“My Favorite Nut Job”

By Matt Taibbi (Rolling Stone, November 29th 2007)

Jag har under senaste tiden last massor av artiklar om valet och da sarskilt de som skrivs for Rolling Stone Magazine, min favvotidning har!

Det som ni far lasa har nedan ar glimtar av en artikel om Mike Huckabee. Read and enjoy!

Mike Huckabee is a charming, funny economic populist who seems to genuinely care about the poor. He’s also a full-blown Christian kook.

…Huckabee represents something entirely new - a cross between John Edwards and Jerry Falwell, and ordained Southern Baptist preacher who actually seems to give a shit about the working poor.

But Huckabee is also something else: full-blown nuts, a Christian goofball of the highest order. He believes the Earth may be only 6,000 years old, angrily rejects the evidence that human beings evolved from “primates” and thinks America wouldn’t need so much Mexican labor if we allowed every aborted fetus to grow up and enter the workforce…

He says “We shouldn’t allow a child to live under a bridge or in the back seat of a car” True true! I completely agree, however - how is HE going to achieve that?

…As a governor of Arkansas, he outraged Republicans with his plan to expand health coverage for children, his embrace of refugees from Katarina and his support for subsidized higher education for the children of illegal immegrants…

…”He identifies with ordinary people,” says Max Brantley, editor of the Arkansas Times (one of Huckabee’s most ferocious critics)…

…For all his political waffling in other areas - Huckabee has flip-flopped on a host of earthly political issues, from taxes to local control of school boards - he leaves absolutely no doubt about his commitment to religious wackowood. George Buch and John Ashcroft were religious in a scary way, but the rational among us could always take heart to that, deep down, the Bush administration was more cynical than messianic. But it doesn’t take much exposure to Huckabee to see that this former understudy of a Texas televangelist is deadly serious about the God thing…

…In the first Republican debate in New Hampshire, Huckabee, apparently unaware thet human beings are primates, responded to a question about evolution by saying “if anybody wants to believe that they are the descendants of a primate, they are certainly welcome to do it.”…

He also said ( @ a appearance at the Prestonwood Baptist Church near Dallas)  …”if you’re with Jesus Christ, we know how it turns out in the final moment,” he said ”I’ve read the last chapter in the book, and we do end up winning.” Winning??

He continues …”Being the president isn’t about picking who goes to heaven and who goes to hell” BUT then he says …”I believe Jesus is the way to heaven”…

…”Science changes with every generation and with new discoveries, and God doesn’t,” he says. “So I’ll stick with God if the two are in conflict” Huckabee’s well-documented disdain for science was reflected in the performance of the Arkansas school system when he was governor; one survey gave the state an F for it’s science standards…

…when he talks about religion, he gets weirdly combative and obnixious, often drifting into outright offensiveness…

…He said he would oppose gay marriage “until Moses comes down with two stone tablets from Brokeback Mountain saying he’s changed the rules.” And he recently scored a rare offend trifecta, simultaneously pissing off immigrants, Jews and the pro-choice crowd when he ludicrously claimed that a “hollocaust” of abortions had artificially created a demand of Mexican labor.

Huckabee also has a knack for getting caught with his fingers in the cookie jar. In his first year as governor, Huck used a $60,000 taxpayer fund for personal expenses like dog food, pantyhose and meals at Taco Bell…

…Huckabee has also been accused of paying himself as a consultant to his own senatorial campaign…

…Huckabee is a sincere, ideologically in-tune champion of a massive and frustrated conservative demografic. The fact that he is succeding in spite of his obvious and undisguised lunacy is a testament to the desperation of the voting public, which is so hungry for a candidate who actually responds to its needs that it may be willing to overlook extraordinary levels of kookiness…

…Make no misstake, Huckabee can win this thing. None of his rivals can claim to represent the Christian right. His biggest problem however is money…

…Charm only goes as far if you’re full-bore nuts. Huckabee may be able to get away with saying he’s not a primate, but he’d better nod scream it…

Tro/tyck vad ni vill, men han ar inte mitt val av kandidat i alla fall!!

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