In developing news, the McCain camp is now attacking Mitt Romney for launching the first negative ad of the season against Mike Huckabee. Per race42008:
Governor Romney has flip-flopped on several major issues that voters care about. It's particularly amazing that Governor Romney would attack anyone on immigration when he's on his third position. John McCain has run an honorable campaign that all Iowans can be proud of. I call on Governor Romney to drop his plans for this negative attack and follow John McCain's lead. Candidates need to raise the level of the debate, not lower it.
The Corner also has some interesting insight into McCain's personal impressions of Huckabee:
When I was riding around in Iowa with McCain in late October, he was pretty effusive about Huckabee. "I just like the guy," McCain told me. "Huckabee and I have stood next to each other in several debates, and we've had several conversations. In one of the earliest debates, there was the issue of evolution versus intelligent design, and Huckabee described it so well that I found myself saying, when they asked me, that this guy just said it far more eloquently than I can. That kinda had something to do with our relationship."
» Huckabee Comes to McCain's Aid from ElephantBiz
Mike Huckabee had nothing but kind words for John McCain in the wake of the McCain-Romney ad exchange. McCain earlier had come to Huckabee's aid when he was first attacked by Romney. Per First Read: "I'm kind of expecting to... [Read More]
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