Thing's are really getting strange. I've seen Mike Huckabee on Jon Stewart's Daily Show a few times and he (Mike) always comes across as a pretty reasonable guy; I'm not going to agree with him on very many issues, but hey! That's the world we live in. Then...
Then I listened to him on several of his Rupert Murdoch's sanctioned fOX nEWS broadcasts, and Man! He (Mike, again) was swinging for the fences! Such a cHRISTIAN demeanor! Mike's not even trying to be reasonable, or fair (the fOX logo); he's just opening his mouth, saying anything that comes into his mind, and THEN, later assessing what he thinks his base will believe in. (The old canard: the general is sitting in a cafe as a mob runs by; he leaps up. "Where are you going?" Asks his friend, "There go my troops; I must lead them!" he answers).
Joe Kline, in News Week did a wonderful job of documenting Huckabee's recent mouthings. I rarely do this but, to paraphrase only slightly:
"Mike Huckabee has said that President [I ADDED THE HONORIFIC, President, Mike didn't] Obama... was raised in Kenya, sympathized with Mau Maus' anti colonialism all because he wasn't a boy scout and there were no Rotary Clubs there, only madrasahs...". Wow, Mike that's amazing! The facts are: President Obama was raised in Hawaii, not Kenya. He was raised by his (WHITE) Kansas Republican grandparents. He was a boy scout. There are plenty of Rotary Clubs in Hawaii, and as for anti colonialism sentiments; The Tea Party folks, one assumes, also sympathize with anti colonialism; last I heard, that's what The Original Tea Party was all about. But never mind the facts; make up stuff if it serves your purpose.
What we, the rationally thinking people, must remember is that; 51% of rEPUBLICANS don't believe that Obama is an American citizen. And, some 50 % of the GOP voting public don't believe in evolution, or planet earth more than 6,000 years old, or likely that the earth is a sphere that circles the sun in a galaxy in an immense universe.
I can't imagine where the GOP's votes are coming from. Apparently, their dream ticket is an amalgam of Huchabee's truthfulness, Gingrich's family values, Ann Coulter's compassion, and Mitt Romney's consistency (health care and abortion) and religion [sorry, Jesus just did not walk around Utah, ever]. At some point these kinds of beliefs have to matter, at least unless you're willing to disregard all religious belief.
That's something that I fervently wish we could do. After all, any and all religions are equally ridiculous (See: http://somelightsomeserious.blogspot.com/2009/10/if-you-think-that-belief-in-god-should.html). But oh boy, can they cause troubles for us all.
I give up.
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