Ace notes that Huckabee doesn’t merely flip flop, but he wildly changes course when he thinks that’s what will help him get the nomination. It suggests not merely someone who is a typical politician, but someone completely devoid of any principles or thoughts on all but a few political matters:
What?
Again, I don’t think he means it. I don’t think he’s thought about this long enough to mean it.
But just like with his tax-hiking ways, he seeks to immunize himself by being more Catholic than the pope on taxes and promising to abolish the IRS; stung by criticisms that he’s soft on illegals, he plagiarizes most of Mark Krikorian’s plan for immigration.
And now, confronted with his supporters engaging in illegal and sleazy push-polling, he suddenly endorses making all negative ads illegal.
Whenever something unsavory or undesirable about him pops up, he lurches suddenly and wildly in the exact opposite direction, sometimes with comical results (he still wants to reform the INS, which doesn’t actually exist anymore) and sometimes frightening ones (pass a law making it illegal to criticize politicians without their express written consent).
This guy is seriously not ready for prime time.
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