Mike Huckabee in Iowa:

"I hear people who give advice that the Republicans need to moderate. They need to be a little more to the left," Huckabee said in an interview with The Associated Press. "It sounds like advice that Democrats would give to us so that we'd never win another election ever."

So the GOP's problem in 2008 was that they moved too far to the left?

"It's when they move to the mushy middle and get squishy that they get beat," he said.

To be fair and balanced, Mike Huckabee is full of crap -- or he's changed his philosophy since the 2008 president campaign. Back then, he said:

"I would be the kind of Republican who doesn't scare the living daylights out of people who are in the center or slightly to the left," he said.

During the 2008 campaign Huckabee said the GOP needs to appeal to moderates and to the left.

Now he says the GOP needs to stay to the right of Attila the Hun.

Rupert Murdoch must be paying him some awful nice coin.