At a Hudson Union Society Q & A on November 2, Mike Huckabee is asked about the Iowa caucuses and his feud with Mitt Romney.
(Note: Huck also appeared at the Hudson Union Society in 2008, but this is from his appearance earlier this month).
"No matter how hard he [Romney] tried, people ultimately weren't buying the product, and I'm sure that part of it wasn't something he enjoyed reading about [in Huckabee's book Do The Right Thing], considering how much money they spent and what they got from it.
But let me add one thing. Because I think a lot of people think this is a personal thing with Mitt Romney. We're not close, and I'm probably not on his Christmas card list or anything, but the reality is my problem with Mitt Romney was Mitt Romney just needed to be Mitt Romney. If he'd have been who he was, rather than trying to out-be who everybody else was, I think he could have possibly got the nomination.
.... But for example, if the issue was immigration, he wanted to go further than Tom Tamcredo. If it was pro-life, then he was going to out-be me. If it was security, he was going to show that Rudy Giuliani wasn't nearly as strong on that as he was, and if it was military, he was going to be stronger than John McCain. And the point is: no one believed that."
[Hat tip: Huck's Army]
