Paul Mirengoff comments on Huckabee’s “I’d rather be in second place with honor than in first place with dishonor” quote – which’d seem to be a swat at current leader John McCain:
You can’t be in second place with honor once you take a shot like that at an honorable man.
I’ll chalk it up to the Hucker trying to coin a cute turn of phrase, and milling out a squib.
But it’s a dumb squib.
I thought it was a swipe at Romney. While Romney is not in first place (unless you are drinking the Hewitt Kool-Aid), he has shown willingness to change principles to advance his campaign, and his campaign has embraced negative advertising more so than the other Republicans, from what I can tell.
According to CNN Romney is in first place for number of delegates.
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/scorecard/#val=R
It would be interesting to see who chose the Romney delegates. My guess is that these are people of HH’s social class — upper middle class professionals and business people with ties to the GOP elite.