JOURNALISTS/PUNDITS SCRATCH THEIR HEADS...

....AS HUCKABEE CAMPAIGN CHANGES COURSE. . . .

TIME's Joe Klein: "That sound you hear rumbling out of Des Moines appears to be a monumental implosion."

AP's legendary Ron Fournier writes the move "smacks of hypocrisy":

"Two of [Huckbee's] advisers, speaking on condition of anonymity, said privately Monday that the production of the ad was fueled by Huckabee's white-hot anger with Romney, and that his change of mind was jarring to the campaign staff."

Buzz among national media in Des Moines is scathing; check out the Iowa perspective from the Des Moines Register and Radio Iowa.