Huckabee Has Strong Words for the "Washington Elites"
December 20, 2007
Mike Huckabee is not a Washington insider. In fact, he is so outside the beltway that he believes Washington and New York insiders don't get him at all. He's got some pretty strong words for these folks. Watch my interview with him on his bus above. The transcription is below.
Huckabee: There is a level of elitism that has existed, the chattering class if you will who lives in that corridor between Washington and Wall Street and they sort of live in their protected world, and frankly for a number of years many of them thought of people like me - whether it was because we were evangelicals or because maybe we were out from the middle of America. They were polite to us. They were more than happy for us to come to the rallies and stand in lines for hours to cheer on the candidates, appreciated us putting up the yard signs, going out and putting out the cards on peoples doors and making phone calls to the phone banks and - really appreciated all of our votes. But when they got elected, behind closed doors, they would laugh at us and speak with scorn and derision that we were, as one article I think once said "the easily led." So there's been almost this sort of, it's okay if you guys get a seat on the bus, but don't ever think about telling us where the bus is going to go.
Brody: That's a lot to overcome.
Huckabee: But you know what's happening, my campaign is now, a person has bubbled up - not from the chattering class. I've never been their favorite. I wasn't their pick. I wasn't the one they early on said "Well he has the money, and he has the name and the ancestry." What we have in this country is this growing sense of tension where there are people would just as soon, guys like me, just continue to support candidates and make sure they get elected. But we don't really want to have to hear from guys like me after elections - and now that we're actually, potentially going to be the nominee - it's making some folks uncomfortable 'cause they don't know what we're going to do.
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