Walter: You know setting a "foreign policy" for a Republican is a no brainer. You have to figure out how to say "bomb 'em" in the latest nomenclature. Guantanamo has become the code, or repeating the word terrorist three time like Sharon taught them. Even if Huckabee does it with a smile, it's the same magic words.

and the moron fundie Huckabee should go back to his church? I guess this is all fun to a villager like you, but some of us take the constitution seriously and don't think the Huckabee campaign is particularly funny.

This guy is no vicious bastard hiding behind a bible. He actually does practice what he preaches. His affable style is on a par with Obama's for content, although stylistically very different.

While various talking heads were ripping Clinton's crying Jag, including John Edwards, Huckabee was the lone voice telling the press to "cut her some slack."

This guy does not deserve partisan ridicule. Disagreement, for sure, but the notion he is out to destroy the constitution deserves marginalization and ridicule.

He is very much a populist, seeking to improve the lot of the lower class. The reason he hasn't locked up the evangelical vote is precisely because of his progressive social programs. He invested a ton of money into urban education in Arkansas (admittedly via court order after pitiful education performance under Whitewater fall guy Jim Guy Tucker and democrat poster boy Bill Clinton) and did so without once calling for the banning of evolution being taught in public schools. He's called anti-immigration laws racist.

I realize after assholes like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson it is hard to believe, but he's actually an avowed christian in public office who practices what he preaches. This may very well be part of his novelty and part of his demise. Neither so-called christians or secularists (for lack of a better word) trust him. The former because of his policies the secularists would likely support if they read them, and the latter because they cannot get beyond his faith.

Shame on both.

uh...are you aware of the Dominionist Christians Huckabee has been in bed with for a long time?

No? You might want to read up on it.

Huckabee is an extremist who makes all the Dems look like Eisenhower republicans. He shouldn't be allowed to get anywhere near the White House.

Can you provide me any example from his legislative track record as governor where he has been over the top religiously? I don't give a fiddler's damn what he does on his own time, whether he prays to god thrice daily or sacrifices a fucking goat in his basement.

The closest thing I have seen to this intersection was some of his clemency recommendations coming based on inputs from preachers. If that's the worst he's done, then it isn't so bad. He turned the parole dust up around on Romney beautifully, frankly, but showing how Romney's rigid approach had actually screwed a few people over.

I am no church goer, and I have a visceral dislike for the christian coalition, but I also find it awful when we pile on people just because they have faith. This guy's by no means my first choice, but I find his affable demeanor and lack of rancor and attack dog rhetoric incredibly refreshing. We could do a lot worse than an Obama Huckabee series of debates. I imagine they would be incredibly respectful toward one another.

Pundits have begun mocking the call for change asking what, exactly, it means.

I think it starts by simply beginning to treat opposition members with some respect rather than seeking to carpet bomb them at every turn. The Clinton/Bush 2 pollution of the political discourse has simply got to stop. Obama nails it by saying its a bunch of bickering baby boomers harboring grudges since the Vietnam Era on the national stage, and it is time for them to sit down and shut the fuck up.

Let'em yell at us to get off their lawns, but as long as we keep the social security checks coming we ought to be able to mollify the old bastards. Nobody cares who these fossils have sex with, as it likely is not pretty. The only drugs they are taking are prescription ones, and abortion no longer effects post menapausal boomer womyn, so let the younger generation have a crack at leading.

Our Boomer presidents have flat out sucked. Clinton couldn't control his personal predilictions long enough to act like a mature adult and Bush 2 is nothing but a chucklehead.

The WWII generation was also the children of the great depression. They spoiled these idiots rotten and the best hope boomers have for retirement planning is the inheritance from these frugal, self sacrificing people. Generations X and Y coming up behind them are tired of these self indulgent gas bags and wish they would simply take the early retirement package and get the hell out of their way.

They are prepossessed with their intergenerational bickering and it has worsened our political discourse in the process.

I say this as a tail end baby boomer who is simply fed up with this white noise on the political landscape. You can bet your ass the Clintons are likely spoiling to drop some turd bomb on Obama right before super Tuesday in hopes of swiftboating the poor bastard. They have done everything in their power to get the media to carry the water for them and expressed their frustration at the media's reluctance through Bill's impetus footstomping about the "fairy tale" in the run up to the NH results.

The hope here is that the reaction to this is as visceral as it was in NH to the piling on of Hillary in NH after her crying jag.

You're damn right we want change. We want our political leaders to behave like civil adults, and boomers can't do that.

And what should also be added to the Huckabee resume is that he has certainly put monkeys in their place. No longer can they claim to be our uncles.