It's rare to see a candidate be as clumsily hypocritical as Mike Huckabee was yesterday. At a press conference, he complained bitterly about attack ads from the Romney campaign, and said that his campaign had prepared countering attack ads, but wasn't going to run them, because that would be wrong.
Then he proceeded to show his attack ad to the journalists, thereby ensuring that it would be seen online, talked about on the news, and spread far and wide free of charge.
WASHINGTON—Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, asks in an upcoming article, "Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?" The article, to be published in Sunday's New York Times Magazine, says Huckabee asked the question after saying he believes Mormonism is a religion but doesn't know much about it.
On that one, not only did Huckabee attack, he attacked Romney's religion, which makes it a personal attack.
This delegate situation in WV is just dishonest. How can you defend that? You denigrate Reagan's name by doing so.
“This delegate situation in WV is just dishonest. How can you defend that? You denigrate Reagan’s name by doing so.”
Dishonest? It’s called politics. The WV Republican Party has a right to run the caucuses the way they want to run them, without outside interference. Reagan would be all for that, and you know it. Reagan tried cutting deals to win the nomination in 76, does that make him dishonest too?
Look, I think Romney’s a nice and decent guy. I have nothing against him at all. I think he would be a very weak candidate however. He is proving that despite the money he is spending he’s not getting the necessary support and votes he needs to win.
You and I are agreeing.
Free Republic has entered the twilight zone.