Huckabee Watch

Murray Waas over at Huffington Post has been on Huckabee’s case this week regarding Wayne Dumond. This will not sink Huckabee. These allegations were addressed during the 2002 governor’s race. The stakes are higher. So is the scrutiny Huckabee will have to overcome. Yet, even with these new revelations, this is an old story.My friend Max Brantley at the Arkansas Times seems to think this may have a bombshell quality to it:

This is powerful stuff. People who were Huckabee’s people essentially say 1) he’s a liar; 2) he knew Dumond was a multiple offender 3) he worked for Dumond’s freedom anyway.

Big.

My suspicion is that the average Iowan GOP caucus-goer (or undecided American voter) isn’t digging deeper than the mainstream media’s Dumond narrative — a narrative Huckabee has already weathered. These new details won’t affect that, but simply confirm what most political observers in Arkansas already knew: While governor of Arkansas, Huckabee made a decision that was at least regrettable and at most a disturbingly callous abuse of power. I think it was the latter, and I’m not attempting to defend Huckabee in any way, but I don’t think it will stop him from getting the nomination.

What do you think? Could Dumond kill Huckabee in Iowa?

UPDATE:

A tipster to the Arkansas Times Blog has spotted Mike Isikoff roaming around downtown Little Rock

Spotted on the streets downtown — Newsweek’s Mike Isikoff, captain of the panty posse during the late great Whitewater Etc. snipe hunt. His presence — and that of other Newsweek writers — indicates a cover story might be in the works. More hype? Or a little something contrarian? We’ll see. Presumably Butch Reeves is now on Mike’s to-see list.

Max beat me to the punch in predicting a Huckabee cover on Time or Newsweek sometime before Christmas.