No soup for you! Huckabee compares Romney to Seinfeld's lying friend George Costanza. LOL!!

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No soup for you! Huckabee compares Romney to Seinfeld's lying friend George Costanza. LOL!!

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Huckabee Flip Flops on Going Negative
December 31, 2007 1:44 PM
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2007/12/huckabee-enough.html

The Huckabee campaign has taken a bizarre turn this afternoon.

The former Arkansas governor announced a press conference in Des Moines, Iowa Monday afternoon to launch a negative attack ad on his rival former Gov. Mitt Romney, R-Mass., and go after what he thinks are Romney's flip-flops.

But then, Huckabee said, he changed his mind. He didn't want to launch the ad.

Huckabee now says he will run a positive campaign, even though he's been calling Romney "dishonest" since Friday, spoke to the press surrounded by placards slamming Romney, and has a passage on his website comparing Romney to Seinfeld's lying friend George Costanza.

"It's never too late to do the right thing," Huckabee told reporters.

Huckabee took the unusual step of showing the media the anti-Romney TV ad, the one he said he told TV stations to pull from the airwaves.
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No soup for you!
December 30, 2007 7:44 PM
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2007/12/no-soup-for-you.html

In a sign that the Iowa Republican caucuses has taken a particularly dastardly turn, the campaign of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee on Sunday began comparing its chief rival in this state, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, to the most notorious of all fictional characters in modern pop culture -- George Costanza.

Referring to the 6th season episode of Seinfeld, "The Beard," in which Jerry is coached by George as to how he can beat a lie detector test (in order to maintain a claim that he had never watched "Melrose Place"), Huckabee's campaign said that the Romney standard for truth-telling is comparable to Costanza's memorable advice that closes this scene, from the February 9, 1995 episode:

JERRY: So George, how do I beat this lie detector?

GEORGE: I'm sorry, Jerry I can't help you.

JERRY: Come on, you've got the gift. You're the only one that can help me.

GEORGE: Jerry, I can't. It's like saying to Pavarotti, "Teach me to sing like you."

JERRY: All right, well I've got to go take this test. I can't believe I'm doing this.

GEORGE: Jerry, just remember. It's not a lie... if you believe it.

The Huckabee campaign then lists a litany of incidents of what it calls "Romney's pattern of economizing with the truth," including Romney's disputed assertion that he "saw" his father march with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., his faulting of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., for failing "Reagan 101" for opposing President Bush's tax cuts -- when Romney at the time also said he didn't approve of the Bush tax cut proposals, yada yada yada.

Jason Alexander, who played Costanza, could not be reached to comment on what it's like to have his character compared to Mitt Romney.

Not that there's anything wrong with it.