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Huckabee on Palin: ‘She Didn’t Have to Get Bloodied’

The Page by Mark Halperin found this 11/19/2008 on blogs.wsj.com

Laura Meckler reports from Washington on politics. Former Gov. Mike Huckabee , a once and possibly future presidential candidate, admires his fellow social conservative, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin . Really. “What John McCain did for her was to give her the capacity to sort of leapfrog over the process and get right to the center stage,” he said at a breakfast with reporters this morning. “By naming her (his running mate) he was able to put her in a position where she did have to go ...