Mike Huckabee - Still a Mentalist.

Ah, Mike Huckabee – it’s been a while since you last crossed my mind. I assumed your political career was over – mainly because you were beaten to the Republican nomination by a grumpy old man whose main selling point was that he was saner than you. But no. You’re still out there, talking terrifying shite.

Here’s the latest quote from one of the US’s favourite bible-bashing political nut-jobs:

I almost wish that there would be, like, a simultaneous telecast, and all Americans would be forced — forced at gunpoint no less — to listen to every David Barton message, and I think our country would be better for it. I wish it’d happen.

David Barton is, in case you were wondering, a fellow Christian fundamentalist. And the apparently delusional Huckabee thinks his fellow citizens should be forced at the barrel of a gun to listen to the fundamentalist toss.

Of course, Huckabee being Huckabee does this with a smile on his face, and makes his extraordinarily illiberal suggestion in a lighthearted way. Which is precisely what makes him so dangerous. He puts a genial face on Christian fundamentalism: he makes his brand of extremism look very, very friendly. Surely he can’t be a threat? I mean, he’s very folksy. Even when he is talking about using the threat of violence to make the people he aspires to rule to listen to his own particular brand of ethereal bullshit.

If Huckabee does run, I hope that this quote is repeated over and over again, so every moderate Republican can see and understand that Huckabee is a dangerous loon.