Huckabee: I Won't Be Mistake-Free

By: Joy Lin
Topics: Mike Huckabee

(CBS)

From CBS News' Joy Lin:

GREENVILLE, S.C. – Reporters were interested in hearing what Mike Huckabee had to say about today's Associated Press story which dug up statements he made in an AP survey while running for the Senate in 1992. In that survey, Huckabee said AIDS patients should be put into quarantine and he opposed increased federal funding for AIDS research.

At an event this morning, he didn't address the subject directly, though he did say this:

"Many of you know that I'm a human being that's going to make a whole lot of mistakes, in fact you're going to hear that I am a human being that's made a lot of mistakes. In fact, if you don't know that yet, just keep reading all the press releases from my opponents. And when they can't find enough, they'll make some up."

"And that's politics," he added. "The reason that we're doing what we're doing is because for a lot of people this campaign is no longer about the politics of the past. It is about the principles that we believe will give us the best hope for our future."

Approximately 450 people were here at the local mall, where Huckabee first started playing bass guitar with a band before speaking to the audience.

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by pjacobsuk December 9, 2007 3:44 PM EST: Spot On!! In this day and age, the only way any person can survive the media is by having a strong constitution that withstands the dirt spreading gauntlet of journalist.; Reply to this comment


by lanefiller1 December 9, 2007 11:01 AM EST: Anyone interested in what Huckabee is really like face to face should
try
this funny (but it actually happened) column:
http://goupstate.us/index.php/lanefiller/2007/11/02/title_14; Reply to this comment


by winghunter December 8, 2007 11:48 PM EST: The Huckster was also rightly for Federalism on abortion just a year ago. Apparently he figured there was more votes in demanding a pro-life amendment which doesn''t stand a chance in passing.
His "fair" tax would raise everything we buy by 30%!
He freed Dumond and lied to our faces about it.
He doesn''t have a clue what a foreign policy looks like let alone know how to create one but, he does know how to reinvent himself.

Let the mid-level manager play his guitar and head back to church until he figures out what it teaches....right from wrong.; Reply to this comment


by sleepdecay December 8, 2007 11:34 PM EST: It seems that playing the guitar is one of Mike%u2019s highest credentials for the presidency since he spends so much time showboating his %u201Cskill%u201D on the trail, or maybe it is just filler for lack of substance. I predict the so-called "Hucka-boom" will turn out to be a big fat Hucka-dud as soon as voters take a serious look at his hollow resume.; Reply to this comment


by December 8, 2007 11:12 PM EST: Governor Huckabee is not a ''Politician'', he is a "Statesman''. The difference is that a statesman cares more about the ''Next Generation'' rather than the ''Next Election''. He will win the nomination & will become a great president; Reply to this comment


by oscar19861 December 8, 2007 5:30 PM EST: Huckabee not only makes mistakes, but he makes them for the wrong reasons- religious zealotry.

I still like him though, and hope he is the nominee. He cares about people-health, education, and the poor. He has a good heart.

The other republicans seem heartless.; Reply to this comment