Former overweight Governor and now champion of exercise Mike Huckabee is waiting until this summer to decide if he is running for the Presidency again in 2012. Why, because he doesn't want to get "stale." Isn't the definition of "stale" seeking the Presidency for the second time with no new ideas?:
FOX HOST MARTHA MACCALLUM: How and when will you make your decision?
HUCKABEE: Much later. Probably in the summer. I'll look at all the options...
MACCALLUM: [interrupting] ... why's everybody waiting so long?
HUCKABEE: For me, having done this four years ago, I realize that very few people can sustain the burn rate of a campaign if it's going to have to last 18 months.
You can't raise and go through that much money and the infrastructure necessary to carry the campaign.
The second reason is that, frankly, it's a reason of some illness.
I think people get sick of us if we're out there for too long a period of time, and by the time it starts to matter -- when you're getting closer to the caucuses and the primaries -- you've been so, just, essentially, exposed in a campaign mode that there's nothing new.
You're the stale loaf of bread on the shelf, and it's very difficult to make your message fresh.
H/T - Wonkette, The Hill
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