by Mark Silva
Here comes one of those ironic moments in the campaigns of great contestants when one candidate struggling to overcome his image as a flip-flopper accuses his most threatening rival of flip-flopping. The accusation came more as a campaign reference really.
Mitt Romney's campaign for president pounced today on an article in the Los Angeles Times pointing out that Mike Huckabee had opposed the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba as bad for American business when he was governor of Arkansas. But now that he is seeking the GOP's presidential nomination -- and campaigning in places such as South Florida, where the Cuban-American community holds allegiance to the trade embargo as a political litmus test -- Huckabee has become a staunch supporter of the embargo against Fidel Castro's government.
Huckabee even provided the Times with a delightfully candid explanation about his conversion on the road to Little Havana: "'Rather than seeing it as some huge change, I would call it, rather, the simple reality that I'm running for president of the United States, not for reelection as governor of Arkansas,'' Huckabee said at a Cuban restaurant in Miami. "'I've got to look at this as an issue that touches the whole country.'"
That's not all that different, perhaps, from the personal evolution which Romney has undergone since his days as governor of Massachusetts, when he supported abortion rights for women, to his current campaign stance as a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination and a staunch opponent of abortion. He's been criticized for that switch.
"I was wrong. All right,'' Romney said about his earlier stance on abortion, during a debate of the Republican candidates on Nov. 28. "I was effectively pro-choice when I ran for office... If people in this country are looking for someone who's never made a mistake on a policy issue and is not willing to admit they're wrong, why then, they're going to have to find somebody else, because on abortion I was wrong.''
Yet the Romney campaign eagerly distributed an email account of the Times' report on Huckabee's "flip-flop" today.
Mitt Romney, meet Mike Huckabee. Both wrong once? Both right now? Right for the race they're in, perhaps. And that's a tight one in Iowa, scene of the opening GOP caucuses.




Comments
Retards both. Do you really want guys like this leading the free world???
Posted by: Reagan Droid | December 11, 2007 4:27 PM
Huckabee's rise is attributed to desperation, not aspiration. The GOP electorate was desperate to head off Rude E Guiliani (America's Playa')
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so they pinned their hopes on idiot Granpa Fred Thompson and he fell flat. They tried to prop up Romney until they realized that he might make it and that would be weird, or something; and this scared them so now they are turning to the Huckster who is pulling this baggage with him:
Top Ten Moments in Mike Huckabee's Extremism:
10) Huckabee Calls for the Quarantine of AIDS Victims...in freaking 1992!!
9) Huckabee Enables the Politically-Motivated Parole of Repeat Rapist/Murderer
8) Huckabee Offers Faith-Based Pardons
7)Huckabee Undermines the Teaching of Evolution
6) Huckabee Speaks for God
5) Huckabee Speaks to God
4) Huckabee Claims God Behind His Rise in the Polls
3) Huckabee Proclaims His Theology Degree a Unique Qualification to Fight Terrorism
2) Huckabee Flip-Flops, Calls for Federal Abortion Ban
1) Huckabee Calls for Consumption Tax, Abolition of the IRS
Keep in mind that Ron Paul, who is nowhere in the polls, is pulling in bigtime money, much of it from current and ex-military members.
They are all OVER the map; and it means they don't want ANY of these losers.
All they know is they don't want to lose because the Republic's believe that the American President's job should be held by a Republican...forever....because it say's so in the bible...the part of the bible that no one else on earth has ever seen.
Posted by: John E | December 11, 2007 5:05 PM
"I was wrong. All right,'' Romney said about his earlier stance on abortion, during a debate of the Republican candidates on Nov. 28. "I was effectively pro-choice when I ran for office... If people in this country are looking for someone who's never made a mistake on a policy issue and is not willing to admit they're wrong, why then, they're going to have to find somebody else, because on abortion I was wrong.''
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Let's see, vp bu$h ran on his "I never flip flop like Kerry" pllatform, and every republitard speaker spent a good deal of time at the republitard convention leading the delegates in African call and response style cheer leading getting the crowd to happily chant flip flop like a bunch of brainwashed scientologists.
Now that Romney admints he was wrong and has changed his opinion (obviously to get elected), I look forward to the condemnation of republipukes across the nation for this latest flip flop, flip flop, flip flop, flip flop.
But I am sure pillow, terrieee and juanniee will find a way to blame this all on the Clintons.
Posted by: rncbs | December 11, 2007 6:57 PM
Some nice cutting and pasting there, Johnnnny E. Where did you get this latest bit of Loony Left Hysteria?
Posted by: John D | December 11, 2007 8:14 PM
Huckabee seems to be a good man and a good Christian--so was Jimmy Carter. I don't mean that as an insult to President Carter. But I know very few people who'd claim Carter was an effective president. As the adrenaline settles, voters will take a second look at this likeable fellow from Hope. I'd love to have both he and President Carter over for Sunday dinner, but I want neither running my country.
Posted by: William Argyle | December 11, 2007 8:18 PM
Mitt Romney is a man of values and a proven leader.
He might have changed his position; yes, but has a proven record on those positions.
Mitt Romney is a proven Conservative and he has my support.
Posted by: Yasser Sanchez | December 11, 2007 9:31 PM
Admitting you are wrong and correcting your mistakes are both laudable. However, Huckabee won't admit he was wrong about Cuba. He thinks something can be good for Arkansans but bad for Americans. This is the same logic Giuliani used when he sued to overturn the line-item-veto. He did something that he thought was good for New Yorkers but bad for Americans. Neither men are patriots are they?
Posted by: Lori | December 11, 2007 9:55 PM
But I know very few people who'd claim Carter was an effective president.
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Well, Carter did sign an amendment into the Constitution allowing home brewing of beer. For that, as a home brewer, I think he was the best President in the last three decades. Think it's wimpy? Meet me for pints at noon!
Posted by: RNCBS | December 11, 2007 11:12 PM
Reagan Droid:
Unlike your namesake, you are a very poor communicator. If you want to convince someone to vote against Romney and Huckabee, you had better add some reasoning to your point. Merely calling someone a name isn't an argument, and it is an insult to the listener whom you have found unworthy to share of your thought process. Moreover, people are already sick of name calling in politics. So, please try harder next time.
Posted by: John W. | December 11, 2007 11:39 PM
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Some nice cutting and pasting there, Johnnnny E. Where did you get this latest bit of Loony Left Hysteria?
Posted by: John D | December 11, 2007 8:14 PM
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From the same place you got your information that Cuba is totally within the Gulf of Mexico and that John Edwards pays as much for his suits as Dubya does.
Posted by: BC | December 12, 2007 8:55 AM
Michael Huckabee once accepted $40,000 in contributions from the tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds to campaign against a national cigarette tax proposed by Hillary Clinton. But later, Mr. Huckabee ignored his sponsors and imposed his own tax on cigarettes.
During his years in the governor's mansion in Little Rock, Mr. Huckabee granted convicted criminals 1,033 pardons and commutations of sentence — including a pardon for a reckless driving charge by the Rolling Stone Keith Richard. The number amounts to about twice as many acts of amnesty as his three predecessors combined, among them President Clinton.
While governor, Mr. Huckabee was also the subject of 16 ethics complaints that forced him to pay $1,000 in fines for failing to report outside income and payments from his campaign fund, and he was investigated for flying Arkansas state airplanes when on personal and political business.
These facts, which have been an embarrassment to Mr. Huckabee — who is now the favorite to win the GOP stakes in Iowa and who in a new national CNN poll yesterday pulled alongside the Republican front-runner, Mayor Giuliani — are the latest to emerge as the former Arkansas governor's rivals crawl through the minutiae of Mr. Huckabee's past in the hopes of turning up damaging stories to stop him in his tracks.
More if you have the stomach for it.
Posted by: John | December 12, 2007 11:33 AM
"Unlike your namesake, you are a very poor communicator."
Posted by: John W. | December 11, 2007 11:39 PM
Ouch, that hurt.
Posted by: Reagan Droid | December 12, 2007 3:28 PM