Huckabee Attack Ad Runs Anyway

As someone who works for a TV station, I can assure you that schedules can be changed until literally the last minute. To say that this ad ran because it was scheduled more than a week ago and those schedules were somehow set in stone is laughable. The ad ran because Huckabee wanted it to run.

If Huckabee wins the Republican nomination, I do not believe he will beat Clinton, Obama, or Edwards. I do not believe he is the right candidate to represent the republican party. I am not sure who I will vote for at this point, but from what I have seen of Huckabee, I am confident that he will not get my vote. It concerns me the the religious right in my party are gearing for Huckabee just because Romney is a mormon for example. Many so call Christians will not vote for Romney because they have the false perception from the false teachings of their ministers and pastors that Romney or his church does not believe in Christ. Yet the "religious right" of this country who is suppose to believe in Chris,t are acting less like "Christ" in their words and actions than non-christians. You say to yourself that you are Christlike and that if you lived during the time of the bible that you would follow the prophets and Christ, but right now your actions, words, and thought are like the Pharisees of old. The way your acting toward Romney because he does not belong to your sect is like the ones who gather around the temple and cried "crucify him". Are you really being taught the true doctrine of Christ from your ministers and pastors? Matthew 7:15.

I am very conservative, but if Huckabee wins the primary, I don't know how I will vote. I am not impressed with him. Not to mention...his name. I can't imagine calling the president of the United States, President Huckabee. He sounds like a hick.

One hopes that, absent a Huckabee campaign effort, the media will counter Romney attacks by pointing out how, at Bain Capital, Mr. Romney used offshore corporations to avoid U.S. taxation, and he fee-milked acquired businesses before firing workers and taking them into bankruptcy ( http://snipr.com/romneyoffshore ), to amass his great $250,000,000 wealth.

So, when you compare how Mr. Huckabee's visionary FairTax advocacy ( http://snipr.com/nextrung ) compares to Romney's interest in the current tax system, it's pretty easy to see who will lead us out of tax slavery ( http://snipr.com/taxburden ) - $265 billion annual tax code compliance costs representing 5 billion wasted hours, annually.

Also as a resident of Arkansas I am really impressed with Mike Huckabee's governorship. After Frank White,Bill Clinton and Jim Guy Tucker he was a refreshing change. The readers who commented here as being from Arkansas and the problems they stated they are encountering are not the Arkansas I live in and have lived in all my life. As for the state employees I couldn't say but the highways in Arkansas are some of the most scenic and well maintained highways in the United States today, maybe these people haven't left the state lately.As for the schools this just simply isn't true, not in our schools anyway I went to school in Wynne and my children and grandchildren go and went to school in Searcy and I would put our schools up against any in the country. The quality of your communities schools is only as good as the effort the community itself is willing to put into it. Some of these issues are issues which aren't directly under the control of the governor so maybe a little self examination would go along way for these people. Mike Huckabee was as honest and dedicated a public official as this state has had in a very long time and I am quite sure that when the mud slinging starts, and it will, that he will be the cleanest man left standing. Character is still king and the rest of the candidates may not know it yet but Mike Huckabee is a man of character and he will be missed by many in Arkansas.

I beleive that Mr. huckabee said in his press conference regarding the ad that it was possible that it may air a few times even though he officially pulled it because it had been scheduled to run already. The point is weather it airs after he pulled it.

I commend news week for not reprinting the claims in the ad becasue they should be exposed to no wider an audience than those who saw it because it was in the schedule for their local station. To reprint the claims in order to analyze him would violate his request.

Mr. huckabee is not a coniver. He made a mistake, owned up to it, and took the action necessary to correct it. He also warned people that it might air because of scheduling at TV stations. He is not slippery, but he is human and will make mistakes.

This battle in the GOP is getting ugly because there is a battle between Main Street and Wall street brewing within the party. Mr. huckabee discusses issues that all families discuss. The Wall Street base is not willing to go quietly into the night and let less business oriented interests take over the party.

What a sleazeball! The more someone wraps themselves in religion, the less you can trust them.
Organized religion, and their brainwashed followers, is the cause of 90% of the grief in the world today

Made a mistake and took action to correct it? How about apologizing to Mr. Romney for calling him dishonest while slathering his own kettle black? At least Romney's advertisements addressed the issues and never the person themselves. It still amazes me that ads that simply state one candidate's record or position compared to another's are instantly seen as attack ads.

I didn't have any issues with Mr. Huckabee at the beginning of this election. However, the more I find out about his past record and the more I see of his whisper campaign - the more I strongly dislike him. Him calling Romney dishonest just drips of irony.

Good luck to us all.

To MomOf4Boys: We did try the Arkansas-governor for President experiment once before and wound up with one of the greatest economic expansions in History as well as a budget surplus. Were you upset that everyone else had some money in their pocket? Want to hog it all for yourself as the typical Republican does?

This is classic Ed Rollins tactics... create an ad, hold a press conference to claim they had decided to not "run" it while showing the ad to the press anyway. Oh, and let it play ONCE in three markets so the "press" can pick it up and run it ad naseum on the cable TV talking head "news" shows under the guise of discussing the ad. FOX NEWS is legendary for running "pulled" ads dozens of times, giving the ads far more expossure than the campaign could ever afford.

Sounds like you are nitpicking to me. It also sounds like Huckabee had the ad pulled but the three news stations did not get the word in time. This is why it only ran one time in each market. Is it possible that he is running a clean campaign and you do not know what else to report?

Sounds like you are nitpicking to me. It also sounds like Huckabee had the ad pulled but the three news stations did not get the word in time. This is why it only ran one time in each market. Is it possible that he is running a clean campaign and you do not know what else to report?

Brooks Jackson, are you being ethical as a reporter? The title article, Huckabee Attack Ad Runs Anyway gives the deliberate false conception that Huckabee ran the ad sometime after he spoke of it and showed it to reporters. He did not "run the ad" to reporters. He showed it to them. How unethically you use words. Showing it to reporters is not something you have to pay money to do. Running, or airing an ad on TV cost money. That is a different matter. Does Brooks, in twisting words in this way, agree with Clinton's defining what is is? Even if the reporters SHOWED a copy of the ad on a newscast, it could not be difined as Huckabee RUNNING the ad on TV. You use of words makes evident your personal bias. (You state that he "ran (aired?) the ad to reporters anyway." Have you ever used the word that way in your life?



He did not ever run the ad after he spoke of it, and you probably know that as fact.



If you claim to be a person of honesty and intergrity, the why would you not report what Judy Kratochvil stated rather than being purposely misleading?



Can yo not own up to the fact that a republican governor in a democratic state who lasted 10 years and was nominated as one of the best Governors in America deserves at least a little more prasie and honesty?



Why don't you show yourself a bit more equitable and fair ?



JB