East TN Conservative

“[The Huckabee campaign] is part of my resume but it doesn’t define me politically,” Saltsman explained. “I’m not sure if you look at my history that you’d think I was a Huckabee guy. You could just as easily say I’m a Bob Corker guy, a Lamar Alexander guy or a Frist guy.”

Saltsman certainly made no apologies for his association with Huckabee and spoke with pride of his “13 months” on the campaign but he did make sure to put a bit of distance between himself and the Huckabee message. Saltsman made it plain that he was a straight politics guy in his role as campaign manager — a hired hand — not the idea man.

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Corker, Lamar, and the Huck.......... Naaaa gonna pass on this endorsement. These are the people that hurt our party. They cloud the vision of principals we hold on to. I don't want a "politics guy" I want core principals, all the candidates he has helped do not share the same ones as I do. I usually support the local guy, not this time.

Dont forget this one

Huckabee backs up his claim to be a “paradoxical Republican.” While he is decidedly not a fiscal conservative and makes statements to distance himself from conservatives in his party, his national campaign manager John "Chip" Saltsman wrote to the American Spectator insisting that, “Without doubt, Mike Huckabee is a fiscal conservative who cut taxes almost 100 times in the state of Arkansas and returned almost $400 million to Arkansas taxpayers, including the first broad-based tax cut in the history of the state.” He goes on to say that, “A fair appraisal of Governor Huckabee's record reveals that he is an authentic, consistent conservative whose goal is to reduce both taxes and spending when he is President.”

If all I wanted is a for hire guy then get the guy that ran Obama's campaign. I want someone that knows the core principals and will use that to take us into the future.