AP did an entire story on Huckabee's increasing tendency to flip-flop. I was watching Stephanopoulos this morning, and he got Huckabee to flip flop on the surge (Huckabee wasn't for it, now says he was) and Terry Schiavo (Huckabee said the feds shouldn't have gotten involved, now he says they should have) as well. Here's what AP had to say:
Huckabee himself has struggled to keep up. Last month, he was unaware of a report the White House had released saying Iran had halted its nuclear weapons program, and he flubbed his response to the assassination of Pakistan's former prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, expressing apologies when he meant to say sympathies. He also warned that Pakistan is second only to Latin America in the number of immigrants in the U.S. illegally, which is not true.More after the jump...
_He decided not to air a commercial attacking Romney but played it for journalists, anyway.Even more interesting, Huckabee continues to stand by his previous statements, all the while iterating the new positions that totally contradict what he said previously. Stephanopoulos nailed him, bad - which was kind of a first for the Sunday shows. Actual reporting, actual news. I generally fast forward through the interviews with politicians because the hosts generally don't press their guests more than once when they lie, change their stories, etc. Today, Stephanopoulos just continued to nail these guys. It was good.
_He said he supports the Hollywood writers' strike but crossed the picket line to appear on the Jay Leno's "Tonight" show.
_He campaigned at a casino in Burlington, Iowa, despite his opposition to gambling.
