I Fear Huckabee

Candidate for President Mike Huckabee (that sentence makes me want to vomit) was able to show his anti-immigrant bigotry in his response to questions about the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

Because (as his own campaign has said) he has no experience with any kind of foreign policy, Huckabee turned the opportunity into a chance to bash immigrants and wear his bigotry on his sleeve. He said that in light of Bhutto's death, the US should, “have an immediate, very clear monitoring of our border, and particularly to make sure, if there’s any unusual activity of Pakistanis coming into the country."

Support for Huckabee has been soaring in the polls (and among the most wacky of the celebrity endorsers). This terrifies me. I'd long thought that if we got Bush and his buddies out of office, things couldn't possibly get worse. I never even thought we'd get someone as bad or worse!

Comments

[Zoe]

I heard on CNN that people really get turned off when he is referred to as "Minister." Minister Huckabee is dangerous. The only good news about him is he may be really easy to defeat!