Today, Mike Huckabee's continual pre-occupation with personal finances continued.
"I need to make sure I'm ready to give up my job to declare my candidacy.
The day I say, 'I'm running,' that's the day I don't have an income."
Over the past few years, the financial cost of running (both in terms of absolute and opportunity cost) has played a large role in Huckabee's public musings on a run.
A good, recent example comes from Karen Tumulty:
When Huckabee and his wife, Janet, picked out the lot for the house they are building on a Florida beach, "We just looked at each other and started laughing. We thought, can you believe we can do this?" he said.
"Our first apartment was $40 a month. Our closet in this house will probably be as large as that tiny little apartment."
And the closet in that house will probably be bigger (and nicer) than a Super 8 in Ames, Iowa.
