December 16, 2007 12:16 AM UTC

"I can't believe he'd say that," Romney said of Huckabee...

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• by: NEWSMAN

Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment:

“Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican.”

Romney: Huckabee Critique Un-Republican  

Dec 15 12:29 PM US/Eastern

By JIM KUHNHENN

 HUMBOLDT, Iowa (AP) – Mitt Romney accused Republican presidential rival Mike Huckabee of “running from the wrong party” for criticizing President Bush’s foreign policy as an “arrogant bunker mentality.”

Romney defended Bush against Huckabee’s charge, which the former Arkansas governor leveled in the January-February issue of the respected journal Foreign Affairs.

“I can’t believe he’d say that,” Romney said to a gathering of about 100 supporters in a restaurant here. “I had to look again-did this come from Barack Obama or from Hillary Clinton? Did it come from John Edwards? No, it was Governor Huckabee.”

Romney has been aggressively criticizing Huckabee, stressing differences over immigration and economic policy in hopes of recapturing a lead he had enjoyed in Iowa for most of the year. Huckabee’s Foreign Affairs article, made public Friday, offered another line of attack.

“I’m the last person to say that this administration is subject to an arrogant, bunker mentality that is counterproductive here and abroad,” he said. “The truth of the matter is this president has kept us safe these past six years and that has not been easy to do.”

Still, Romney carefully stressed that he believed the administration had engaged in missteps during the war in Iraq and said his defense of Bush did not mean he would follow the president’s current policy to the letter.

“We were under-prepared and under-planned and understaffed,” he said of the war following the fall of Saddam Hussein. “There is no question we weren’t perfectly managed.”  

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Is Huckabee violating Reagan’s 11th commandment for criticizing George W. Bush?

Is Romney violating Reagan’s 11th commandment for criticizing  Mike Huckabee for criticizing George W. Bush?

Or is this acceptable and expected political discourse in a Presidential campaign?

When .. the decisions are made as to who the candidates will be, then the 11th commandment prevails and everybody goes to work, and that is: Thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican. Ronald Reagan