HUCKABEE MIGHT MAKE A GOOD DIET CONSULTANT BUT HE'S CERTAINLY NOT FIT TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES-- OR EVEN THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE

There are a lot of reasons why Mike Huckabee has been getting miserable notices on the campaign trail-- not just from Democrats, but from Republicans as well. Many Republicans dislike him because of his quasi-populist policies. "Is this a Republican or some kind of John Edwards wanna be?" one GOP Insider fumed a few days ago. John Edwards he's not. But he does try to address concerns of some Americans who are not making 6 figure annual incomes. That's odd for a Republican. Unfortunately, he doesn't address them from an informed or even a helpful perspective.

A few days ago he blurted out what everyone has been waiting for him to say-- that we should make the Constitution conform to God's will. That's like Sharia law and it is certainly not what a consensus of Americans want, not even Republican Americans (at least not Republicans outside of the most backward of Deep South precincts). The Huckster tried laughing it off when he got called on it and said he just meant he was anti-gay, not like he really wanted everyone to have to pay tithes. Oh... whew; let me change my party registration.

Today the Moonie Times reports that Huckabee, whose nomination chances has been badly hurt because of his moderately pro-immigrant policies while he was governor of Arkansas, did the gigantic flip flop and jumped on the moribund and rotted-out, largely discredited Tancredo bandwagon: SEND ALL ILLEGAL ALIENS HOME.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee yesterday continued to move to the right on immigration during this year's presidential campaign, signing a pledge to enforce immigration laws and to make all illegal aliens go home.

The pledge, offered by immigration control advocacy group Numbers USA, commits Mr. Huckabee to oppose a new path to citizenship for current illegal aliens and to cut the number of illegal aliens already in the country through attrition by law enforcement-- something Mr. Huckabee said he will achieve through his nine-point immigration plan.

The Huckster calls his plan "fair and reasonable." It makes me ashamed that a supposedly mainstream American politician who has gone as far as Huckabee-- after all, he was a governor-- would pander so blatantly to divisiveness, raw and hatred and fear and political expediency to dig up a few more votes in the state that started the Civil War. This is part of Huckabee's war against McCain-- but it is also about the lives and well-being of millions of our friends and neighbors. Huckabee and the Republican party should be ashamed. They're not and they won't be.


UPDATE: THE HUCKSTER IN HIS OWN WORDS

You might find his interview with religionist-right outfit Beliefnet... enlightening. For a supposed Buy Bull scholar, though, Huck doesn't know what the hell he's talking about. I wouldn't go to this guy's church let alone want to see him anywhere near the White House! And I'm not alone. Even hardcore Republicans say they would rather see Hillary get into the White House than vote for someone like The Huckster. And the day after his change the Constitution outburst, traditional Republicans started getting scared. Lisa Schiffren, a GOP propaganda specialist spoke for many Establishment conservatives when she bitched that "Mike Huckabee is going to force those of us who have wanted more religion in the town square to reexamine the merits of strict separation of church and state. He is the best advertisement ever for the ACLU."