Huckabee to Pawlenty: Ixnay the advisers

Says Pawlenty was over-coached in debate

June 15, 2011 at 10:48PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Former Arkansas Gov.

(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Mike Huckabee watched Tim Pawlenty's disappointing debate performance Monday night and had some advice for the Minnesota Republican: Ixnay the advisers. "He's over-coached, over-consulted," the Fox News host said on Laura Ingraham's radio show . "Get rid of them." Huckabee is not the first to wonder how Pawlenty and/or his advisers could have been so unprepared to take a direct question on his "Obamneycare" quip linking Mitt Romney to President Obama's health care overhaul. To Huckabee, who is sitting out the 2012 presidential race, Pawlenty's seeming reluctance to repeat the term in front of Romney made it look like he had "run away from his own comments."

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