Recently Mike Huckabee wrote an article for Foreign Affairs criticizing Bush's foreign policy activities. (I read about it here: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/15/us/politics/15cnd-campaign.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin). I think this is a clever use of the increased attention he now gets from gaining in the polls. For him to so strongly criticize Bush's policies doubles as both a tool for increased attention and a way of presenting himself as independent from an unpopular President. I also must give him credit for finding what I believe is the greatest fault in our current foreign policy: arrogance or the appearance of arrogance.
Another interesting thing highlighted in the article brings us back to Alinsky:
Mr. Huckabee’s article was seized on by Mitt Romney’s campaign, which has been criticizing him for his recent joke on Don Imus’s radio show, in which he said, “I may not be the expert that some people are on foreign policy, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night.”
While I'm not normally a Huckabee fan, I have to give him credit for using humor as Alinsky suggests people should do. The ad he references is in the experience of anyone who has watched a TV in the last few years.
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