November 17, 2008, 6:00 pm
Huckabee’s Choice Words for Romney
By Michael Luo
Ah, memories.
Among The Caucus’s favorites from campaign days gone by were those from the bitterly cold days of December 2007 preceding the Iowa caucuses, when the silver-tongued Mike Huckabee and his indefatigable sparring partner, Mitt Romney, circled and slashed at each other from dawn until dusk.
The episodes are now in reruns with the release of Mr. Huckabee’s new book, “Do the Right Thing: Inside the Movement that’s Bringing Common Sense Back to America,” which hits bookstores tomorrow.
The release of a few choice morsels today, in which Mr. Huckabee dug in anew at Mr. Romney, sparking a back and forth between the opposing camps — both believed to be weighing another run in 2012 — reminiscent of those bright shiny days from a year ago.
Mr. Huckabee, who came from way back in the Republican pack to defeat Mr. Romney in the Iowa, excoriates his former foe in the book as “anything but conservative until he changed the light bulbs in his chandelier in time to run for president,” according to a report in Time magazine.
Eric Fehrnstrom, a spokesman for Mr. Romney, fired back today in a statement: “This type of pettiness is beneath Mike Huckabee. If we’re going to move the party forward, we need to offer more than personal recriminations. Unfortunately, in this book, Mike Huckabee is consumed with presumed slights, and he seems more interested in settling scores than in bringing people together.”
Cue the Andrew Lloyd Webber soundtrack.
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