We know that the corporate cons and neocons hate Huckabee. As I wrote yesterday:
Huckabee isn't a corporate con -- he isn't even a millionaire! -- and he certainly isn't a neocon. His foreign policy would actually be predicated on liberal ideals of respect, trust and cooperation -- poison to those who get their foreign policy from Soldier of Fortune magazine T-shirt ads: "kill 'em all and let god sort them out".
He's a theocon, the very people who empowered the corporate cons and neocons the past two decades by their tireless on-the-ground activism while the others kept their fingernails clean in their Wall Street and think tank corner offices. Now that the theocons are threatening to take ther turn at the helm of the GOP, it's amusing how the rest of the -cons in the GOP are suddenly less than thrilled and willing to play ball.
But I didn't quite expect a prominent theocon to go after Huckabee, especially about his innocuous and even clever Merry Christmas ad.
Catholic League president Bill Donahue said Huckabee went beyond wishing people a joyous holiday. Donahue said he was especially disturbed by the cross-like image created by a white bookcase in the background of the ad, saying he believed it was a subliminal message.
"What he's trying to say to the evangelicals in western Iowa (is): I'm the real thing," Donahue said Tuesday on Fox News Channel's "Fox and Friends. "You know what, sell yourself on your issues, not on what your religion is."
Wow. You can't even wish people a Merry Christmas anymore? Get O'Reilly on the line! We have a new front on his fake War on Christmas! (Even if O'Reilly is spending every day declaring glorious victory...)
With crazy Donahue (who, it can't be stressed enough, has no connection to the Catholic Church whatsoever) going after the Huckster for wishing people Merry Christmas, and Peggy Noonan calling the GOP's theocon base "idiot voters", and the wingnutosphere claiming they'll vote for even Hillary before the Huckster, you've got yourself a bona fide schism in the GOP.