WASHINGTON — For two months, presidential candidate Mike Huckabee rode his second-place finish in the Iowa Straw Poll to a wave of positive reviews. For the most part, newspapers and broadcasters treated him gently, dwelling on his famous weight loss, the role of faith in his politics and his quip for every occasion.
Only lately have they begun to ask questions about the judgments Huckabee made 1 during his 10/2 years as Arkansas' governor, about his relative inexperience in foreign affairs and about his role in the parole of Wayne DuMond. In recent days, articles in The Boston Globe, in The American Spectator magazine and on U.S. News & World Report's political blog have been sharply negative.
This week, as befits a second-tier candidate trying to chin up to the next level, Huckabee is in Washington to take on the first tier of television's talking heads. From Tuesday through Thursday, he will appear on a dozen shows, taking questions from thelikes of George Stephanopoulos, Wolf Blitzer, Neal Cavuto, Bill O'Reilly and Charlie Rose.
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