Bon appetite, carnivores on the trail

Bon appetite, carnivores on the trail

Presidential candidates do not seem to be fussy eaters for the most part. Yet they have distinct dislikes, mostly from the veggie kingdom.
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DEMOCRATS:

New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton: "I like nearly everything. "I don't like, you know, things that are still alive."

Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards: "I can't stand mushrooms. I don't want them on anything that I eat. And I have had to eat them because you get food served and it's sitting there and you're starving, so you eat."

Illinois Sen. Barack Obama: "Beets, and I always avoid eating them."

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson: Mushrooms, specifically. "I'm not a big vegetable eater." Recalling the first President Bush's distaste for broccoli, he said: "I sympathize with that fully."

REPUBLICANS:

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani: Liver.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee: "Carrots. I just don't like carrots. I banned them from the governor's mansion when I was governor of Arkansas because I could."

Arizona Sen. John McCain: "I eat almost everything. Sometimes I don't do too well with vegetables."

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney: "Eggplant, in any shape or form. And I've always been able to avoid it."

Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson: "Not much. I've tried to do better about that. I jokingly say that we kind of have a diet around our house that if it tastes good, you don't eat it. I haven't quite got there yet. There's not much that I turn down. That's a good thing on the campaign trail because you get quite a variety."

Obviously we need to no everytrhing that ISN'T important about a candidate to vote for them, who cares about the real issues?

Huckabee rises to 2nd in GOP race

Huckabee rises to 2nd in GOP race

WASHINGTON - Mike Huckabee has vaulted from nowhere into second place in the Republican presidential race, riding a burst of support from evangelicals, Southerners and conservatives, a nationwide poll showed Friday.


The surge by the former Arkansas governor has come largely at the expense of Fred Thompson, according to the national survey by The Associated Press and Ipsos. Thompson has dropped after failing to galvanize the party's right-wing core as much as some had expected.

Rudy Giuliani remains the front-runner, yet while his support long has been steady it shows signs of fraying. Huckabee's growing strength in the South has come as the former New York mayor's support there has dropped, the poll found.

This tells me that maybe GOP voters aren't as religiously biased as they used to be