Understanding the Huckabee Zeitgeist - Democratic Underground

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Sun Feb-10-08 12:02 PM
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Understanding the Huckabee Zeitgeist

It's not uncommon to see liberal bloggers and progressive commentators and radio talkers (what few of us there are) discussing Mike Huckabee in terms of his loony fundamentalism or his slippery Repiglickinism. Even so, what we've been talking about hasn't caught on with the MSM, who seem to have the same willingness to treat him as "legitimate" as a congregant at a faith healing.

Radical Fundamentalist Cleric Mike Huckabee has been largely protected by the MSM by virtue of its unwillingness to point out that Hucksterbee was, is and will remain an ordained southern baptist preacher Thusfar, not one political correspondent has the temerity to address Hucksterbee as what he is: Reverend Huckabee. Not one. Yet, far more than being an ex-governor, it's what Huckabee is, all the way to the core of his carnival barker soul. He trained at the feet of James Robison (whose flagging ministry was saved, incidentally, by Reverend Moon) and has the current, highly financially significant, unflagging support of fellow snake-handler Kenneth Copeland.

Huck said this past week that he's waiting for McCain to have his "Macaca Moment." What he really meant is that he's waiting for McCain to drop the hell dead. Hucksterbee's political mythos centers on the unlikelihood of his ever achieving power. That myth was forged in Arkansas, where he stumbled into the Lt. Governor's seat, only to be elevated to the Executive's Office by virtue of the indictment of Jim Guy Tucker during the Clinton witchhunt. That's the "miracle" angle he's working this time, too.

Queried by Bob Schieffer this morning on "Face the Press This Week," (the Sunday babbling bobblehead shows are all the same to me) Radical Fundamentalist Cleric Mike Huckabee refused to say that he wouldn't accept the Veep nod from Insane McCain. That speaks volumes. While complaining that he was in the race to win, and that he didn't think Bomber John would offer him the slot, he couldn't quite get to "No" when pressed by Scheiffer to state categorically that he had no interest in the V-P slot on the ticket. Should McCain not have the common decency to hear the voice of Gawd and drop dead before the convention; and should Hucksterbee take Virginia and Texas, he will have shown McCain that he's the sine qua non to McCain's presidential ambitions. Factor in James Dobson's recent endorsement of Hucksterbee (in fundie circles, akin to a Catholic being endorsed by the Pope) and McCain has a front row seat to watch the unseen hand writing upon the wall, and having writ, moving on if McCain doesn't do as the Radical Fundamentalists have told him.

That's the arc of Hucksterbee's ambition: make himself indispensable to McInsaneCain by dint of his ability to deliver the snake-handling, strychnine-drinking, floor-rolling, tongue-speaking fundies who will neutralize Obama's ability to get out the African American vote or Clinton's ability to mobilize women, get the Veep nod, get into office and immediately start praying for Gawd to call Blessed Bomber John home. All that time on his knees seemed to get the job done when Tucker got taken out in Arkansas. Why shouldn't he presume the ol' magic will work again?

At this point, McCain has at least a 50-50 chance of reaching the White House. If he does so with Huckabee as his Vice-president, it's 60-40 Huckabee's in the Oval Office inside of two years. If John McCain reaches the White House (and that possibility is terrifyingly real at this moment in time), his greatest threat won't come from a Democratic Congress (Ha!) or from some freakishly tall Arab in a cave ten thousand miles away. If McCain selects Huckabee, were I McCain, my next selection would be someone to taste my food. Mike Huckabee is that most venomous of southern snakes. He's a cottonmouth, and any good ol' boy can tell you: they're climbers.

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