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Huckabee knocking Romney\u2019s evolving stances on values issues like abortion rights is nothing new, but comparing him to the flip-flopping John Kerry in an interview with CBN\u2019s David Brody <\/a>is. The question is whether Huckabee\u2019s latest salvo says more about his own vulnerabilities than about Romney\u2019s. God-o-Meter sees that the former Arkansas Governor is struggling to translate his second place finish in this month\u2019s Ames straw poll into a surge in fundraising or support, while Romney finished first in Ames<\/a>, is raking in the dough, and leads early primary state polls. Trying to maintain his Mr. Nice Guy image, Huckabee calls Romney a \u201cman of integrity\u201d but \u201cIt doesn\u2019t mean the Democrats will lay off of him when it comes to doing the same thing to him in a general election that Republicans did to John Kerry by rolling those pieces of videotape with conflicting statements.\u201d
\nRomney\u2019s evolving views, Huckabee says, \u201ccauses people to say how many different changes of position can one have during an adult\u2019s lifespan as a politician and then be confidant that that person is going to have another epiphany at some point in the future?\u201d
\nIn the same interview, Huckabee says it\u2019s only natural for voters to take Romney\u2019s Mormonism into account<\/a>. While other candidates have been queasy about doing so, God-o-meter notes that Huckabee has pretty great political cover in doing so: the former Baptist preacher wants voters–particularly the GOP\u2019s evangelical base–to consider his own faith, too: \u201c[E]verybody\u2019s faith, their career, their family, all of those things are part of what helps people to determine whether a candidate is acceptable to them.”<\/p>\n


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