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Fred was on his theme of contrasting records and said Huckabee could not take criticism. This is one major sign of an egotist. Aside: As a student of human nature, I think we are seeing the real Huck here. That is no substance discussed just personal attacks.

Huck's campaign manager is an attack dog who worked with a populist before (Perot). So they are out dredging up nonsense about Fred. The campaign is not responding to the real deficits that Fred brought up about Huckabee's SUPPOSED conservative record.

Huck has had three days Fred said to respond to issues Fred raised. Instead, Huck resorted to potty humor and personal attacks (Fred being a foreign agent as a lobbyist-- not.)

Fred also said Cato institute rated Huck a D and an F on tax and fiscal policies as a governor. Cato is a conservative think-tank and very well thought of.

For the McCain/Thompson conspiracy theorists: When Wolf asked for a contrast with McCain, Fred said they differed on illegals and on tax policy.

From Mark Levin today on NR.

John McCain is running an ad here in Detroit boasting of his small-government credentials. McCain scoffs at “a bridge to nowhere and $74 million for peanut storage.”

But McCain’s rhetoric masks Big Government instincts that may not play well if Mitt Romney continues to hammer McCain on economic themes. Long a national anomaly with its one-state recession, Michigan is suddenly on the cutting edge of economic concerns that have now grown national.

McCain’s solution? Massive, expensive regulation of a key economic sector, the auto industry, via fuel economy mandates that amount to a $85 billion tax increase on the domestic industry. Similar, so-called CAFÉ laws, have cost the industry thousands of jobs when they were first imposed during the last oil panic in the 1970s.

Coupled with his tin ear for economic stimulus (he opposed the crucial Bush tax cuts post 9/11) and McCain – for all his populist appeal here – appears more war leader than economy leader.