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By: Gary Gross

Gary Gross — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:44:58 +0000

You have provided no conclusive proof that Huckabee is fighting a dirty campaign.

Silly me. Just because a couple are campaign insiders & just because that same couple are major contributors to the Huckabee campaign & paid for the sleazy push-polling doesn’t mean it isn’t purely coincidental, right???

By: Jason Steck

Jason Steck — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:03:35 +0000

Well, since his "let me show you the attack ad that I am too nice to show anyone" dirty trick in Iowa was in the form of a press conference, I think the "proof" is pretty good.

The proof of a "misinformation campaign" is………ZERO.

By: john

john — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:18:39 +0000

You have provided no conclusive proof that Huckabee is fighting a dirty campaign. Supposition is not proof. Huckabee has been the victim of a misinformation campaign.

By: Gary Gross

Gary Gross — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:46:56 +0000

Perhaps this post points out to the Huckapologists that Huckabee is sleazy. I should point to this post as proof that he's running a sleazy campaign, too.

By: C Stanley

C Stanley — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:58:56 +0000

No, I’m not saying that- I’m referring to what I think is to come. And in fact, I do think that mentality tends to push people like Common Sense Issues to do sleazy things- they think that if the candidate they prefer is going to run a clean campaign, that he’ll lose. So they feel they have to ‘help’.

By: Michael van der Galien

Michael van der Galien — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:52:39 +0000

Are you arguing that Huckabee is running such a sleazy campaign against his Republican rivals because Hillary Clinton is participating in the Democratic race?

By: C Stanley

C Stanley — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:47:29 +0000

Having said that though, this would be completely amateur hour compared to the way the Clintons campaign. Have you seen Ed Morrissey’s articles about the Jay Rockefeller memo from the time of Hillary’s health care task force, advising that they do character assassinations on those who might politically oppose their plans?

By: C Stanley

C Stanley — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:45:51 +0000

Everyone tries to out-Clinton the Clintons. It’s part of why a lot of us are unhappy that she’s in the campaign. No one is going to unilaterally disarm when they know the arsenal that they’re going to face.

By: Michael van der Galien

Michael van der Galien — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:38:48 +0000

1. Huckabee is running a sleazy campaign, and seems to have connections with a group doing push polling against his opponents including McCain.

Yup.

2. McCain’s campaign noted that people were telling them a nasty, false story they’d heard about him and they were concerned about where that was coming from.

Yup.

3. Then attacks started coming at McCain from this Viet Nam Vets group [and actually, the story says that the false rumor had come from their pamphlet, not from push polling, so this wasn’t separate from #2]
Then you go back to your main theme about the push polling and Huckabee secretly approving it.

Yep.

How could anyone not infer that you were making a connection between ALL of the negative campaigning against McCain with Huckabee’s camp doing this stuff?

I don’t know, I didn’t receive the same complain from anyone else. And… it is funny that these people attack mccain at the same moment that a pro-huckabee group does so as well, no?

I am calling it suspicious.

By the way with regards to the comment about Clintonesque campaigning: I think that Huckabee is out-clintonesquing the Clintons.

Perhaps there’s something in the water in Arkansas.