During a 60 minutes interview which aired this past Sunday night, Senator John McCain reverted to his original stance on the confederate flag saying that it is “a very offensive symbol.” He also said that he was wrong to say it’s “strictly a state issue clearly knowing that it wasn’t.”

McCain admitted to changing his stance on the issue in 2000 because he felt pressured by “ambition.”

Today on a conference call with national bloggers, we asked GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee what he thinks of McCain’s comments. The former southern Governor held little back in his response.

“I don’t know, the last time I read the 10th Amendment I don’t remember there being anything in the U.S. Constitution about the Federal Government regulating state flags or insignia.”

“If it’s offensive to some folks then they deal with it, but they deal with it in South Carolina. And I think for the Federal Government to inject itself into something that is clearly a matter for a state is one of the reasons I think a Washington Insider doesn’t need to be President.”

Huckabee also harshly criticized the Bush administration’s intrusion on states’ rights.

“There have been a number of ways I have to think Thomas Jefferson would be whirling in his grave. The ghost of Alexander Hamilton has come back in the form of the current administration to upend the very argument that was really settled 240 years ago.”