...to anyone related to Clinton. They would let bin Laden go free if Clintons fourth cousin twice removed had died on 9/11. I mean, anyone related to Clinton deserved to get raped, right? He cheated on his wife, moral absolutes have to be upheld. Therefore anyone related to Clinton is the spawn of Satan.

These people's "morality" is a joke!

It's easy to see why the MSM is in love with Huckabee: "Huckabee prefers sarcastic putdowns and hyperbole." Who does that remind you of? The current President, of course, the man whose every failing and unpleasantness has been dressed up as a moral virtue. He's not rigid, for instance, he's a man of conviction. he's not petty and vindictive, no, he prizes loyalty. Und so weiter. The big question is why the MSM feels it has to crawl up the ass of men like this and sing the Hallelujah Chorus.

i am a long time resident of arkansas, and i can tell you that huckabee is a fraud. he doesn't believe in the separation of church and state. he is a hypocrit from start to finish. he is your basic bible banging evangelical preacher disguised as a joke cracking fun loving good old american boy. i worked for the state of arkansas during his terms as governor, and i know this to be true. if all that isn't enough, the same doctor that did my rny gastric bypass did governor huckabee's gastric bypass. he is going around the country spewing this eating well, excersing, clap trap, and he is a hypocrit. he had the bypass like the rest of us. if only one prominent politician would come out for bypass surgery for weight loss, many people would be alive today.

In that interview with him Salon ran recently, he used some tortured logic explaining why he couldn't support even domestic partnership for gays and lesbians. It lead to the ruinous road to "gay" marriage, he reasoned. He just seems like another garden variety bigot to me. All of his "sides" are dark as far as I'm concerned.

Huckabee sounds as though he'd perfect as President and could seamlessly continue Bush's legacy ... disregarding ethics, destroying records, putting down any kind of independent thinking. Maybe he could declare a hypothetical war on Iran to complete the picture. Why, bring it on.

What's going on here? Are you trying to spoil the Huckster's chance at being Romney or Ghoul's VP?

Aside from the "dark sides" listed in the article, Huckabee said this weekend that he was best suited to protect us from Islamic terror because he has a theology degree, and is thus the most prepared to fight a "theocratic war". So...we need an evangelical preacher to combat Islamic extremism with...Christian extremism? What's scary is not just the fact that this man appears to be looney-tunes, but that he's made it this far in the Presidential race.

Dammit Max, you weren't supposed to tell until after the Republicans nominated him.

"... a guy with a thin skin, a nasty vindictive streak, and a long history of imbroglios about questionable ethics."

This is Dubya at the core. How is it guys like this are the darlings of the so-called Christian conservatives? Don't they know whited sepulchers when they see them?

Clearly not. And what is it with David Brooks's man-crush? A little charm'll do it. Huckabee doesn't even have to buy him dinner.

Hi Revagent

I am familiar with the Gastric Bypass surgery and I am somewhat surprised that so many celebrities like Al Roker on the Today show ( forgive me if I get these names wrong) and the forme Black lady Host on the View chose to deny for the longest time that they have had this surgery. So, I guess I would not be surprised to discover that Huckabee has also had this surgery and yet has chosen to preach a hypocritical message of 'eating well and exercising well' and that will do the trick'. Morbid obesity is not cured easily by such platitudes. The disonesty of this kind of message as well as Huckabee's other statements of dishonesty make him very scary indeed. He is probably the most frightening candidate of all in that he seems to think or believe he has 'God's blessing' read fanatic and thus, like GWB is Hell bent on bringing about Armagedden. He is a possibly a future religious psychopath

That anyone standing for election to national office can get away with stepping forward and proudly claiming to "not believe" in evolution should immediately be disqualified. Evolution is hardly a question of anything so pliant, subjective and vague as "belief". Yet here stands a man on national television, participating in the serial monologues that somehow pass as debate in this country, ready to lather on about the devil hiding dinsosaur bones to fool us mortals into thinking the earth is older than Hukabee's beloved novel tells him it is. And his qualifications are what, exactly?

Oh yeah! He has beliefs...

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.