That voting for George W. Bush and supporting him because he claims to be a Christian and called by God to run worked out really well, didn't it? So Republicans are trying it again?

Salonistas had better hope Huckabee wins. You should want it for the same reason that the mainstream media are talking him up: He's one Republican candidate the Democrats can surely beat. He generates malapropisms as part of his Krebs cycle, and, ironically, probably doesn't believe in the biology behind the Krebs cycle. He'd be a strawman made flesh.

Meanwhile, USA Today lies about events at Fred Thompson's rallies, politico.com does the same...yeah, dumbasses, it's not hard to figure out who you fear.

The guy that just yesterday said at a campaign event that he didn't even want to be president, now that's a candidate with fire in his belly, lol.

Huckabee is about the only hope the republicans have, because he puts Arkansas into play, which Clinton would otherwise deliver for his wife, putting her over the top.

We are not electing a pastor for our church. We are electing a President for our nation. I see no sign that Huckabee is competent to fill that role. He is a revenant, a person who believes the universe is six thousand years old, that women needing medical services should be limited to what Christian conservatives think are appropriate services, that seculars, Jews and Christians ought to be tolerated and not allowed full use of their human heritage. Do we want four more years of malapropisms and incompetence? Not this citizen, thanks.

This is not simple democracy. It seems to be manipulable inside politics.

Please look at the Jan. 15 Michigan Democratic Primary. The Mich. Democrats have Ms. Clinton and Mr. Kucinich on the ballot. If we write in another Democrat (e.g. Edwards or Obama), they will not even count the vote.

Our own side is doing the old crooked thang. Lyndon Johnson would be proud. Nonetheless, vote Democrat. And impeach Cheney.

Wow. Just wow. What else can you say about someone whose life is so fearful that even their personal relationship with their Lord and Savior is filled with fear? Fear is an emotion that leads people to run from what their fear with little thought as to what they are running towards. Fear is what lead this country to flee from its perceived risk of attacks, straight towards an endless war, yawning deficits, and trashed civil liberties. Another fearful President is the last thing this country needs. If we must choose a President who wears his or her religioun of their sleeve, at least let be one who has a loving relation with their deity and makes decisions from a place filled with confidence and introspection.

Huckabee fears God; I fear our perverted way of selecting our presidents. Given a system that can produce a two-term George W., the election of Huckabee or someone like him is only too plausible. The anonymous poster who hopes that Huckabee gets nominated doesn't have the whole picture. Keep in mind that the way we select our president makes the way the Holy Roman Empire picked its emperors look rational and democratic.

Take an electoral system driven purely by money, give two randomly self-selected states a laughably disproportionate role in selecting the party nominees, and cap it all off with an electoral vote system that allows the people's choice to lose. Now add candidates like Huckabee whose foreign policy, to the extent that he has one, comes from the Book of Revelation, and whose importance is swollen by our country's contempt for public education.

Mix well. Enjoy. How can this perverted means of choosing our presidents not create disaster? If 2000 taught us anything, it's that if the worst imaginable Republican candidate manages to work the Rube Goldberg machinery that governs party nominations in his favor, he is just as likely to find a way of manipulating the general electoral process.

Is that Huckabee "fears" God? Sweet Jesus! And I'd been led to believe midwesterners were oh-so-sophisticated and wise and and and...

Still, given the impossibly crazy, stupid and just plain creepy qualities Huckabee possesses (including that theophobia) he may really be the guy we want to see get the Republican nomination. He would undoubtedly be the easiest of the load of crazies and evil schemers my poor, God-forsaken party has to offer, and right now that's what I'm praying for: someone who can be beaten -- preferably senseless. Huckabee would seem already near-senseless, so it shouldn't be hard.

This is a really remarkable election year coming up. On one side (need I explain it is the Democrats?) we have an embarrassment of riches compared with what we've been subject to for the past seven years; on the other side (sigh) we have, well, an embarrassment of embarrassments. With the possible exception of John McCain (who I believe to be an honorable man, yet not one I would any longer vote for) it is truly a "confederacy of dunces" and Huckabee seems, for the moment, to be leading the pack off the cliff. May as well be him. The Arkansas factor doesn't hurt either, since I am not really a big Clinton fan (though she would get my vote over any of the Republicans offered up if it comes to that).

But there's more in this story, because there seem to be more Iowans who are religiously crazy than I'd ever have imagined. I guess that old saw about "I love my country; I fear my government" could be amended to read "...and some of my fellow Americans are creeping me out too."

God help us, every one.

"This country is in desperate, dire need of Christian leadership."

"He fears God, said Scott Bailey…Apart from that, nothing else matters to me in a candidate."

These quotes from the article underline the two predominant characteristics of fundamentalist thinking; fear and ignorance!

What these poor rubes seem to have forgotten is that for the past eight years this country has been under the boot of ‘god fearing’ ‘Christian’ leadership and it has been an unmitigated disaster on all fronts. A two trillion dollar war, a collapsing dollar, a foreign policy that practically guarantees a rise in terrorism and the continued dismantling of democracy are just a few of the many highlights of this ‘end time’ mindset’ leading our country.

I thinks it’s probably to much to hope that the rubes in Iowa and New Hampshire that are being hornswoggled by Huckabee’s ‘down home’ affability and easily digestible piety will wake up and realize that in a country that derives a great deal of it’s GDP from innovation, science and technology, there’s a genuine danger in endorsing another corn pone simpleton with a fundamentally medieval worldview.