Tribute to Huckabee

So enough baby-puppy pictures lest this blog get too lopsided. This past week however Mike Huckabee dropped out of the race. The governor who signed a full page add saying women should submit to their husbands is out of the race. Now I suppose it's one thing if you're a pastor giving a sermon on Ephesians (and you include the part about husbands), but seems a bit dangerous as governor. There were the anti-Mormon comments that he pleaded ignorance to, despite being the keynote speaker at an anti-Mormon conference in 1998. The sensitive chap who felt the proper response to people who disagreed with flying the confederate battle flag over government buildings was to "tell them where to stick the pole," is gone. The foreign policy wiz who seemed to be the only one in either party not to know about the N.I.E. report on Iran's nuclear program, and wondered when Pakistan would end martial law weeks after they had done so, will not represent us on the world stage. The folksy guy who was constantly having problems with ethics laws as governor and even set up a wedding-style registry to facilitate the flow of brib...uh gifts will not be our man to fix Washington. No federal role for the man who pressured parol boards to release murderers who "found Jesus". No more floating cross "Christian leader" commercials, dishonest push-polling calls, and donations from televangelists under investigation for fraud. . Alas, the man who's only higher education was in a Baptist madrassa will not be able fulfill his talibanesqe pledge to "change the constitution to fit God's law." (So much for render unto Caesar, eh Huck?)

Unfortunately, I can't whole heartedly give him my vote for worst candidate on either side. After all there was that sleazy "Two America's" guy who seemed to aspire to be the North American Hugo Chavez.

Links in fond memory of the Huck:
Squirrel a' la Huckabee
Night at the creation museum
Boyscout
Clemency song Victims commercial Paroles