Thursday, December 8, 2011
Presidential politics Alec Baldwin and Ed Rollins talk Huckabee
Posted by Max Brantley on Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:13 AM
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- THOSE WERE THE DAYS: Ed Rollins, Mike Huckabee and Chuck Norris in the 2008 campaign.
Alec Baldwin does a radio show and podcast "Here's the Thing." Here, he talks to campaign strategist Ed Rollins, who managed Mike Huckabee's campaign in 2008. He says he'd put a team together for Huckabee in 2012 and thought Huckabee could win.
ALEC BALDWIN:What happened with Huckabee, do you think?
ED ROLLINS:
I think he basically — he had come right out of the governorship [in 2008]. It was sort of like the next thing to do, not that anybody can —
[BOTH AT ONCE]
ALEC BALDWIN:
His heart wasn't in it.
ED ROLLINS:
This time his heart wasn't in it. You know, my sense is he'd have been a great candidate.
ALEC BALDWIN:
I was convinced there was gonna be a duel between Huckabee and Romney.
ED ROLLINS:It would have been. I - I'm telling you, it would have been. And, and—
ALEC BALDWIN:
It would have been mano-a-mano.
ED ROLLINS:
No, it would have been mano-a-mano. And I had it all strategized, and that was—
[ALEC LAUGHS]
That’s, that’s - that was my—
ALEC BALDWIN:
You must be pissed! [LAUGHS]
ED ROLLINS:
I am. That's my - I had it and I knew I —
[OVERTALK]
ALEC BALDWIN:
That was your Game 7 maybe.
ED ROLLINS:
That was my, my game and I'd, I'd spent two years thinkin’ about it. You know but, as I said to him, I can't want it more than you want it.
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Please, Huck, the country needs you and Iowa certainly is going against their "christian" tradition if their major choices are Gingrich or Romney. It is your job to go in and take over the race. The country needs YOU!
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Brummett: "Huckabee was running ['08] for a show on Fox, for some speaking fees, and for some book sales, and he got it all plus a Ramada Inn-looking house of a thing on the Redneck Riviera."
http://brummett.arkansasonline.com/
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