Huckabee's got a hotline to God

Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, a man with a popular FOX TV show and who has been on the periphery of becoming a presidential or vice-presidential candidate for years, had this so say about the Connecticut slayings:

"We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools. Should we be so surprised that schools would become a place of carnage?"

This is one reason why I have disdain for religion. Christianity, the religion I was raised around, has never made one iota of sense to me because it's based on a whole lot of magic thinking like this, even if it has—as all religions do—some appealing and sensible components.

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Mike Huckabee thinks rape is really, like, BAD and stuff, but hey, some great folks have been the product of forcible rape, so... (So...what?)

Also, the doc behind Todd Akin's outrageous claims that women being "legit" raped don't get pregnant was an enthusiastic Mitt Romney surrogate in 2007.

Face it: This insane rape-talk is NOT out of the mainstream of the Republican Party, it's just impolite to say it out loud at such an inopportune moment before an election.

Mitt Romney now kowtows to the right by claiming he would support a Constitutional amendment stating that life begins at conception even though when he ran for the Senate in Massachusetts in '94 he was giving unabashed support to Roe v. Wade. "You won't see me wavering on that." Uh, yeah, right.

Once the right gets over its polygamous lust for a series of nutjobs (Bachmann's up! No, Trump! No, Perry! Now Cain!), it will settle on this hack, thinking him the best bet vs. Obama. And right now, he looks like the best bet vs. Obama. But he won't look like a good bet once it's one-on-one.

So...if Huckabee is not running, who are you guesses as to who will win the Republican nomination? Because I would bet on Huckabee as his or her running mate.

Just in case you were losing track.

Via Joe.My.God.: Mike Huckabee—who has as good a shot as any other Republican contender of becoming the nominee in '12—is against gays marrying, parenting and serving in the military. So we should basically just do our jobs and keep our heads down...except, well, he's also against legislation to make it illegal to fire us for being gay...

I don't agree with Peggy Noonan too often, but I have to agree when she rips Sarah Palin a new asshole over Palin's assertion that her doing a reality TV show in any way relates to Ronald Reagan's Hollywood career:

"Excuse me, but this was ignorant even for Mrs. Palin. Reagan people quietly flipped their lids, but I'll voice their consternation to make a larger point. Ronald Reagan was an artist who willed himself into leadership as president of a major American labor union (Screen Actors Guild, seven terms, 1947-59.) He led that union successfully through major upheavals (the Hollywood communist wars, labor-management struggles); discovered and honed his ability to speak persuasively by talking to workers on the line at General Electric for eight years; was elected to and completed two full terms as governor of California; challenged and almost unseated an incumbent president of his own party; and went on to popularize modern conservative political philosophy without the help of a conservative infrastructure. Then he was elected president."

Palin's too much of a dolt to take the point, but she better get ready because the long knives are coming out for her now that she is the (incorrectly) presumptive front-runner for the Republican nomination in '12. I think Mitt Romney or Mike Huckabee will ultimately win the nomination, and I'm willing to bet two things here and now: Either of them has a female running mate, and that female is NOT Sarah Palin but instead someone more broadly accepted like Condoleeza Rice (bonus points for not being white).

When the United States can be so angry with incumbents (many of whom happen to be Democrats, thanks to the previous backlashes against the horrendous missteps made and crimes committed by Republicans before them) that its voters seem in the mood to toss them all out, handing control back to the right wing, it's hard for me to think of our country's citizens as very bright. People don't seem to overly care about the most partisan issues as long as they are able to live in an unspectacular but contented state; when the going gets tough, they want to throw the bums out, even if the bigger bums are the alternative.

For example, it baffles me that someone like Mike Huckabee is considered a nice guy and a mainstream Republican and is on the short list of possible Republican presidential (or vice-presidential, more likely) contenders in '12, and yet he will say things like the following regarding gay people adopting: