Huckabee Strategist Wants to Attack Romney
Ed Rollins, the newly appointed Huckabee campaign chairman and famous for throwing with mud, playing it dirty, going negative, is quoted by the Washington Post as saying: “What I have to do is make sure that my anger with a guy like Romney, whose teeth I want to knock out, doesn’t get in the way of my thought process.”
Excuse me? “Whose teeth I want to knock out”? And this guy is on Huckabee campaign, more, the chairman of the former preacher’s campaign? There’s nothing even remotely Christian about saying something like that.
Mitt Romney’s reaction is an instant classic though: “don’t touch the hair.”
You gotta love that one.
Whatever else you want to say about these elections, it’s war alright.
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It looks to me like Rollins is setting up a good cop/bad cop routine with himself and Huckabee. Rollins is making all kinds of noise about negative campaigning, Huckabee nixes it, and the outcome they seem to hope for is that they’re able to mudsling but have Huckabee immune to charges of doing that. It’s pretty silly, and so transparent that I think anyone with any political savvy can see right through it- but I guess the question is whether the bulk of voters who aren’t very interested in politics will examine it closely enough to see through it too.