John Bolton backhands Mike Huckabee

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Mike Huckabee has some trouble on the foreign-policy front. He doesn't know where Pakistan is in relation to Afghanistan. He hadn't heard of the NIE on Iran days after it was the topic of every conversation in Washington. And it seems as though he doesn't even know who his foreign-policy advisers are.

Last month, Mike Huckabee cited John Bolton as an adviser to his campaign, telling an audience that Bolton had "agreed to work with us on developing foreign policy." Bolton, however, was none too pleased at the insinuation, telling the Politico, "I haven't spoken with him yet.

And despite the fact that Huckabee came back and told reporters that he had indeed "e-mailed" with Bolton and that The Mustache had agreed to "be part of a group," it still doesn't sound like Bolton is on board with the Huck. In a New York Times piece today on where the candidates are turning for advice on Washington's think-tank row, Bolton, who is now at the American Enterprise Institute, plays the cool kid:

The only advice I have provided [to Huckabee] is 'call my secretary,'" Mr. Bolton said in a brief telephone interview.