Huckabee Flip Flops on Going Negative

Mike Huckabee explains why he will not air negative ads aimed at rival candidates.

Huck the Yuck.
What is this? He did just jump the shark.

Huckabilly says: I won't attack him personally, but if I were to attack him personally, this is how I would do it.

That sounds a lot like OJ Simpson's book "If I did it" where he says I didn't kill them, but if I did, this is how I would have done it.

I thought the good people of Iowa were smarter than this. What a used car salesman! Is he going to have inflatable gorillas at his next campaign stop?

Huck personally attacked Mitt's character. Mitt pointed out political decisions Huck made.
Huck made an actual, ad hominen attack ad. Huck is the one going negative.

Pointing out factual actions taken by an opponent is fair, calling someone names is childish, and is an attack.

We know who the grown-up is in this race!

Huck is not presidential material.

I smell a rat, along with Huckabee's comments for today regarding McCain's heroism:…………..THERE WAS ALSO a weird display of clumsy Machiavellianism Sunday morning. On ABC, McCain claimed to be profoundly disturbed by Romney's attacks on Huckabee, who he called "a good man." At the same time on Fox, Huckabee was claiming to be profoundly disturbed by Romney's attacks on McCain, who Huckabee likewise described as "a good man."

One hopes that the Huckabee campaign will counter Romney attacks by pointing out how, at Bain Capital, Mr. Romney used offshore corporations to avoid U.S. taxation, and fee-milked acquired businesses before firing workers and taking them into bankruptcy to amass his great $250,000,000 wealth. (I have heard nothing about this until I discovered it quite by accident this evening.)

So, when you compare how Mr. Huckabee's visionary FairTax advocacy (compares to Romney's interest in the current tax system, it's pretty easy to see who will lead us out of tax slavery ) - $265 billion annual tax code compliance costs representing 5 billion wasted hours, annually.

It is a sad day when the comments do not even discuss the mis-truths stated by Romney. Regardless of your political leanings and/or support, we all need to hold our officials to standard of honesty, else we are part of the problem.

Romney's a flipper - Huckabee is right on the moral issues, but needs to think them through more thoroughly so as to be able to persurade others to join with him. On fiscal issues, Huckabee's too liberal - I'm voting for Alan Keyes in 2008 - Keyes is the only Complete Conservative!

And the winner is Melissa, who seems to be the only one who figured this whole scam out. Three facts: (1) Huckabee doesn't have the money to buy airtime even if he wants to. This is why Huckabee will never win the election, and in fact, will just go down hill from Iowa. He can't buy advertising in New Hampshire, Michigan, South Carolina or Florida either. Even if he could raise the money quickly enough, then (2) Huckabee can't find any airtime to buy because Romney, Hillary, Obama and Edwards bought it all 3 weeks ago when Huckabee was a nobody. And (3) he has to go negative because he has no response to Romney's comparison ads. So what do you do in the face of (1), (2) and (3)==>exactly what the guy did, which is to try to trick the media into showing it for you and trying to make it seem like you are the good guy for not running the first truly attack ad of the season.

Also, the only way to argue that cross in that ad wasn't planned is to argue incompetence by the cameraman. I've worked with pro cameramen. They spend hours on lighting and framing a shot like that. I'll bet you the first time that cameraman looked at that shot, he said "Hey, that frame looks like a cross in the background. You want me to bring it up or fade it out?". That was no accident.

Huckabee gives snake oil salesman a bad name.

How's that overpriced book selling, Huck? I saw your "pitch" on Copeland a couple of weeks ago. I get the impression you want to run the country like a Church, will your country allow athiests?

Huckabee might pull-punches, but I don't have to

-Paul

Thank you, Mike Huckabee for deciding not to go negative. It shows you have class. Class is a hard thing to find these days in politics. Tempting, wasn't it. But in the end you made the right decision. You will be our next President.

Huckabee has a very poor record of governing a State.There's no way he can be trusted with the nations economy,immigration and justice issues.

I sure hope the Republicans nominate someone this time who is mentally stable.

I love it.... I'm not going to distribute this negative ad because the people of Iowa deserve better but I'll let you, the media covering me, watch it cause you won't believe I actually made it unless I do show you. Is this guy serious?

Support the real Mike for 2008.
Mike Bloomberg for President 2008

I am so tired of Huckabee saying I'm more honest, more rightous than everyone out there, so vote for me. He seems like a great guy and I would like to have him as a neighbor. I believe both these guys are honest man and honestly doing all they can to win. We need a real executive, a great communicator and Mitt Romney who can beat Hillary.

I'm so proud of Mike for taking the high road. Let the results of Jan. 3 speak for themselves. I'm guessing Iowans can tell the difference between real folk and a dude from Massachusettes.

Until today, I thought the Huckster might be at least worth considering. Now I'm convinced he is not only devious, he's stupid. Okay, I think he's got the acumen for an evangelist preacher, but PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES? Give me a break!

hey huckabee! IF YOU ARE WHAT YOU SAY YOU ARE, THEN YOU WON'T HAVE TO SAY IT! you're so annoying

In spite of everything that has been hammered at him, Huckabee still is the strongest candidate that is running for office. I don't see anything that would want to make me support either McCain, Romney, or Giuliani. Huckabee has great ideas for this nation, and they deserve our support. I commend him for trying to have a sense of decency in his campaign whether he wins or loses. Let's put our votes for Huckabee on election day.

The thing is, all these GOP slams are correct, on BOTH sides of the GOP isle. There is not one single worthy GOP candidate in the lot. I would give Ron Paul kudos but at this point in time I simply DO NOT trust any GOP.