The Mike Huckabee campaign just released the video below as an ad that will run during the Christmas season in New Hampshire and South Carolina. 

It didn't take long for Matt Drudge of DrudgeReport.com to attempt to cast this ad in a negative light.  In a vintage "gotcha headline" style Drudge has the following banner - HUCKABEE AD FEATURES FLOATING 'CROSS'... DEVELOPING....   Actually he has a second banner he placed also on his front page featuring this headline with a link to the video - Huckabee Invokes Jesus in Latest Campaign Ad... Drudge seems to be pulling out all the stops placing two different sensational headlines linked to the same video.

Watch the video below and you will see the "floating cross" which is actually a window pane with holiday bulbs next to a Christmas tree in the background.  To suggest that the Huckabee campaign has placed a floating window pane as a subliminal religious message is ridiculous.  Mike Huckabee doesn't need to hide anything about his message - he says directly in the ad, "At Christmas what matters most is the celebration of the birth of Christ - and to be with our family and friends."  

Update - 12-18-07 Fox news has a story about the "floating cross" also today and even describes Huckabee sharing a greeting of "Merry Christmas" as "unthinkable. 

In a new television ad debuting today in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee does the unthinkable — he wishes early voters "Merry Christmas."