "brought the attacks on herself." And, to top it off, Trotta said Maureen Dowd's latest hit piece on Palin was well written, smart and funny. Liz Trotter, please go away:

Rove & Friends Laugh Off Shoe-Bomb [Fun]
newVideoPlayer("/Karl_Rove_Shoe_Fox.flv", 506, 423,"");Oh, the fun they have on Fox & Friends.Karl Rove is brandishing a shoe and screaming "DOOCY!" and then he makes a joke about when Bush met Putin, and everyone is just having a ball.Then they were all beaten, repeatedly, by Iraqi Security forces and sent to a military internment camp for additional beatings.