Mitt Romney’s campaign is itching to tell you about Mike Huckabee, through critical words from the likes of Laura Ingram, the Wall Street Journal and the San Diego newspaper editorial page. The San Diego newspaper editorial, “Meet the Huckster,” delves into his Arkansas boodling. After a list of specifics — paying himself with campaign money, expense accounts, gifts, etc. — it concludes:

We could go on in this vein, but space is limited. The bottom line: Mike Huckabee has an awful lot of explaining to do. And neither voters nor the national media should let the man Arkansas journalists call the “Huckster” get away with pretending that tough questions over his tawdry ethics record amount to mudslinging.

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