On a more practical note, if the key for Palin is to get the Huckabee voters, making them hate you by attacking his core beliefs this way is going to do the opposite of what you want.
Palin needs to win over voters, not have her “supporters” chase them all away.
“On a more practical note, if the key for Palin is to get the Huckabee voters, making them hate you by attacking his core beliefs this way is going to do the opposite of what you want.”
Is there such a thing as a “Huckabee voter”? What exactly is that? And why is a Romneybot like you interested in Huckabee? Divide and conquer, maybe?
What you call “Huckabee voters” are prolife voters who felt in 2008 they had nowhere else to go. They couldn’t go to Mittens or Rudy who were proabortion or to McCain who was untrustworthy and supported stem cell research. (Hunter and Brownback never took off) And it is fair to comment when a candidate criticizes over and over again embryonic stem cell research and then takes money from one of the biggest purveyors of this research.
In 2008, Huckabee was the only prolifer and religious conservative in the race. It will not be so in 2012. Palin will suck the oxygen out of the balloon, since she appeals to both those constituencuies, in addition to economic conservatives (like Club For Growth) who detest Huck. The “Huckabee voters”, as you call them are religious conservatives, who are pro-life. They are not wedded to Huckabee. Pointing out his lack of principle on the prolife issue, in hte context of these fess, is just fair comment. It is the only issue on which he has a claim to principled conservatism(given his big government nannystatism and his execrable pardon record) The $35,000 “consulting fee” from Novo Nordisk raises the question whether the principle might be flexible.
After all, even Mittens sold the Novo Nordisk stock when he was caught with his hand in that cookie jar. Huck kept the loot. that may offend someone, but the truth hurst and I retract nothing.