Now, I've enjoyed, as much as anybody, the right-wing apoplexy over the sudden rise in the popularity of Mike Huckabee.
And, like some, I think Huckabee may be the most easily defeatable of the Republicans, and even relish the possibility of a Dem vs. Huckabee contenst, as a true battle of ideas that we would almost certainly win.
I'm sure most folks around here are aware that he is the nuttiest of the wingnuts -- but its worth getting some pithy quotes down, so that we can get that across in public debate, to those who buy into Huckabee's promise to unite a polarized country.
Thanksfully, the right-wingers at NewsMax have assembled such a list (I guess they thought these were good things) from todays NYT NYT Magazine interview with Huck.
Not a direct quote, but straight out of NYTM
In fact, as he wrote in his book ‘‘Character Makes a Difference,’’ he considers liberalism to be a cancer on Christianity. Huckabee is an admirer of the late Jerry Falwell (whose son, Jerry Jr., recently endorsed his candidacy) and subscribes wholeheartedly to the principles of the Moral Majority.
On potential secratries of defense...
The only name he mentioned was Representative Duncan Hunter of California. 'Duncan is extraordinarily well qualified to be secretary of Defense,' he said."
[In Huck's defense, he may have thought the interviewer said 'secratary of the fence', referring to the border fence with Mexico]
Interestingly, some right-wing bloggers won't vote for him because they think he's NOT down with the neo-con agenda. Lest anyone on our side fall into the same error:
At lunch, when I asked him who influences his thinking on foreign affairs, he mentioned Thomas Friedman ... and Frank Gaffney, a neoconservative and the founder of a research group called the Center for Security Policy."
And, finally, in case there are those who see Huck on tee-vee, and are impressed by his gentle rhetoric, his 'I'm a grace Christian, not a law Christian'schtick
...he spoke with bitterness about Richard Land, the president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. 'Richard Land swoons for Fred Thompson,... For reasons I don't fully understand, some of these Washington-based people ...make 'electability'their criterion. But I am a true soldier for the cause. If my own abandon me on the battlefield, it will have a chilling effect
Again, I'm sure most of us are aware he is a "true soldier", but he is very slick, and if he makes it to the general, look forward to an even more convincing "compassionate conservative" and "uniter-not-a-divider"