FLIP...FLOP---Huckabee and the Smoking Ban---It's All Smoke and Mirrors

How can you trust this guy?

Here in Arkansas people cannot smoke on private property, thanks to Mike Huckabee. He pushed a law, based on phoney science, to ban smoking cigarettes, cigars, and pipes, all legal products, in private businesses that allow patrons under the age of 21. He has claimed that his is a conservative position because taxpayers supposedly have to pay for the health care of 2nd hand smoking "victims". Despite the fact that the study cited was not based on science, many legislators were scared into supporting Huck's nanny state bill.

Now, Huckabee supposedly doesn't support a federal ban. In a statement to The Hill, "Huckabee said that if Congress presented him with legislation banning smoking in public places, he would sign it, because he would not oppose the overwhelming public support that such a congressional vote would reflect. However, since such sentiment for federal legislation doesn’t exist at this time, and since he has said that the responsibility for regulating smoking initially lies with the states, the governor believes that this issue is best addressed at the local and state levels.”

This is surreal. Huckabee complains that Mitt Romney flip flopped on some issues, as if he hasn't. Now he's flip flopping, sort of, on this. I say sort of because he's just showing that he doesn't have a spine. He still supports a nationwide ban on smoking, which was clear in the video above. It's also clear that he wasn't saying that he'd only support it if and only if there was popular support. Even if there was, why would that make it okay.

Just like his Meltdown when he supposedly swore of "negative" campaigning by showing a "negative" ad, Huckabee is trying to get credit for not supporting a ban when he still does support it.

This is just one more example of Huckabee's duplicity.

Here's the link.