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Romney, Huckabee Officially Feuding

Hey MIKE HUCKABEE, Mittens “Willard” Romney sees your new book’s disparaging excerpts directed at him and raises you a brisk retort through “Eric” the traveling spokesman! “This type of pettiness is beneath Mike Huckabee… If we’re going to move the party forward, we need to offer more than personal recriminations. Unfortunately, in this book, Mike Huckabee is consumed with presumed slights, and he seems more interested in settling scores than in bringing people together.” Tragically, the “Mitt Camp” is in the right here and will score some 2012 Points on this. A windfall for Mittens! Well howdy doo about that.

Mike Huckabee does not come across as very Presidential when he writes a snide, intemperate volume of whiny rants transparently disguised as a string of bad metaphors. Not folksy! Just bad. To repeat, Huckabee writes in his mean new book that fairest Mittens was “anything but conservative until he changed the light bulbs in his chandelier in time to run for president.” So light bulbs are his policy stances, and his chandelier is his platform, yes? And chandelier specifically because Mitt Romney is a very rich man, yes yes? Then it’s pretty clear that Mike Huckabee is insulting Trig here.

A SUFFERING CHILD.

Disgraceful.

Huck unloads on Mitt; Romney camp hits back [Jonathan Martin]


5:36 PM on Mon November 17 2008
By Jim Newell
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  1. Vewol Mevemont says at 5:41 pm, November 17th, 2008

    Can we put Mittens, the tundra tard, and Huckabee in a cage and let them fight it out?

  2. Toomush Infermashun says at 5:42 pm, November 17th, 2008

    Hey, can I qualify for a brisk retort from Mittens, too? Sounds easy and fun!…. Of course, it being Huckabee, this is more like Atari Pong….

  3. BarthexDeRosa says at 5:43 pm, November 17th, 2008

    When Mike and Mitt fight, ALL God’s children suffer…

  4. accidental_tourist says at 5:43 pm, November 17th, 2008

    It’s the thick, luxurious hair. It’s why he wasn’t chosen for the balding Walnut VP, and why Chuckles the Bald Spot hates him. Seriously.

  5. Anita Cocktail says at 5:44 pm, November 17th, 2008

    I can’t wait ’til Huckabee starts stress eating again…

  6. PrairiePossum says at 5:44 pm, November 17th, 2008

    The two of them need to take a trip to Brokeback Mountain and hug it out like real men.

  7. I hope the Romney/Huckabee feud continues to build until it finally gets settled… in a STEEL CAGE MATCH at WRESTLEMANIA! Make it be for the Intercontinental Championship why not.

  8. Huck shouldn’t have lashed out so viciously with that chandelier dis … although I still don’t get it.

  9. NoWireHangers says at 5:48 pm, November 17th, 2008

    Mittens is like the rich kid everyone hates and nobody wants to play with, but he has a bunch of cool toys so they play with him and then make fun of him behind his back.

  10. ManchuCandidate says at 5:48 pm, November 17th, 2008

    G’N R’s Civil War (a rock band that took 16 fucking years between albums)

    Look at Huckabee talking
    Look at Mittens crying
    Look at Republicans flopping
    The way they’ve done once before

    Look at the hate they’re breeding
    Look at the fear they’re reaping
    Hear the laughter they’re creating
    The way they’ve always done before

    My sides are tired
    As I belly laugh from side to side
    And the fights go on with brainwashed pride
    For the lust for God and full bragging rights
    And all these things are brought outside
    By stupid shits time can’t deny
    And that crazy ass internal genocide
    And history writes the tales of your civil wars

  11. Jukesgrrl says at 5:51 pm, November 17th, 2008

    Editors: In that photo, Mittens looks like he’s taking a dump in his pants. What does that have to do with Handsome President Kennedy (the Hopey prototype), who, shown here, is obviously burdened by the affairs of Cuber or, more probably, the affairs of Jackie? Mittens taking a dump over something Huckabee said about his chandelier is DISTINCTLY possible, though, so for God’s sake, show a picture of a chandelier.

  12. HOW DISRESPECTFUL of Barack Obama to allow intra-partisan bickering in a supposedly “post-partisan” world.

  13. freeatlast says at 5:53 pm, November 17th, 2008

    “…Mike Huckabee is consumed with presumed slights, and he seems more interested in settling scores than in bringing people together.” Bringing people together? Is Mitts endorsing Obama now? Jesus. The Republican party is truly fucked. Obama’s election is the gift that keeps on giving…

  14. Want to see the ravages of alcoholism–tune into Hardball and take a look at Hitchypoo. Sweating, shaking, hair all messed up, shirt unbuttoned. Ick!

  15. DeLand DeLakes says at 5:56 pm, November 17th, 2008

    Vewol Mevemont: It will be called the 2012 GOP primary season, and it will be rated XXX for raw Pentecost-on-Mormon action. It will end with the sad remnants of the Republican party imploding in a ball of white light.

  16. I suspect this quote isn’t really from his book, but from a game of Political Madlibs that Huck was playing. Like “before he changed the _________ (noun) in his ________ (noun).” See? That’s the only explanation. It could have just as easily have been “anything but conservative before he changed the troll in his weenie.” or the like.

  17. sowbelly says at 6:01 pm, November 17th, 2008

    This is Huckabee’s audition to fill the void left by the late great Mr. Blackwell

  18. How come Republican’s can’t reject and denounce each other? It seems like that is only for Dems to do.

    I’d actually like Huckleberry to write a banjo song denouncing Mormons for not worshipping the one true faith, which of course is Raelism or Rael or whatever those people that are even the Scientoligists reject. Ya know those cloning ones.

  19. JadedDIssonance says at 6:05 pm, November 17th, 2008

    DeLand DeLakes: a white ball of light is too good for em. I say let it end in a blood-wracked, slimy ooze that slowly liquefies as it seeps out of sight to the mournful tunes of Nickelback.

  20. Toomush Infermashun says at 6:06 pm, November 17th, 2008

    Mustang: Okay, I’ll bite: —Huckabee— in his —-Magic Underpants—?
    Go!

  21. Mittens better hope those bulbs weren’t compact fluorescents, or he’ll have Michele Bachmann on his case, too.

  22. charlesdegoal says at 6:07 pm, November 17th, 2008

    Can any pettiness be beneath Huckabee or any of those other clowns? Does any of them come out as “Presidential”? They’re just the dregs of a moribund party that has taken on the personality of its inept, ridiculous leaders. Let’s talk about something else. Like Hula hoops.

  23. psychedelicSludge says at 6:15 pm, November 17th, 2008

    Yes, he was anything but a conservative until he employed rams’ bladders to prevent earthquakes. If you know what I mean.

  24. SayItWithWookies says at 6:18 pm, November 17th, 2008

    These guys are so cute. They think they’re Prometheus, when in fact they’re the crows.

  25. hedgehog says at 6:20 pm, November 17th, 2008

    Huckabee had better watch out or the Mormons will sponsor a proposition to outlaw sex between fat people in Arkansas … he’ll never get any again.

  26. I can haz schedenfreudgasm?

  27. psychedelicSludge says at 6:23 pm, November 17th, 2008

    Mitt-lander: I’ve never been able to … able to … “turn right”.
    Hansel Huckabee: Are you challenging me to a sulk-off?
    (and other quasi-zoolander-related hijinx)

  28. Lazy Media says at 6:24 pm, November 17th, 2008

    Alt text: One of these things is not like the other.

  29. Texan Bulldoggette says at 6:25 pm, November 17th, 2008

    Excuse me, but isn’t Hucklebee a REVEREND or PASTOR or somesuch man of God thingy? Should he be trashing other children of God & accusing them of having chandeliers? I mean whose chandeliers would Jesus mock?

  30. hedgehog: No need to outlaw it, his erect penis can’t possibly reach beyond the bulge of his crotch fat anyway.

  31. This is EXCELLENT news… for John McCain

  32. Toomush Infermashun says at 6:31 pm, November 17th, 2008

    SayItWithWookies: Wow! I salute, you, Agamemnon….!

  33. problemwithcaring says at 6:32 pm, November 17th, 2008

    This is Team Mittens all the way! He really unleashes in the latest issue of Vogue:

    * On things Huckabee has said in the past: “There was stuff printed there that was definitely from a time when I was unaware that it was happening. I felt those details were a little inappropriate to discuss. That stuff about how he couldn’t wait to get to Iowa every day? That was really uncool.”
    * On whether or not he’s talked to John McCain: “A few very kind hellos . . . and congratulations on your black babies.”
    * On her relationship with the GOP: “People need to mind their own business! Did you ever think Claudia Schiffer and David Copperfield made sense? Love just shows up.”
    * On John McCain openly discussing dumping him: “Trust me, you’ll never see that happen again from that man.”

  34. qwerty42 says at 6:34 pm, November 17th, 2008

    “…If we’re going to move the party forward, we need to offer more than personal recriminations….”
    totes!
    but, if personal recriminations are all you’ve got (and considering that it can’t be that the party and platform sucked), then fire at will.

  35. psychedelicSludge says at 6:46 pm, November 17th, 2008

    looks to me like Will Farrel is a shoe-in for the Mitt Romney biopic.

  36. bitchincamaro says at 6:52 pm, November 17th, 2008

    SKS could take some metaphor torture lessons from this fat fuck.

  37. Mull_Man says at 6:56 pm, November 17th, 2008

    Vewol Mevemont: Yes - that’s it - Palin’s new nickname: tardblossom. She and Rove can now commence coupling.

  38. hockeymom says at 7:08 pm, November 17th, 2008

    Wow, this is JUST like the last episode of “Gossip Girl”!
    Mittens is Blair and Huckabee is Serena. McCain is that vaguely ethnic chick nobody likes because she’s a total maverick downer and plus, she wears ugly clothes.

    But Mittens and Huckabee will eventually make up and bond over hot shoes at Barneys.
    xoxo

  39. Vewol Mevemont: We don’t have to, in 2012 they’ll do it for us.

  40. JadedDIssonance:

    even better, have these fuckers personally hand out each and every one of the reparations checks to the muslims…complete with handshake

  41. glamourdammerung says at 7:30 pm, November 17th, 2008

    And this is why the GOP being so much of a cult of personality makes for great lulz.

  42. myheadsexploding says at 7:35 pm, November 17th, 2008

    Hucklebee for Tonight Show host! Mittens for spikey sidekick! GlacierTard for Announcer Girl(Guys? and Gals?)! Also.

  43. They secretly want to buttsecks each other, like when little boys hit little girls because they want to see their hoo-hahs.

  44. AnnieGetYourFun says at 10:00 pm, November 17th, 2008

    The thing that bugs me the most about the side-by-side photo? Kennedy looks (in a pencil drawing) very deep in thought. Romney looks like he is mid-way through an impression of an “I Dream of Genie”-style spell-casting.

  45. So if one of these guys had gotten the nomination, we could have had fun accusing the nominee of being anti-Baptist/anti-Mormon, and Obama could have given speeches about how essential it’d be for the loser to be the Veep nominee. Part of that is partisan muckery, part of it is our cultural fondness for buddy/romance movies where the two guys or male/female lead start out hating each other, have comic misadventures, then fall madly in manlove/romantic love.

  46. A duel of wits between unarmed losers seems uninteresting.

    Also, 2012 is a long, long way off.

  47. schvitzatura says at 6:05 am, November 18th, 2008

    Perhaps we should trace Flunkabee’s ancestry to see if there are any Fanchers or Bakers.

    I’m sure that Romney’s LDSers would be more than glad to assist, seeing as they are the preeminent genealogists (more postmortem conversions…) in solving the bitter sniping between these two numb nuts.

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