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A few good Mitt stories:

#1: Mike Huckabee campaign implodes: Libertarians & Fiscal Conservatives breathe a huge sigh of relief (at Libertarian Republican)

Thankfully, that momentum has just been halted. And now Romney appears well on his way towards securing Iowa and New Hampshire.

#2: Huckabee Has Lost His Chance at Ticket Run: Mike Huckabee has run his campaign and his political future into a deadend

No one can fault an all-or-nothing strategy in sports. We all enjoy watching a football team go for the win rather than the tie. The difference between sports and politics, however, is in Sports you always have another season.

Second chances don't often happen in national politics. For Mike Huckabee, he had a chance to be part of a Republican presidential ticket or perhaps a cabinet position. Instead, now he will be reduced to a regional broker of far-right interests. That is a sad ending to a promising political career.

I skipped a lot of good writing by Ron Graham and quoted again near the end of his story:

Still, he had a chance to mend fences again to the heir apparant (Romney) of the Republican Party. He had an opportunity to keep his future alive, but he once again got bad advice. He filmed a counter-attack advertisement on Romney, then called a press conference to show it to all the world. At the last moment, he claims that he changed his mind. Certainly the honorable and smart thing to do.

"I will take the high road," he claimed.

The bad advice? He ran the commercial he had filmed for about 500 reporters - which had the effect of essentially looking again like a hypocrite. Sure, he wasn't going to put it on television, but he was going to put it on television -- via the media. It was a good idea that might have saved him a few dollars, but it earned him more hypocrite marks, this time from the media.

#3: "TIME" WILL TELL by Nancy French at Evangelicals for Mitt

The Washington Post reports that Huckabee decided against the ad ten minutes before he went to the podium:

“Huckabee said the ad -- which attacks Romney for being too dishonest to be president -- was sent to television and radio stations yesterday but will not be broadcast. He said he had made the decision 10 minutes before his [12:00pm CST] news conference, surprising even his top staff. ‘I pulled the ad. I do not want it to be run at all,’ he said.”

According to an aide, this is why enormous negative placards were still up -- Huck's decision was so last minute that they didn't have time to take down the negative signs.

However, the Gazette Online says the television stations were notified two hours before the press conference that they'd decided not to run them:

An official at KCRG-TV9 TV9 in Cedar Rapids confirmed that the station received the 30-second spot from the Huckabee campaign shortly after 6 a.m. today but was told at 10:01 a.m. not to air the commercial and the station did not show the paid advertisement.

Apparently -- and I know this will shock you -- the whole thing was a huge publicity stunt, designed to appeal to evangelicals who are tired of all the "negativity" associated with the campaign. (Of course, I'm being sarcastic, but I am shocked at Huckabee's casual relationship with truth.)

But this episode reminds us that he also believes evangelical voters are rubes who can't tell true repentance from a poorly orchestrated stunt.

Let's prove him wrong, brothers and sisters.

Exactly. Let's show Huck that we see through the most hypocritical, chaotic stunt of this election cycle.