Current mood:	tired
Current music:	"Arizona", Scorpions

For the 2 or 3 of you that haven't seen this elsewhere already...
...It's the Huckabee Meme!

"[Some of my opponents] do not want to change the Constitution, but I believe it's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God, and that's what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards."
— Mike Huckabee, campaigning in Michigan.

Right - because theocracy has worked so well historically. It's almost enough to get me to register as a Republican just so I can vote against him in the primaries.

I've been keeping an eye on the Christian Right since the Reagan administration, and this bozo is the Great White Hope for them (so to speak). Bush is seen as a cynical sellout, who sold himself as a God-fearing, Pro-Life, Anti-Gay candidate - and then pretty much ignored Christian Right issues in favor of an ill-advised military adventure, surfacing to promote the Defense of Marriage Act briefly, then getting back to squandering the GDP. Most of the other Republican candidates seem to be viewed with equal measures of suspicion, Giuliani for not being enough of a fascist and Romney for being the wrong sort of right-wing religious wackjob.

Look, we've already had too many presidents lately who cultivated an affable, personable air - Bush II, Clinton, Bush I (though he wasn't that good at it), Reagan, Carter. It's to the point of making me nostalgic for the Nixon administration - and never thought that would happen. Can we just please elect someone who appears to have some functioning brain cells for once this century?