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Huckabee Shows Us the Dirty Tactics He “won’t Use”…. Yeah, Right

Just about everyone has weighed in on this one. AP’s Ron Fournier, for one: [1]

DES MOINES, Iowa – Mike Huckabee may have finally gone too far.

After running an unconventional, surprisingly strong and sometimes strange race to the top tier of the Republican presidential campaign, the former Arkansas governor topped himself Monday with a campaign stunt that smacked of hypocrisy.

He called a news conference to unveil a negative ad that he had just withdrawn from Iowa television stations because, he told a room full of journalists recording the ad, he had a sudden aversion to negative politics. Quite a convenient epiphany.

“If people want to be cynical about it,” Huckabee said, “they can be cynical about it.”

If he loses Iowa‘s caucuses, New Year’s Eve will forever mark the day Huckabee blew it — the day a crowd stopped laughing with the witty Republican and laughed at him.

Well, look;

While I doubt Huckabee will really pay a price for this one… (Of itself anyway, though it will add to his resume)… it is in the end Huckabee, himself who is being cynical… I daresay it’s the kind of cynicism that has hardly been seen before in any candidacy, with the possible exception [2] of Hillary Clinton. I am reminded of a classic Daffy Duck cartoon called “To Duck or not to Duck”:

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You mean you’re not going to use any of these dirty tactics, Huck?