Huck Gives Them Heck

Brad Haynes reports on the election and its aftermath. Republican recriminations are flying, and former candidate Mike Huckabee is about to enter the post-election fracas with a book that goes on sale Tuesday. A preview of the former GOP presidential candidate’s latest book suggests he’s taken aim at some GOP icons. In what may be the first shots of a 2012 match-up, Huckabee had harsh words for Mitt Romney , his chief foe in the Iowa primary. The former governor of Massachusetts was “anything but conservative until he changed the light bulbs in his chandelier in time to run for president,” Huckabee wrote. In “a sign of total disrespect,” Romney pointedly avoided a congratulatory call after Huckabee’s long-shot win in the Iowa caucuses, he wrote. Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom dismissed the charges as “pettiness” and “personal recriminations.” But Romney isn’t the only one castigated by the former Arkansas governor. While much of the book recaps the ... (link)