Huckabee Talks Paladino

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Carl Paladino's rant with a New York Post reporter earlier this week is getting lots of reaction from various political camps.

Former Arkansas Governor and Presidential candidate  Mike Huckabee chimed in Friday, while at Davis College in Johnson City.

Huckabee had come to talk about scholarships for religious education, but when reporters were allowed access to him, the questions turned to politics.

We asked him about that instantly famous confrontation bewtween, GOP candidate for Governor, Carl Palidino and, New York Post reporter, Fred Dicker, which began when Dicker demanded proof of Paladino's allegations of  Andrew Cuomo's extra-marital affairs.

As a come-back,  Paladino scolded Dicker for sending a  photographer to get shots of the ten year old girl that Paladino fathered with a mistress.

While the exchange might seem distasteful to some, Huckabee doesn’t blame Paladino,  and doesn’t think most Americans will either.
 
"He's kind of growing on me. I think this is a unique time in American political history where people are just looking for authenticity and candor. They don’t care if the person is a little rough around the edges. What they are tired of is the career politicians who is so carefully crafted and so very thoughtfully molded into this image," said Michael Huckabee, former Arkansas Governor.

Huckabee says the outburst will be seen as refreshing for voters who are tired of arragant politicians:

"Some members of Congress tend to forget that they are not the bosses they are the servants, and the bosses are the people. And when the people consistently say don't spend money, don't bail out these car companies and insurance companies, don't pass a health care system that will ultimately raise our cost and they do it anyway. I think they have the absolute moral obligation, the voters do, to fire these folks," said Huckabee.

Huckabee thinks Paladino is taping into voter dissatisfaction with the Washington establishment-- and says that's why Tea Party candidates are drawing so much attention and support.

"And they might just bring with them a whole new perspective that career politicians have failed  to remember that is that we were never designed to have the government run by professional politicians but by the citizens," said Huckabee.

Huckabee says he has not made up his mind if he he will run  in the 2012 election, but plans to decide some time next year.

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