Mrs. Huckabee in Las Vegas: attends boxing match, stays at Hooters

[Enrique]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/21/MND9V5PR8.DTL

What happens in Vegas doesn't always stay in Vegas - especially if you're the wife of a presidential candidate. Just ask Janet Huckabee, who attended a middleweight prize fight this past weekend in Las Vegas - where she stayed at the Hooters Casino Hotel.

That eye-opening combination - a title bout in Sin City, which celebrates gambling, drinking and all things wild, along with a hospitality chain favoring buxom waitresses in low-cut garb - could potentially shock the armies of evangelical conservative Christians who have made her husband, the former governor of Arkansas, the only remaining GOP opponent to party front-runner John McCain.

But Janet Huckabee, whose husband is also a former Baptist minister, said in a telephone interview Wednesday that her recent brief excursion to root for boxer Jermain Taylor, a longtime friend and fellow Arkansan - and her stay at a hotel that she said wasn't exactly her first choice - was supposed to be a rare respite from the often-brutal presidential campaign trail.

"It's a grueling schedule. ... I had been in Wisconsin and flew to Michigan, and Friday and Saturday I spoke 14 times before the fight," said Janet Huckabee, who called a Chronicle reporter while traveling with her husband in Dallas in response to questions about the trip. "There's little time for anything other than campaigning."

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[soothsayer]

1. Good for her! This makes me like her. You go, Janet!

[Dhalgren]

2. Pullin' for the home-boy to kick some ass. Nothing wrong with that!

[acmavm]

3. I don't care what hotel anyone stays in. I mean I might draw the

line at 'Hookers Be Us Motel and Restaurant', but this is just so blah. She just might be a human being unlike that phony mutant to which she's married.

[Iris]

4. oh, please. This is the perefect example of the smoke they blow up the asses of "evangelical

christian conservatives" while happily going on about their own business. Normally I could give a shit less where someone stays in Las Vegas or wherever, but when you married to a presidential candidate who is positioning himself as the "moral" choice, well, then, it matters a lot.

[acmavm]

5. Oh please, we don't own this woman. And I'll use the same damn excuse

all you Barrie/Hils fans always use. "She isn't running for president, he/she is".

[Iris]

6. I haven't used that excuse once for either of those candidates.

I'm an Edwards-oprhan.

These people LOVE Huckabee and would NEVER vote for Hillary because she put up with a husband who got a bj yet I shouldn't get a chuckle from their fellow's wife staying at a Hooters Hotel?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcXjeOLOX6o

[acmavm]

7. Well, I am an Edwards 'orphan' as well (good way to put it. I hate the two

we're left with).

Anyway, maybe she figures she can do what she damn well pleases with her life. I don't recall her calling for an amendment to the Consitution requiring the US to be labeled a 'Christian' nation. Just that nutbag she's married to.

[Iris]

8. point well taken