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Huckabee Battered With Attack Ads, While Romney Climbs Back in Polls
The Wall Street Journal ^ | December 30, 2007 | Laura Meckler

Posted on 12/30/2007 4:09:34 PM PST by Romneyfor President2008

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Mike Huckabee's surge in Iowa showed signs of retreat as three new polls found rival Mitt Romney climbing back. The former Arkansas governor again found himself playing defense Sunday, and he responded by saying Mr. Romney cannot be trusted to tell the American people the truth should he be elected.

Mr. Huckabee, who has been pummeled with Romney attack ads and literature mailed across Iowa, considered responding with an attack ad of his own.

(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ads; mitt; mittromney; romney
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Mitt has the momentum!
1 posted on 12/30/2007 4:09:36 PM PST by Romneyfor President2008
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To: Romneyfor President2008

Yup. He keeps running, evading his words and actions of the past at every opportunity.

I agree with you.


2 posted on 12/30/2007 4:12:13 PM PST by ConservativeMind
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To: Romneyfor President2008

Who is calling who a liar?


3 posted on 12/30/2007 4:17:17 PM PST by Hattie
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To: Romneyfor President2008

I think the media gleefully pumped up Huckabee because they thought he was a sure loser who could be skewered later, leaving the Republicans hanging out to dry.

Then when he did even better than they expected, they started to get scared. Suppose this religious fanatic actually won! Horrors!

I’d say that’s why Huck is starting to recede. That and his own big mouth.


4 posted on 12/30/2007 4:19:00 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Romneyfor President2008
Mike Huckabee's surge in Iowa showed signs of retreat...

There's but one person to blame for this...

Huckabee.

5 posted on 12/30/2007 4:24:25 PM PST by Rudder
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To: Romneyfor President2008

How long before the Huckster claims he’s been “Swift Boated”?


6 posted on 12/30/2007 4:24:45 PM PST by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: Cicero
I think the media gleefully pumped up Huckabee because they thought he was a sure loser who could be skewered later, leaving the Republicans hanging out to dry.

Just like they pump McCain every election cycle. Were he ever to receive the nomination, the media would savage him mercilessly.

7 posted on 12/30/2007 4:30:50 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Elections have consequences.)
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To: All

This is the trial by fire that we use to find the candidate best able to organize the battle. Engage or die.


8 posted on 12/30/2007 4:32:20 PM PST by Owen
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

I agree. That is exactly what is happening.


9 posted on 12/30/2007 4:34:37 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: Romneyfor President2008

Absolutely fantastic! Mitt will win the nomination!


10 posted on 12/30/2007 4:37:52 PM PST by Krankor (kROGER)
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Will he AGAIN be marching with Martin Luther King Jr. before the Iowa Caucus?


11 posted on 12/30/2007 4:39:00 PM PST by trumandogz (Hunter Thompson 2008)
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To: Romneyfor President2008

Huck may not be the ideal candidate. But he is sure better than Flip Romney.


12 posted on 12/30/2007 4:45:00 PM PST by nckerr ("A freeper since the time Clinton (the liar) was the President.")
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Will he AGAIN be marching with Martin Luther King Jr. before the Iowa Caucus?

It's amazing to me how little controversy was generated by Romney's lie about his dad and MLK. I won't claim that I was leaning towards him, I've been a Fred supporter since March, but I was neutral on Romney until that beauty.

In my book it's no less a lie than Huckabee's claiming he had a theology degree. Resume enhancement I think we call it.

13 posted on 12/30/2007 4:51:11 PM PST by BfloGuy (It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect . . .)
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To: DJ Taylor
How long before the Huckster claims he’s been “Swift Boated”?

Definition of Swiftboating: "Exposing someone's past with the truth".

Go Mitt!
14 posted on 12/30/2007 4:55:09 PM PST by Signalman
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To: Romneyfor President2008
ALL of the attack ads in Iowa (against Huckabee) are from ... Romney.

ALL of the attack ads in NH (against McCain) are from ... Romney.

ALL of the dirty tricks, including push polls,
fake troopers and badges have been from ... Romney.

Meanwhile, Romney's BELIEVERS appear to have two states, either swooning
over their candidate OR cowardly hiding Romney's attacks, misstatements,
and dirty tricks behind his RELIGION. Amazing.


15 posted on 12/30/2007 4:57:27 PM PST by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: BfloGuy

It wasn’t a lie and many wittnesses have since come forth to prove this....yet the media won’t admit it.


16 posted on 12/30/2007 5:01:59 PM PST by TheLion
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To: Romneyfor President2008

More good news!


17 posted on 12/30/2007 5:04:38 PM PST by TheLion
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To: Romneyfor President2008
Hillary: All the mean boys are picking on me.

Huckabee: Mean Mitt is picking on me.

Whoever wins the nomination better show they can take the heat, because they are going to get it big time from the enemedia in the homestretch.

18 posted on 12/30/2007 5:05:22 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: TheLion
Romney said he was not literal because both the Press and historians debunked Romney.

Have any of you or Romney produced a single picture to prove those people wrong.

Against you is 1:

"On Sunday, June 23, 1963, 125,000 people marched down Detroit's Woodward Avenue
to the Civic Center, in what was described at the time as the largest civil-rights demonstration in the nation's history.
According to the next day's account in the Holland Evening Sentinel,
the crowd at the Center "lustily booed," when representatives of Governor George W. Romney
read a proclamation declaring "Freedom March Day in Michigan." But Martin Luther King Jr. didn't fault Romney for his absence,
which the governor ascribed to his policy against public appearances on the Sabbath.
"At a news conference following the march . .
[King] refused to criticize Romney for not attending the demonstration," the Sentinel reported."

Against you is 2:

Susan Englander, assistant editor of the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University, who is editing the King papers from that era,
says Myth Romney was untruthful, when she told the Globe yesterday:
"I researched this question, and indeed it is untrue that George Romney marched with [Dr.] King."

Against you is 3:

"King never marched in Grosse Pointe, according to the Grosse Pointe Historical Society,
and had not appeared in the town at all at the time the Broder book was published.
“I’m quite certain of that
,” says Suzy Berschback, curator of the Grosse Pointe Historical Society"

How could these educated women and Dr. King all be lying?

So how about a single picture to prove those people wrong?

19 posted on 12/30/2007 5:06:13 PM PST by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: DJ Taylor

-—How long before the Huckster claims he’s been “Swift Boated”?-—

There was a Newsweak article last night saying just that. The libs just love this “conservative” Baptist Huckster. Curious.


20 posted on 12/30/2007 5:07:30 PM PST by claudiustg (You know it. I know it. I'm optimittstic!)
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