Well, congratulations to Romney supporters everywhere. They pushed out the Huckabee story on AIDS from 1992 (I was in high school at the time surfing BBS’s because Algore hadn’t really made the internets publicly available to all at the time) today, getting it up on Drudge and across the blogosphere.

After doing so, Huckabee released a statement saying

I supported the current Administrations proposal to double our initial commitment from $15 billion to $30 billion over the next five years for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

In so doing, the Huckabee camp caved pretty immediately on the only fiscally conservative stance I think he’s ever taken — no government funding for research.

Sad on both counts. Sad to see Huck ditch a fiscally conservative position. Sad to see Romney supporters going after a 1992 statement given their guy’s statements in both 1994 and 2002.

Perhaps it is time to stick to current issues on all sides. Does anyone really want to relive the 90’s? If so, say hello to President Clinton.

[UPDATE:] Look, a lot of Romney supporters are upset at my accusation that Romney supporters are pushing this story. Here’s why I say that:

(1) Reporters are lazy and you’re full of it if you think the AP itself came up with this story. Someone gave it to them.
(2) This morning I had several emails from people, all of whom I know to be Romney supporters, sending me the AP story.
(3) I have close ties to folks in the McCain and Thompson camp and cordial ties to the Giuliani camp. Not one of those camps pushed this information out there to me before or after the AP story.
(4) The rest deals with an off the record matter we probably all know about, but it would be impolite to discuss even though these things get forwarded all over the place. Needless to say, go back to point 3.