Mike Huckabee Wants Us to Decide Whether He’s Really Dumb or Really Smart

[yellowcanine]

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/03/mike_huckabee_wants_us_to_deci.html

Huckabee quote from the article:

"The interesting thing, the reaction ranged from, 'This guy is so dumb he doesn't know that Barack Obama grew up in Indonesia not Kenya,' all the way to the other extreme. I saw people like Andrea Mitchell saying, 'Oh no, he did this on purpose, he is very smart and shrewd, he did this in a calculating way.' Well Tim, I can't be both. I can't be the dumbest guy in the room and the smartest guy in the room at the same time. I have to be one or the other, or maybe it's just that I made a mistake and I corrected it, which is exactly what it was."



Amazing. I know I say it often, but you really can't make up shit like this. The man is still digging. "Oh the humanity!"

To answer his question as posed, I would say to Mike that yes it actually is possible for you to be both at the same time. All you have to do is move from a room full of reasonable people into a room full of your loyal followers.

[walldude]

1. Not dumb.. not smart.. Just an ASSHOLE. n/t

[opihimoimoi]

2. Smelly asshole.... :o)

[flakey_foont]

8. agreed

just a big asshole trying to coddle to teabaggers

God - check
Obama not born in US - check
taxes bad - check
Reagan greatest person who ever lived and will ever live
in this or any other universe - check

[TwilightGardener]

3. OK, I've decided.

[Johonny]

4. I'll go with semi-smart

he has zero chance at winning the presidency. Yet he's turned a failed run into a TV show, turned fear of Obama care in to a money making TV scam. I see him a lot like Palin, Newt and Romney. They are conservative reality TV stars. Not really political figures because it was ages ago they were in politics. They are all making $$ off the stupid. He's smart enough to know how to make it and how to stay in the reality show that is conservative TV land, radio land. Like so many of these people I think he smart enough to know he won't win anything, the point isn't to win but raise lots of money, money you can funnel to yourself after you lose.

[Bandit]

5. Made a mistake?????and continued it without blinking

I believe "growing up" in a place covers more than leaving when you were seven years old..That is way to young to join the Boy Scouts by the way...

[yellowcanine]

7. The mistake he made was blowing a dog whistle for the birfers and thinking no one would call him on

it. And then not having the gonads to deliver an actual apology instead of lame excuses and more dog whistles such as talking about boy scouts and rotary clubs vs madrassas. And also of course making up shit out of thin air such as incorrectly citing his own book by page number in claiming that he explains the Indonesia connection when in fact there is no mention of Indonesia.

[FlyByNight]

6. More of the latter but panders to the former

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