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• Tuesday, November 13, 2007 12:34 AM

  Viva Max!

  It's hard to tell what game the press might be playing in cozying up to this mental midget, but Huckabee is certainly the flavor of the moment. Perhaps they're just bored. Or perhaps they look forward to exploiting the face-off between Hillary and the Huckster. It's a mystery. But Max Brantley has done us all a huge service by throwing cold water on journalists' claims that Mike Huckabee walks on the stuff. He was an embarrassment to the "banana republic" he trashed on Imus, and he is an embarrassment to the electoral process today. My "favorite" memory of him will always be the day he appeared on Arkansas television, red-faced and pouty, to decry then-governor Jim Guy Tucker, who was having second thoughts about stepping down from his office and letting Lieutenant Governor Huckabee slimeball into his seat. It was like watching an angry two-year-old throw a rattle across the room. It was also a preview of things to come. Message to the national press: don't give this man a forum. Treat him like all the other candidates, but don't be fooled by what passes as the Huckster "charm." That rattle could be the sound of a snake about to strike.

  —afhickman Read afhickman's other letters
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