Flip-Flopping Huckabee

• Mike Huckabee, over the course of ONE DAY, decided that he was against the 14th ammendment (which grants citizenship to all children born on US soil) and then decided that he was for it in a press release later that day.
  http://washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080108/NATION/311698216/1001
  http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZTUxZjNkYmIxYTAyNzJiZTEzNjJmNzI2OTMyOWNmMzI

• Mike Huckabee scheduled a big press conference in which he was going to release a negative ad about Mitt Romney. When the press conference started, he announced that he was not going to air any negative ads. Then he proceeded to show the ad to the press anyway. They laughed at him. It later ran on Iowa television and was aired during news broadcasts nationwide.
  http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/31/huckabees-remarkable-play/

• *Mike Huckabee was asked "If you are president in 2009 and Congress brings you a bill to outlaw smoking nationwide in public places, would you sign it?" To which he responded "I would, certainly would. In fact, I would, just like I did as governor of Arkansas, I think there should be no smoking in any indoor area where people have to work," To which his campaign LATER responded "...the governor believes that this issue is best addressed at the local and state levels."
  http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/huckabee-about-face-on-smoking-2008-01-16.html

• Mike Huckabee, as governor, was among a bi-partisan group of politicians who were calling for the end of the US trade embargo with Cuba. Recently, while campaigning at a Cuban restaurant in Florida, he decided that the embargo was a good thing and promised to do more than George W Bush to economically strangle Castro.
  http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-huckabee11dec11,1,4449705.story?coll=la-politics-campaign

• Mike Huckabee accused his opponent in his 1998 senate race of mischaractarizing his record when he was "accused" of supporting school vouchers, saying that they were impractical for Arkansas. But in November, 2007, he decided that he now supports school vouchers, apparently unbenownst to the New Hampshire teacher's union which endorsed him.
  http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2007/12/should_huckabee_be_wearing_fli.html

• Mike Huckabee was asked how he felt about about overturning Roe v Wade. He said "it should be left to the states," Then, in a presidential debate, he said it was preposterous to leave such a deep moral issue to the states.
  http://www.rightwingnews.com/interviews/huckabee.php
  http://www.arkansasleader.com/2007/11/editorialshuck-flip-flops.html

• Mike Huckabee, in the same interview noted above, was asked if he thought illegal immigrants should be allowed to stay in the country on a pathway to citizenship. He said "Well, I'm not as sure that leaving and then coming back is as important as it is to acknowledge that what they've done is illegal, pay a fine, and then get in line behind the people that are going through the process of being here legally. But now he has completely ruled out a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants before they have returned to their countries of origin.
  http://www.rightwingnews.com/interviews/huckabee.php
  http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/07/huckabee-releases-immigration-plan/

• Mike Huckabee told The Guardian that he would NOT increase federal funding for music and art education, but then in a presidential debate, he said he"would make arts and music education tested curriculum and provide federal funds to do so."
  http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/usa/2007/12/huckabees_reverse_flipflop.html

• Mike Huckabee said "I am not sure that I support the troop surge if that surge has to come from our guard and reserve troops," which it did. Until yet another recent presidential debate, where he felt it appropriate to claim that he supported the surge when Mitt Romney did not. (Despite the fact that Romney came out in support of the surge on January 10 and Huckabee was unsure on January 24.)
  http://www.evangelicalsformitt.org/front_page/huckabee_flip_flops_on_surge_w.php