Or maybe make that a smart alexandra.

Steve Clemons furnishes us with an e-mail exchange between Arkansas First Lady Janet Huckabee, wife of the former governor and now presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, and an Arkansan.

The constituent objected to Mrs. Huckabee volunteering at a polling place on an election day, and Mrs. Huckabee herself wrote back:

I received your e-mail concerning my working at the polls. I am sure that you understand that if I can pay taxes and serve on a jury, I certainly can work on the polls. I , by the way, volunteer at several charities and the Waffle House has already said they would give me a job.

I guess context is necessary here - Mrs. Huckabee had volunteer-waitressed at a Waffle House for a charity event.   The constituent proposed she go take on some part-time work at the Waffle House if she needed to fill up her time.

But we’re beginning to see a trend here, what with Huckabee cracking wise throughout recent debates, like his suggestions that we send Hillary to Mars and arguing that Jesus was too smart to run for office. I guess you can say it runs through the length of the Huckabee household.

And that could be one smart-lipped White House some day.  Of course, it also sounds like the kind of sassy southern family that might appear in all manner of sitcoms, and it makes you wonder if Huckabee’s campaign and eventual narrative is also going to sound almost like something that’s right of Hollywood.

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New numbers from the American Research Group show great promise for the potential presidential campaign of Thompson — no, no, not that Thompson — Fred Thompson.

In what appears to be a desperate attempt to find the ‘next Reagan,’ rank-and-file Republicans may have taken that straight to heart. Thompson, a former senator from Tennessee and “Arthur Branch” on television’s Law & Order, earned shockingly high numbers for a non-candidate. (Doesn’t hurt to blur the line with his character on Law & Order and then position yourself as the tough district attorney-type, does it?)

Fred Thompson goes on television and says he is thinking about running for president and — out of the gate — his numbers shoot up to 12 percent in Iowa and 10 percent in New Hampshire. It took former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney weeks to crack double digits in most polls.

Thompson passed Romney and non-candidate former Speaker Newt Gingrich in the crucial Iowa, and nipping at Newt’s rear in New Hampshire.

Rudy Giuliani, former New York City mayor, holds a ten point lead in Texas, but ties Arizona Senator John McCain in Iowa and trails McCain in New Hampshire by four points.

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