Huckabee's Horns

The win by Mike Huckabee in the Iowa Republican Primary is a shuddering blow for democracy.

Mr. Huckabee is not only a lightweight by any reasonable measure, he is a hater and an anti-democrat.

Hiding not too far behind that pleasant, local boy, potato head presentation is the narrowest of minds.

This is a man who equates homosexuality with pederasty and bestiality. He speaks of these three as if they are one.

In 2008, he is staunchly against abortion, and proud of it.

He believes in the one true Jesus Christ of the New Testament and has suggested in no uncertain terms that the Mormon, Mitt Romney, is essentially a heretic.

You may say that he is refreshingly principled.

I will say that he doesn't understand that at the heart of democratic ideology is the belief in inclusion, variety, range, differences.

I would call him the most simple-minded Majority-ist. If we are all loving Keanu Reeves and buying SUV's, then that must be what God intended for us.

No tolerance for someone who may walk slower or wear purple or never marry or bear children or revel in pure mathematics, boxing or wildlife management.

It is amazing to see these one-note charlatans draw the rubes into their tents once again. After Nixon, after Bush, you would think somebody in Nebraska has at last come out of his deep sleep.

But no.

Thump the Book. Thrust the Wife and Kids into the front row. Get Chuck Norris, smiling maniacally behind you.

Well maybe I have found religion.

Oh Lord, tell us it isn't so. Send this simpleton, this dangerous lout back to his gin rummy game before we are lost in another war in another remote country. Pray, give this trifler the Majestic Boot.

Let us try, just for moment in time, health care, education, the arts, clean commerce, hope.