Comments on: Huckabee Pays Price For Yanking Attack Ad

Politico: Republican's Decision To Pull Anti-Romney Ad Could Hurt Cash-Strapped Campaign

[myidoncbs]

LiMBsY makes a good point-- that the Hucksterbee would have to pay a price for running the negative ad or for pulling it. (Though there would not have been any problem if he hadn''t first decided to go negative or if he had not shown the negative ad to the media after saying he wouldn''t run it. If he isn''t going to run the ad, why mention it at all?)

Then LiMBsY somehow manages to blame the whole thing on the media. That''s the wrong conclusion, LiMBsY! The media is just pointing out what everyone else is thinking: Hucksterbee is not the "paragon of virtue" that he pretends to be. This incident just makes that point extremely clear to everyone. You can''t blame the media for Hucksterbee''s failure.

[beckajw]

Don''t get the wrong idea, I''m not voting for Huckabee, I just thought your response deserved a response.

[liberalme]

Huckabee told the (Fox) reporter that he didn''''t distribute any of the DVDs with the ad on it. According to him, someone must have copied it there in the press room. Easy enough to do I suppose.

Duncan Hunter ''''08.
Posted by Hwy71So

Ok so Huckabee is deceitful and the people working on his campaign can''t be trusted either??
Wonder what Washington would be like if he got into office.

Wow, sounds like some of what we already have running the country!

[beckajw]

"How did he pull the ad? I can watch it on Youtube all I want."

You can watch anything on youtube. No one can pull stuff from youtube. Once it is there, it is there, unless the youtube site actually wants to remove it.

[hwy71so]

Huckabee told the (Fox) reporter that he didn''t distribute any of the DVDs with the ad on it. According to him, someone must have copied it there in the press room. Easy enough to do I suppose.

Duncan Hunter ''08.

[liberalme]

WOW, folks the media is completely ridiculous. First of all, things like ads, endorsements, what the media says, really don''''t matter as much as the media makes it so. The people know politics has issues, the people aren''''t stupid and blind (although some actually are), and get this: HE WOULD HAVE PAID A PRICE IF HE RELEASED THE AD AS WELL. So what the heck is the point here!? He said he wanted to run a positive campaign, so if he released the ad, he would have paid a price. YOU CAN''''T PLEASE THE MEDIA. HUCK 08!!


Posted by LiMBsY at 02:02 PM : Jan 02, 2008

Huckabee USED the media to expose the ad!! What don''t you get about that????

He has no principles, no conscience no integrity and at the same time, calls himself a precher--well I''m glad he''s not my preacher and certainly don''t want his deceit running this country---once is enough thank you!!

[fornicario]

How did he pull the ad? I can watch it on Youtube all I want. If he did not want the ad released, as he keeps professing, why did he allow the media to see it? It would have never seen the light of day if he had truly embraced what he said, and not showed it to the ever watchful eyes of the media.

[rowdytexan2]

Huckabee''s decision to pull the negative campaign ads may speak well for his character and conscience. However, it does not speak well for his judgement. If he was uncomfortable with it, he should''ve spoke up right at the inset and said, "That''s not what I''m about!" This alone disqualifies him. But also in addition to his proclaiming to be a Christian and not raising a hue and cry about the corruption and lies of the Neocon republican party, he was not even eligible for my vote from the beginning!

Neither Huckabee, nor Romney have the GUTS to stand up for their convictions! Either that, or they don''t have any!

[marcodele]

If Mike Huckabee was a man of principle, he wouldn''t have pulled a media stunt by calling the media and showing a negative attack ad that he was removing from the media. Very slick and nasty, this one.

If Mike Huckabee was a good Christian, he wouldn''t have to tell you what a good Christian he is.

The neocons are drooling over this incompetent fop because they know that "Guns and Jesus" are a political win win.

What a sad era we are entering when religious fundamentalists determine our leaders, just like in Iraq, Iran, Afganistan, Pakistan, and the rest of the blood soaked religious fundamentalist world.

[limbsy]

WOW, folks the media is completely ridiculous. First of all, things like ads, endorsements, what the media says, really don''t matter as much as the media makes it so. The people know politics has issues, the people aren''t stupid and blind (although some actually are), and get this: HE WOULD HAVE PAID A PRICE IF HE RELEASED THE AD AS WELL. So what the heck is the point here!? He said he wanted to run a positive campaign, so if he released the ad, he would have paid a price. YOU CAN''T PLEASE THE MEDIA. HUCK 08!!

[fornicario]

What principle? He''s got the free coverage, and he gets to pull a "I didn''t show it, the media did" while expecting the rest of us to suspend reason and not notice that the media would not have seen the ad if Huckabee didn''t show it to them! This is the same kind of stupid games that are played by people who want the results, they just don''t have the guts to sling the cr@p themselves.

[igniacad]

It is disappointing that so many have fallen for the Huckabee definiton of %u201Cnegative%u201D campaigning. The traditional definition of negative campaigning is personal attacks on one%u2019s character or false or misleading statements about the person or his beliefs. Neither of these apply to Mitt Romney%u2019s campaign ads which are better defined as contrast or issue-based ads. One must either question Mike Huckabee%u2019s campaign staff and their competency or the honesty and intergrity of Mike Huckabee himself. Unfortunately, as a one-time supporter of Mike Huckabee, I am beginning to conclude the latter.

[liberalme]

Sorry, but ole Huckster played the media like a violin--they did exactly what he intended---they showed the ad!
He said he wasn''''t going to show the ad and he and the media did!! FOR FREE!!! lol What''''s not to believe??
Another politician that "preaches" one thing and does another!
The candidate will what the candidate is comfortable with, and the voter will do what the voter has to do!

[im4honesty]

This guy is as phony as ''W''

He made sure the ad is all over utube and is getting a lot of TV coverage.

What a lying piece of ship this guy is!

[newideas1]

Huckabee is a man of principle, and it will do a lot to renew my faith in voters when they turn out to support him in Iowa.

[heartlandjim]

I respect Mike Huckabee for pulling the add. He did the right thing.

[apolloknowsa]

Huck just jumped the shark

Pulling this type of stunt proves that all of his other ''accidental'' side comments that he later claims that he didn''t mean (including all of the anti-Catholic and anti-Mormon and anti-any other sect but mine comments) were truly just ''my opponent no longer beats his wife'' statements.

He knew what he was doing and even though he claims to have taken the moral high ground, he is on judicial watch''s top ten most corrupt politicians list for a reason.

This is so like OJ Simpson''s book "if I did it" where he denies the killings, but then describes how he would have done it if he had. Huck says I will not attack Mitt personally, but if I would, this is what I would say: and then proceeds to personally attack him. Yes, there are some policy issues at the beginning, but the ad ends with the Huckster on camera, personally attacking Mitt--not policy--ad hominen attack, just like he said that he would not do.

Huck can not handle the scrutiny of his liberal record of pardons for convicted murderers and the taking of "gifts" in exchange for positions on state committees.

Huck is not presidential, pure and simple.
Huck is not qualified to be the CEO of the USA. He could not even graduate from seminary (although he led us all to believe that he had!)

Huck is a very funny guy and belongs on the comedy circuit and would make a great court jester, but never commander-in-chief.