And Now The Nastiness

The polls are continuing to show a surge for Mike Huckabee, and not only are voters signing on to the Huck train, political endorsers like the House speaker in Florida are as well.

So of course, it's time for the opponents to go into the dirt, particularly in the historically dirty South Carolina primary. This is a flyer being passed around in the Palmetto State this weekend, courtesy of the "Lynchburg Christian Students For Truth."



It's striking how the critiques of Huckabee from the left and from the right are almost totally different, but the unifying factor is the Wayne Dumond story. While Huckabee tried to claim that story as the provenance of a far-left smear machine, it gets nearly a full treatment here. They conveniently don't mention the fact that Dumond was a Clinton hater cause celebre, but on "law 'n' order" grounds, they are using it. (I prefer the argument that this guy doesn't have a clue what's going on in the world, but what are you gonna do?)

It's completely unclear where this is coming from, but what is clear is that Republican primaries always wind up this way. For all the hype about Reagan's 11th Commandment, the whisper campaign always takeover. And in a race where it doesn't appear that anybody can possibly win, the operative word in this last month will be NASTY.