AFTER QUOTING ONE OF MY READERS, JOE CARTER WRITES: “The fact that Reynolds (and many others) think that screwing over one’s employees is a central ‘free-market principle’ is disheartening.”

I can see how that would be disturbing, if it were true. My problem with Huckabee, however, is a bit different — it’s that when he talks about this stuff, he sounds like a slicker John Edwards.

UPDATE: Joe responds: “With all due respect to Reyonlds, anyone who thinks Governor Huckabee–a supply sider who favors reducing corporate tax rates, supports the Bush tax cuts, and proposes eliminating the AMT and the death tax–sounds like Sen. Edwards obviously hasn’t been paying attention to his actual message.”

Well, I guess his communications department needs to be doing a better job of getting that message out, as opposed to the “I’m a Christian!” message, which we all get by now. Because I’m hardly the only one to get this impression, and it’s come from Huckabee’s own statements.