Welcome to the Dance Mr. Huckabee. With all the certainty and precision of
Sally Albright ordering her lunch, Mike Huckabee told Tim Russert this
morning: "Tomorrow I'll be filing papers to launch an exploratory
committee and yes I'll be out there," While "I'll be out there" might not
be the perfect 4 words for launching a Presidential campaign, the deed was
done and Huckabee is in. (Unlike Hillary he did not make it explicitly
clear whether or not he was "in to win" or just in for the fun of it.)
Russert focused much of the interview on the challenges Huckabee faced and
while not answering all of Russert's questions as directly as we would
have liked (do you believe people are born gay or choose to be gay
shouldn't be answered with "both" for example) he did fend off Russert's
aggresive questions with relative ease.