Huckabee on money, Fred
Posted: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 12:58 PM by Domenico Montanaro
From NBC's Lauren Appelbaum
Speaking to Tim Russert on MSNBC this morning,
Huckabee said
he's happy with his placement in the polls right now, and if he were
some of the other candidates, he'd be severely depressed.
"If you look at where we are, even with the national polls, we've spent
a nickel to the 100-dollar bill as some of these guys," Huckabee said
from Dearborn, Mich. "It's not that I'm depressed thinking where we
are. Heck, I'm pretty encouraged. If I were some of these guys who had
spent tens of millions of dollars and weren't any further ahead, I'd
have to be sitting in a warm tub of water with razor blades in both
hands at this point saying how much money does one have to spend to get
on track."
The former Arkansas governor also welcomed
Fred Thompson to the
debate. Thompson skipped the last Republican debate, instead opting to
go on the Tonight Show to announce his candidacy. Speaking to Leno,
Thompson said he did not like debates with "10 guys or however many
show up with 30- to 40-second sound bites," and preferred to debate in
small groups or one-on-one. Huckabee took Thompson up on the offer, but
Thompson later declined to debate with Huckabee.
"I encouraged him to do what he said he wanted to do, and that was sit down one-on-one and have debates," Huckabee said. "He said he didn't like the format. I suggested that maybe we sit down, and I'd be certainly willing to go an hour and a half in the old Lincoln-Douglass style debates, but he rejected that. I'm glad he's going to be there tonight. I think people who have thought, okay, he's the guy, well, we'll find out tonight."
