Looks like Mike's trying to flip-flop change his Huckastructionist Christian leader image overnight:
It worked in Iowa, where evangelical Christians have been prime players in Republican politics for three decades.
But it won't wash in New Hampshire. So what's a smooth-talkin', oily, tell-the-folks-what-they-want-to-hear reverend to do?
But now the campaign moves to New Hampshire, a state where the religious right has never enjoyed a political foothold. New Hampshire Republicans are anti-tax and anti-government crusaders, but they have never been Christian crusaders.
So the Huckabee campaign is retooling itself fast.
Quick! Hide the bibles! Strike the crosses! And for Chrissake goodness sake, stop singing them hymns!
Suddenly, the "Christian leader" is just a "leader."
Huckabee arrived in New Hampshire Friday morning with new literature that drops the religious references used in Iowa and plans for a television advertising campaign that will eschew the crosses and fish that meant so much to his Iowa base.
Awww, no fish?! I was always kinda partial to the fish!
Huckabee is nothing if not consistent. Sure, he losing the religious trappings that served him well in Iowa, but he's remaining every bit the crassly calculating and cynically manipulative politician that he has proven himself to be from the start of this campaign.
I'm sure I have no idea what they're talking about.
(The video I found on YouTube is a spoof. If it's already been posted, that's okay. It's good enough for a re-post.)
