Ok, the Huckster has a point…the top tier get the most time. Who ever said life was fair. Now, despite Mike’s whining, he did pretty well. I’ve always said he’s running for VP, what a perfect job for him. He can do nothing, which he is eminently qualified to do, he doesn’t have to deal with pesky legislation, he can take credit for things he didn’t do and he can take trips with his own plane. If by some miracle the GOP wins in ‘08 and the Huckster is the number 2 man, the nation could take solace in the fact that Huckabee ain’t no Cheney. He’d bring back the Office of the Vice President to what it was pre-Cheney, not a bunker to run his own agenda, but the fluff and buff that was traditional of the office.

Huckabee frustrated by debate format

Mike Huckabee strongly defended his stands on evolution and abortion Tuesday in his effort to emerge from a crowded Republican presidential field, then went on the offensive against what he said was an unfair debate format.

Huckabee charged he did not get the questions nor the airtime he wanted in a debate televised nationally by CNN.

He bashed the network and debate moderator Wolf Blitzer for focusing on the three Republican frontrunners instead of him and six other hopefuls in the event at Saint Anselm College near Manchester, N.H.

“It’s the responsibility, I believe, of the moderator to make sure the format gives the viewer … a chance tonight to see which one of us on stage, of the 10 candidates, was really capable of talking to the issues that they’re talking about at the dinner table at home tonight,” Huckabee said after the debate.

And despite what experts saw as a solid showing by the Arkansan, Huckabee said the network faltered.