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Huckabee ‘doesn’t have to like’ Toomey to vote for him

Mike Huckabee doesn’t hold a grudge.

Back in 2007, Republican Pat Toomey, then head of the conservative Club for Growth, wrote an op-ed saying that the former Arkansas governor shouldn’t be the GOP’s nominee for vice president, let alone president.

Now that Toomey has become the party’s presumptive nominee for Senate, Huckabee, while acknowledging that he’s “just not engaged” in the race, says he’d still happily support Toomey.

“It’s not that big a deal,” Huckabee, in an interview with The Morning Call, said of Toomey’s past criticisms. “If I’m going to pick out people that I’m really going to burn my shirt for, would I be doing something for someone who spent $2 million to tell everybody I was a liberal—which I’m not?

Asked if he would vote for Toomey in a general election, Huckabee said: “Yes, I would, in a heartbeat. I don’t have to like the guy to vote for him. If it came down to Pat Toomey sitting in the Senate seat or Arlen Specter, I know that Pat Toomey would vote more like I would vote if I was sitting there.”

November 3, 2009 at 6:16 pm

--pa2010.com Staff

Tags: Mike Huckabee, Pat Toomey

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