Huckabee does a flip-flop on Cuba

[Judi Lynn]

Source: L.A.Times

Huckabee does a flip-flop on Cuba


The GOP candidate now supports a trade embargo against the island nation, a stance sure to satisfy hard-line Cuban exiles.
By Peter Wallsten, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
December 11, 2007

MIAMI -- As governor of Arkansas five years ago, Mike Huckabee joined a bipartisan chorus of politicians who concluded that the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba was bad for businesses. Now that he's a top-tier candidate for president, Huckabee has decided he favors the embargo -- so much so that he vowed Monday to outdo even President Bush in strangling the regime of Cuban President Fidel Castro and punishing those who do business there.

It was a change of heart sure to please hard-liners among the Cuban exiles who could make up 10% or more of the electorate in Florida's crucial Jan. 29 Republican primary. But it also reflected the latest move by a once-obscure candidate now grappling with how to transform a burst of momentum into a sustainable bid for the White House.


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[Solly Mack]

1. and all across the island could be heard -'Incoming!!!'

[MrSlayer]

2. Well that's good. I never get sick of being unable to get Cuban cigars.

I was so not going to vote for him until he took the right side of the issue. I've been swayed.

[dipsydoodle]

3. A USA company has the tradmark for those

http://cohibas.com/

I will desist from further comment.

[chelsea0011]

4. Pandering at it's very best. Florida? Is that a swing state?

[Mika]

5. All Dem candidates support an embargo, except Dennis Kucinich.

When Dems come to S Florida, (except for DK) they do the same thing. Pander to the RW exiles who are becoming more irrelevant every election cycle.



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[dbackjon]

7. And that is very disapointing.

[rockybelt]

6. THIS SLIME BALL

WILL PANDER TO ANYBODY. MAYBE THE NEO NAZIS WILL ANNOUNCE THEIR SUPPORT AND HE CAN START PANDERING TO THEM.

[Javaman]

8. Here's the translation: bad for business; good for politics. nt

[lumpy]

9. It is clear that his guy who invokes the name of Jesus so readily

does not follow His teachings or the revered Ten Commandments. Just another not wrapped tight tin-horn preacher-politician. My prayer: please dear God, direct each voter's finger to the D side of the touch screen.