Mike Huckabee Thinks Iowans Are Stupid
Posted on December 31, 2007
Update: Video of the press release via Iowapolitics.com
This is what in politics is called utter B.S.
That Huckabee still showed the spot to dozens of reporters jammed into a press conference will ensure the most skeptical, bordering on cynical, coverage on every national news broadcast tonight and in all the major national papers tomorrow. After it became clear that he was not going to air the ad on Iowa television, but would still preview it here, the press corps offered a collective laugh in plain recognition of what Huckabee was up to.
But what the snickering big feet here say tonight or write about tomorrow is not as important as how it will be described by the local journalists who were here.
How do the local TV affilates here describe the move? What will the AP story that dozens of papers here pick up tomorrow read like? And what sort of presentation and play will The Des Moines Register give to what can only be described as a singular moment in an already topsy-turvy campaign?
More than being a preacher and pol, Huck is a showman first. And today he was in his element on center stage. He’s risen to this point almost entirely by virture of his unparalled communications skills. Those were put to the test today under a withering line of questions.
Mr. Huckabee, with his wife standing silently off to the side, said that the “conventional wisdom†was that when you are attacked, you attack back. But, he said, an hour before the press conference, which was scheduled for noon, he just decided not to go that route.
“It’s not worth it,†he said.
Polls regularly show that Iowa voters do not reward candidates who go negative, and perhaps Mr. Huckabee saw some of those polls. “The people of Iowa deserve better,†he said.
Asked if he wasn’t being hypocritical by showing the ad to a roomful of cameras that are likely to record it and show it — for free — around the country, Mr. Huckabee said he was showing it to reporters only because reporters were so cynical that if he didn’t show it, they would not believe that he really had made such an ad.
This holier than thou crap better blow up in this weasle’s face! Putting together a negative ad and then pretending to back out of it while practically handing it over to the press to put out for free? He must really think that the people of Iowa are stupid! Will they prove him right? I don’t think so! I agree with Joe Klein.
I don’t think so. Not with all those monster oppo “Enough is Enough” charts surrounding Huckabee with facts and figures about Romney’s alleged depravities–on taxes, abortion, immigration, guns and judicial appointments. (Huckabee’s partially-birthed ad slags Romney for, among other things, offering a $50 co-pay for abortions in Massachusetts.)
That sound you hear rumbling out of Des Moines appears to be a monumental implosion.
I’d be cautious. Huckabee’s supporters are not like the mainstream press.
Here is the ad if you want to see it.
Huckabee is so full of crap I can smell him from here. His strategy was obvious and simple: Announce you’re pulling the ad at the last minute to show how nice and moral a person you are, then show it to a crowd of cameras and reporters so the content gets seen and talked about anyway. He may not know about the NIE, AIDS, immigration, foreign policy, or anything actually, ya know, important, but he definitely has the “slimy†part down pat.
Huckabee is playing games with the media in an effort to get more free media time for his negative attacks on Romney, while pretending to not be engaging in them.
It’s the sort of gambit that will instantly trigger cynicism among the political class, especially given the confusion that surrounded the move.
Yeah, right Mike. I’m sure they’ve never heard of “cynical manipulation” either. If they weren’t cynical before you began speaking they’re morons if they’re not cynical now.
But — what the heck — Huckabee decides to play the ad he won’t broadcast for the media at the press conference, presumably hoping that gullible news executives will run the ad that Huckabee is too much of a saint for not airing — for free.
Hey Mike, you are the stupid one for thinking everyone and their mother wouldn’t see through this transparent, hypocritical, deceptive crap. Prepare for backlash.
Press reaction: CBS:
We’ve all seen some very cheap stunts over the years, but they’re not usually this cheap and not this transparent. Reporters covering the campaign aren’t idiots, and Huckabee just insulted their intelligence.
Hat tip: Hot Air
Extra: Michelle Malkin reports that Huckabee’s Iowa campaign office has been overtaken by anti-war moonbat cockroaches.
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What utter BS - just another 2-bit snakeoil salesman like ‘B J’ Clinton to come out of Arkansas . . . soooooooeeeeeeee PIG!
Look at how many Iowans still support Huckabee. I think there are a number that ARE pretty stupid.
American Pundit wrote:
Huckabee is so full of crap I can smell him from here. His strategy was obvious and simple: Announce you’re pulling the ad at the last minute to show how nice and moral a person you are, then show it to a crowd of cameras and reporters so the content gets seen and talked about anyway. He may not know about the NIE, AIDS, immigration, foreign policy, or anything actually, ya know, important, but he definitely has the “slimy†part down pat.
Yeah, that covers it.
OK I am stupid, but I’m not STOOPID. A couple months back, before I realized he was a nasty little lying creep, I sent Huckleberry 20 bucks. Guess what just arrived in my Email? The negative ad he isn’t going to show to anybody. This guy makes Bill Clinton looks like a bastion of truthfulness.
“Huckabee’s Iowa campaign office has been overtaken by anti-war moonbat cockroaches.”
Hey there!
Actually that CBS link you gave was by one of my fellow moonbat cockroaches, Steve Benen. Great guy.