Dubya likes Mike

To be candid, I've never gotten comfortable with the sports betting or prognosticating phrase, "who do you like in (blank)?" It's a phrase too ripe for confusion, but it appears that President Bush "likes" former Governor Mike Huckabee in that sense. (Plus, I thought it'd be really clever to allude to the "Be like Mike" ads and the "I like Ike" ads . . . get it?)

Here's the meat from the Chicago Tribune: (He wants to be seen as a heavyweight)

"George W. Bush doesn't have to be concerned with any more elections that carry his name on the ballot. But that doesn't mean he isn't intensely interested in the 2008 presidential race, a contest that is almost certain to be seen as a final referendum on his two terms in the White House.

So Bush, we are told, has taken to assessing the field of Republican candidates. He has been known to tell contemporaries that Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the leading GOP candidate of the moment, might not make it. But instead of going down the list of others, such as former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani or former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the president reportedly says it might pay to watch a candidate who is receiving essentially zero attention: Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas."

I hate to potentially sour people like Sharon Cobb with this tidbit, but for those of us who don't think Dubya is the Fount of Evil in the modern world, his view of the 2008 GOP field is intriguing.


Aside, I REALLY enjoy those "Be like Mike" ads. Go watch 'em. Here and Here