Bolton Denies Huckabee Claim

As if Huckabee needed another ouch right now given the way the press seems to be turning. But this one should sting, particularly as so many on the Right hold Bolton in high regard.

In recent days, Mike Huckabee has tried to answer long-standing questions about who is on his foreign policy team. On Friday morning, he listed former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton as someone with whom he either has “spoken or will continue to speak.”

At a Thursday evening press conference, Huckabee said, "I've corresponded with John Bolton, who's agreed to work with us on developing foreign policy.”

Bolton, however, has a different view. “I’d be happy to speak with Huckabee, but I haven’t spoken with him yet,” said Bolton, now a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington.

“I’m not an official or unofficial adviser to anyone,” said Bolton, who mentioned he’d had conversations with other Republican candidates but refused to name any names.

Asked to explain Bolton’s comments, Huckabee aides said the former Arkansas governor had e-mailed with Bolton. Bolton did not immediately respond to a request to address Huckabee’s e-mailing claims.

Comments

[LC Baum]

Dan,
Huckabee is striking me as someone who seems to take that one step too far. It would've been fine to say that he hoped Bolton would talk to/advise him, but he went right for the overreach and projected. Why people do this when the other party can easily "non-corroborate" evades me. Huck is not the only one. We need a president who is comfortable and confident in his own skin.
LC

[seekeronos]

"--- We need a president who is comfortable and confident in his own skin. ---"

Fred D. Thompson is that man.

[TheSpartan]

Might be nice if it looked like that skin wasn't cancer ridden though wouldn't it?

[Fred Beloit]

I'm believe you will get some form of cancer, Spart, if you live long enough.

[TheSpartan]

There's enough of a family history that you're probably right (and family history also shows I'll live long enough unless that was a thinly veiled threat Fred), so be it, I can only do what I can do. But then, I'm not asking anyone to elect my crypt keeper looking hide to the highest office in the land.

[Fred Beloit]

"...

[Fred Beloit]

"...unless that was a thinly veiled threat Fred)..."

Sorry, old chap, I was so unnerved by your thinly-veiled accusation that I was threatening you that I got discombubulated. No threat, just actuarial matter.

[Fred Beloit]

By the way, many thanks for this terrific news:

"I'm not asking anyone to elect my crypt keeper looking hide to the highest office in the land."

[TheSpartan]

Oddly I'm less liberal on many issues than you might think.

[seekeronos]

Funny guy, that Spartan. But if you think that Fred is a "crypt keeper" (keeper of secrets? just a guy who looks old) and that this somehow effects his ability to be an excellent POTUS, you have another think coming.

Or are you voting for the Breck Girl/Silky Pony or the Oprahbama? (Hillary must not count for much, by your calculus, since she looks like she has kept a few crypts in her career as well).

Because voting for the prettiest candidate does not guarantee that he has a brain in his head.

[Fred Beloit]

Spart: "Oddly I'm less liberal on many issues than you might think."

Why keep this such a secret?

[TheSpartan]

Why keep this such a secret?

Not a secret, no one has caught my eye on the right issue yet...I'm actually more conservative than many dems on immigration. I know we build a chunk of our economy on it, but at the same time I also see the dangers in such open borders, though the northern border is probably more dangerous than the southern because of their very lax immigration policy. I'm also not liberal on gun ownership issues.

"Because voting for the prettiest candidate does not guarantee that he has a brain in his head."

Very true...but neither party has been above the notion of finding good looking candidates...when was the last really unattractive president? Or for that matter bald? Sure Ford, but he wasn't elected.