“When the heat is on, instead of immediately telling the whole truth and defusing the situation, Huckabee’s instinct is to obfuscate. How Clintonesque. Huckabee is the least media savvy campaigner of all the candidates of either party, and it will be his undoing.”
Hope so, as the Huckster is dangerous.
This is the same for any politician. Any campaign is premised on image, perception and manipulation. Thus, the first instinct is to maintain the fiction at all costs. Politics corrputs everything it touches. I have no doubt that Huckabee is a sincere Chrisian and was a good Pastor but entering the political arena is to embrace the world with both hands and the inevitable result is corruption. Starts with the small lies of convenience. When that's successful the lies become bigger, more often, without forethought. It becomes necessary to create more lies to account for the first lies. This is the way integrity goes, not with a bang but a whimper. Honestly, does Huck come off as a Pastor or a politician?