Huckabee getting reputation for flip-flopping, insincerity

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Huckabee getting reputation for flip-flopping, insincerity
by John Aravosis (DC) · 1/06/2008 01:40:00 PM ET · Link
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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.

_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.

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.