Thursday, November 29, 2007  How the Democrats can destroy
Huckabee  Huckabee(Cross posted at God is for Suckers!)  It's
becoming increasingly likely that Mike Huckabee is going to be
the Republican nominee. The Evangelicals will take one of their
own if they can have one, they can have Huckabee, so they aren't
settling for a Mormon (Romney) or a vaguely secular type
(Giuliani) or someone who only recently made friends with Jerry
Falwell (McCain).  Today, Andrew Sullivan approvingly linked to
a Mark Kleinman post declaring that one of the things Huckabee
has going for him is that "he's not a hater or a lunatic or a
fool."  I beg to differ.  Back when it looked like Romney might
get the nomination, smart atheists like Brian Flemming were
salivating over it as a chance to provoke more discussion about
religious belief in this country.* Is Huckabee really all that
much worse of a target, though? Sure, the lack of foreignness
means its harder to get the ball rolling. But there's a
guarantee that the conversation