Tells me that Fred is more afraid of the Huckster being POTUS.
I think Huckabee could be more destructive to the GOP than McCain because he is a bigger liar.
I don't like McCain; I can't stand Huckabee!
Look, people, there is no avoiding this.
He never attacks McCain’s positions with the same level of vitriol and intensity reserved for others. This goes to the very heart of principle.
If he knew McCain was running and did not feel that his positions and McCain’s positions diffred enough to justify stark, intense contrast at a high level of rhetorical venom, then why run? There would already have been someone in the race with his positions, so why run?
Running when your positions are already represented is an exercise in personal ego and a profound lack of principle. There is no evidence he has anything other than the most mild of differences with McCain about even amnesty. The most heart rate elevating thing ever heard from him about amnesty is “John is probably wrong about that.” He doesn’t ridicule the McCain attack on Cornyn. He doesn’t celebrate the conservative base clotheslining McCain’s sprint for amnesty. He does nothing more confrontational than “My good friend John is wrong about that.”
McCain’s internals must show Huckabee closing. He probably made a call to Thompson and unleashed him as attack dog du jour.