Oh No! It's Huckabee!

I don't like Mike Huckabee and it's not because I have antipathy for politicians from the great state of Arkansas, although I can't quite shake that either. No, I don't like him because he reminds me of another politician who I really, really don't like: Jimmy Carter.

Jimmy Carter wore his folksy, unforgiving morality on his sleeve disguised as Christianity when it was just a method to intimidate people of lesser moral stature (anyone who disagreed with him). Like Carter, Huckabee loves government solutions. The government can make everything better, he believes. That stands in stark contrast to the considerable evidence to the contrary.

Huckabee can't win against Hillary. I haven't read polls to that affect, but I feel it in my bones. He won't play on the Left and Right coast. He'll bother women. Men won't find him manly enough. He's the one Republican that makes Hillary look even more butch.

My brother said, "Iowans are idiots." Maybe. But maybe, the other Republican candidates are to blame. Huckabee is affable and unapologetically socially conservative. The other leaders would do well to take note.

Maybe Giuliani and Thompson's marriages matter more than I believe. Maybe Giuliani's waffling on gun rights and abortion will eliminate him by the Republicans. Maybe Americans are more suspicious of Romney's Mormonism than I believe.

If all this leaves Huckabee the Republican candidate, then I think we'll have Hillary Clinton for president.