What happens in Vegas doesn't always stay in Vegas - especially if you're the wife of a presidential candidate. Just ask Janet Huckabee, who attended a middleweight prize fight this past weekend in Las Vegas - where she stayed at the Hooters Casino Hotel.
That eye-opening combination - a title bout in Sin City, which celebrates gambling, drinking and all things wild, along with a hospitality chain favoring buxom waitresses in low-cut garb - could potentially shock the armies of evangelical conservative Christians who have made her husband, the former governor of Arkansas, the only remaining GOP opponent to party front-runner John McCain.
But Janet Huckabee, whose husband is also a former Baptist minister, said in a telephone interview Wednesday that her recent brief excursion to root for boxer Jermain Taylor, a longtime friend and fellow Arkansan - and her stay at a hotel that she said wasn't exactly her first choice - was supposed to be a rare respite from the often-brutal presidential campaign trail." --- The San Francisco Chronicle, Feb 21, 2008
Oh, my.
3 comments:
Ouch - probably not her best move.
Vegas could become Huck's "western White House"!
Yep - won't be popular among his core constituents for sure -- though she goes on to say that she had a reservation at the MGM, canceled it because she didn't think that she could make it, then suddenly she could but had no room - friends invited her to stay with them at their hotel room, etc etc...
I don't think it is that big of a deal. It is the same thing as going to a bar to hear a friend play music for their first time. The key is not to become part of the world while still interacting with it.
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