http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xn7uSHtkuA

…Where Romney talks about issues important to the campaign…such as immigration, crime, foreign policy, the economy…huckabee says he stayed at a “Holiday Inn Express” and uses Christ as to why he should be elected leader of the free world. Huckabees usage of the cross (watch it again), Christian leader, Christmas, etc. is really disgusting to me as a Christian, and needs to stop. Using Christ as a political tool is wrong and Huckabust needs to stop it. You think he just wants to wish everyone a Merry Christmas…ummmm…NO. he is politicizing it, saying again loud and clear…i am a Christian, don’t look at my record, don’t worry about…I am a Christian, that is all that matters…like Jimmy Carter, and Bill CLinton weren’t self-proclaimed Christians either…come on people wake up. Look at his record and see how Christian he is, beyond abortion and marriage. How about Ethics?

Posted by: jaaron | December 18, 2007 6:07 AM

Jaaron, you are right on in your comment! I apologize to “the Swamp blog” for swiping commenter’s statement, it is on point.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200712110003

On Morning Joe, while discussing the controversy surrounding Mike Huckabee’s 1992 statements about AIDS, Mika Brzezinski praised Huckabee for being “charming,” “authentic,” and “honest,” and stated that the way he’s handling the issue is “brilliant.” In fact, Huckabee has claimed that he “didn’t say that we should quarantine” AIDS patients, and he has asserted that “[t]here was still so much confusion about HIV transmission” at the time he made the statements in question. But as several news outlets pointed out, by 1992, it was widely known that AIDS could not be transmitted via casual contact.

Coverage of Huckabee’s response to the NIE on Iran

MSNBC’s Brewer, U.S. News’ Walsh didn’t note Huckabee’s reported acknowledgment that he had not even heard of NIE on Iran

http://www.mediamatters.org/items/200712050008

MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer and U.S. News & World Report’s Kenneth Walsh discussed the general reactions of “GOP [presidential] candidates” to the release of the key judgments of a National Intelligence Estimate on Iran. While Brewer mentioned the specific reactions of John McCain and Fred Thompson, neither Brewer nor Walsh noted that Mike Huckabee reportedly stated that he was not familiar with the NIE, having not read it, not been briefed on it, and not even heard of it.