Posted on 01/01/2008 1:23:43 PM PST by TBP
Mike Huckabee, vowing to commit to positive campaigning, announced he would not air a new attack ad slamming Mitt Romney for going negative but then promptly showed the TV ad anyway at a press conference - prompting loud cackles from the press corps.
Huckabee said he had a change of heart just before the press conference and shortly before the ads first scheduled airing at noon today in Iowa.
This morning I ordered our staff to pull the ad. I told them I do not want it to be run, the former Arkansas governor said. If it is run at all it will only be until the stations can get it off the air and we are now committed from now to the rest of the caucus that we will run only the ads that talk about why I should be president and not why Mitt Romney should not.
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So the Republican party should start demonizing business and promoting class warfare a la the Breck Girl? Oppression? How are you being "oppressed" by legally operated businesses? What are you, a Marxist?
No, I am an American worker, who is one of millions whose standard of living is being squeezed in the name of "employee productivity" and "free (globalist) trade."
I believe you have heard some of the news about production being abandoned in America, for Mexican, Korean, and especially Chinese slave labor. Also, the illegals (and legals) that are brought in, while lowering employee plans for the American workers (who are kept and not cast aside).
It's not just George Soros that is willing for the big American Bring Down to continue. High percentage stockholders all around the country and the world are very pleased with it, too.
Power corrupts. And profitable economic power corrupts exorbitantly.
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