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Mike Huckabee Advisor Chip Saltsman Moves to be Freshman Congressman’s Chief of Staff
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and Chip Saltsman
Looks to me that Mike Huckabee will NOT be running for President in 2012.Mike Huckabee and his top advisers insist that he’s thinking seriously about running for president, but he’s doing little to put together the sort of organization needed to mount a campaign. The latest evidence: Chip Saltsman, his campaign manager in 2008 and one of his closest confidantes, has accepted a job as Chief of Staff for freshman Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.).
In an interview, Saltsman said his taking the job should not be read as an indication about Huckabee’s intentions.
“I have a Notre Dame clause in my contract,” he quipped. “So I can leave if a presidential comes a calling.”
That’s to say that if a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity came along – in football it would be coaching the Fighting Irish, in politics it’s running a White House campaign — he’d be able to take his leave.
I don’t buy this explanation.
Chip Saltsman needs a job and is taking it since Mike Huckabee will likely keep his Fox News gig and not run for the Presidency. Huckabee can read the Tea Leaves and understands he could not beat Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin in a three way race – regardless of his 20 plus per cent in recent polls.
More on breaking polls and Sarah Palin moves in Iowa later…….
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Chip Saltsman Withdraws from RNC Chairman Race
Barack the Magic Negro, a 2007 parody song aired by conservative talk show host Rush LimbaughChip Saltsman has withdrawn as a candidate for Republican National Committee Chairman.
Chip Saltsman, whose bid for RNC Chairman was derailed and defined by distributing (and defending) the “Barack the Magic Negro” song, has dropped out.
“While my travels make me confident in our party’s future, I wanted you to be first to know that I have decided to withdraw my candidacy to become your next chairman,” he wrote supporters.
After distributing that Christmas CD with “Barack The Magic Negro” on it, he never really had a chance.
What poor judgment.
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Day By Day by Chris Muir December 30, 2008 – Dittoheads
Day By Day by Chris MuirWith the Flap about Rush’s Barack the Magic Negro, it is apparent that Limbaugh may be the LEFT’S new Bush for 2009.But, Obama will have to prove that he is more than a Dittohead for Reid and Pelosi. Will it happen? Will Barack be independent of the Democrat machine?
At his own peril……
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Chip Saltsman Commits a BONER with Barack The Magic Negro
Barack the Magic Negro, a 2007 parody song aired by conservative talk show host Rush LimbaughDoes the Republican National Committee Chairmanship race bring out the worst in the GOP?
Chip Saltsman, a candidate for chairman of the Republican National Committee, sent committee members this month a holiday music CD that included “Barack the Magic Negro,” a parody song first aired in 2007 by talk show host Rush Limbaugh.
Created by conservative satirist Paul Shanklin, the song puts new lyrics to the tune of “Puff the Magic Dragon,” and it is performed as if black activist Al Sharpton were singing it. Limbaugh played it after the Los Angeles Times ran an opinion piece with the same title.
“A guy from the LA paper said it made guilty whites feel good, they’ll vote for him and not for me cuz he’s not from the hood,” the song goes. “Oh, Barack the magic negro lives in DC, the LA Times they called him that because he’s black but not authentically.”
The CD accompanied holiday greetings from Saltsman, a Tennessee resident who managed former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee’s campaign for president. Saltsman announced his bid to lead the Republican Party this month.
Saltsman should be embarassed and quit the race. Chip is NOT Rush Limbaugh.
Now, the parody is just tired, trite and mean-spirited.
Bye, Bye Chip.