The Hill.com story:
Huckabee pulls negative ad, vows to go positive
By Sam Youngman
December 31, 2007
DES MOINES – Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) told reporters Monday that he was pulling a negative ad designed to target his chief rival in Iowa, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R).
Then he showed the ad to a room packed wall to wall with reporters.
That is an incredibly savvy move for Huckabee to make, this way, the ad STILL slaps Romney, and Huckabee manages to look like a good guy, and saves the money his campaign would have paid to air the ad.
Brilliant.
