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Mike Huckabee had another authentic moment in Iowa today on a hunting trip with his bird-dog, his campaign manager, and  a pool of hungry journalists. Per First Read:

"You prove that you can shoot, and that if somebody really messes with you with negative campaign ads, they just need to be prepared."

"We will name the pheasants [after] other candidates. It gives us a real incentive."

"These three birds all said that they would not vote for me on caucus night," he joked when he returned with three bird carcasses. "The one that flew away," he added, "well, we saw a Huckabee button on his rear end, so we knew not to take him."

Gun in hand, the governor also had harsh words for the aggressive tactics of his main rival in Iowa. Negative campaigning, he said, "really lacks credibility. Because it's in an opponent's desperate interest to try to throw last-minute things at you." 

"The magician plays the game of keeping your focus over here on this hand while he's doing something over here with the other," he continued, waving his gloved right hand and brandishing the gun in his left. "I think people understand that sleight of hand is not why you elect a president."

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