Romney Brings Out Another Attack Ad Against Huckabee In Iowa
Mitt Romney has a new negative ad against Mike Huckabee in Iowa, on the same day as he has a new ad against John McCain in New Hampshire. The substance of this ad is simple: Mike Huckabee is a big-spending, illegal immigrant-coddling, criminal-pardoning excuse for a candidate — and his foreign policy is "ludicrous" in the eyes of Condoleeza Rice, too.
Romney has been forced into the awkward position of fighting one particular candidate in Iowa while going against a completely different opponent in New Hampshire. With Huckabee currently ahead in one state and McCain catching up in the other, the next week week and a half isn't going to be pretty.
Comments (4)
yesterday gone wrote on December 28, 2007 2:29 PM:this is pretty funny:
Mike Huckabee last year accepted $52,000 in speaking fees from a bio-tech giant that wants to research human embryonic stem cells, a non-profit working to expand access to the morning after pill and a group pushing to study whether tightening gun control laws will reduce violence.
hucksterbee hit a trifecta.
Richard wrote on December 28, 2007 2:58 PM:Huckabees response to Romneys assaults have been: look where this is coming from. He uses Mitts already suspect, some say non-existent, credibility and flips (oops) it back to him. Maybe Huck is saying "he who is without sin...
E J. wrote on December 28, 2007 6:05 PM:When Romney goes down the tubes in Iowa there will be a debate on whether the reason was that if you flip you flop or the replay of the 2004 Democratic caucus results which proved those that throw mud lose ground.
Mad Jayhawk wrote on December 30, 2007 12:35 AM:Romney is forced to do what the media should be doing: exposing Huckabee for what he is. He is wasting valuable resources to do this in Iowa and in NH against McCain. We have seen nothing but a month's worth of Mr Nice Guy reporting on Huckabee. What is now coming out, thanks to Romney, is not new. Huckabee is not qualified to be President. He is highly qualified for being a punching bag for the Democratic candidate whoever that is going to be. That is why the DNC told everyone to lay off him.
Is it throwing mud when you point out truthful differences between you and opponent or truthful facts about an opponent? I do not think so. Notice that Huckabee attacks Romney rather than answer the substance of the ads. That says a lot. Huckabee's attacks on Romney, of course, get a lot of free media attention.
