In a testy exchange just after his candidate won Thursday's Iowa caucuses, Mike Huckabee's campaign chairman acknowledged discussing the potential Huckabee would "go negative" in South Carolina and boasting about onetime-frontrunner Rudy Giuliani's foundering campaign.
Ed Rollins, who ran Ronald Reagan's 1984 bid and recently joined Huckabee's campaign, was overheard discussing the Republican primary race as he lunched in Iowa Thursday. Amanda Carpenter reported what she had heard Rollins discuss, in a post at Townhall.com.
Fox News host Chris Wallace asked Rollins about some of the post's revelations, specifically one where he discussed "going negative" in South Carolina, which holds its GOP primary Jan. 19 and where polls show Huckabee leading. Rollins acknowledged having "a private conversation with my wife" about how the campaign might shift going into North Carolina, but he said no decisions had been made yet.
"The reality is Mike Huckabee makes the decisions on this campaign, I dont," Rollins said. South Carolina "is a more negative state, they're more used to those kinds of things. I was talking to her about where this thing goes. She's a political novice, and this is a whole new game to her."
For a moment there, I thought the big secret was Huckabuck would pull off the wig and reveal himself to be Lex Luthor. Have a great weekend, folks!
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