Mike Huckabee had a press conference this morning that has even his devout supporters scratching their heads, wondering what the hell he was thinking. It's like the guy had just decided to remake Skidoo, only odder.
Basically, he announced that his reps had prepared an attack ad slamming Mitt Romney but that he [Huckabee] wasn't going to use it. And then, just to show that he'd made something he didn't want America to see, he then ran it for reporters.
The commercial accuses Romney of being dishonest, a comment that Huckabee and his crew have made in other ways in other venues. So he said it and he stands by it and he clearly wants that message out there…but he's electing not to use the ad because he doesn't want that kind of commercial (the kind he made, the one that's all over the Internet by now) to represent him. Or something like that.
I'm tempted to write out the question that I'd like to see Jay Leno put to the man when he has him in the guest chair on Wednesday. But I can't. There's a strike on.