Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Huckabee. Playing Catch Up.
So what's this guy's story?
Uh let's see.. Huckabee. Mike Huckabee. Governor of Arkansas, lost a ton of weight recently, probably surgical. Running for the Republican nomination on a far right faith train. He had some luck pulling in the evangelical base, hell most of the true blue religious right likes what he has to say.
Which is what?
The usual. Abortion is bad, gays are bad, illegal hispanics are bad, science is bad. Oh wait, he also wants to repeal the IRS, so that's new.
What do you mean, "science is bad"?
Well, he doesn't believe in evolution. Like, at all. Which means he doesn't believe, or understand, much of anything involving biology or geology or well, basically science in general.
Wow.
Exactly. And aside from that, he's pretty much one note. Everyone who meets him likes him, apparently a very likable guy. But he doesn't seem to have an idea that didn't come from sunday school. Throw in a couple of delinquent grown sons with multiple arrests and-
Oh wait, that dog thing!
Yeah. His son was caught hanging a stray dog while he was at a boy scout camp. Huckabee waved his Governor's magic wand and made it go away.
That's very uplifting, gets me right here. Ok, I'm getting hungry. So what does all that mean for him? Where do we put him in the race? I need a starting point for the odds.
Meh. he's probably out already. But put 100 to 1 on him. If someone wants to throw their money away, I'm happy to take it.
Ok, 100 to 1 it is.
