The minute I start to doubt Mike Huckabee, he delivers. If he keeps this up, he could win every primary in the Old South:
MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina (CNN) – Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee told South Carolina voters Thursday that the government had no business making decisions over the Confederate flag.
"You don't like people from outside the state coming in and telling you what to do with your flag," Huckabee said at a Myrtle Beach campaign event. "In fact, if somebody came to Arkansas and told us what to do with our flag, we'd tell them what to do with the pole, that's what we'd do."Later, in Florence, he repeated the remarks. "I know what would happen if somebody comes to my state in Arkansas and tells us what to do, it doesn't matter what it is, tell us how to run our schools, tell us how to raise our kids, tell us what to do with our flag — you want to come tell us what to do with the flag, we'd tell them what to do with the pole."
I mean, wow... Not only did he get himself on the right side of the issue, he did so in language southern conservatives might themselves use. Both Romney and Huckabee pander, sure, but when Huckabee does it, it comes across as so natural and believable that you almost forget he's pandering.
All this from a Baptist minister, no less.
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