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http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NjJiZDBjZWFiNmFmY2M1NDg2ZjM1Y2YwZjdjNzliMDg=
People like Rich Lowry have been playing the Christian Right for suckers for more than 25 years -- milking them for votes while outsourcing their jobs, looting their pensions, turning their mortgages and their kids' student loans over to loan sharks -- the kids, that is, they don't send to Iraq -- and giving them nothing in return but rhetoric, Wal-Marts, and a few Supreme Court justices who, when push comes to shove, will vote with the Big Money over their "values" every damn time. They've pandered to them with anti-gay bigotry and demands to deny women the right to control their own bodies, but now putting a preacher at the top of the ticket would be "overdoing it." Ha ha.
Mike Huckabee's supporters and the media say he seems so well-grounded and is "comfortable in his own skin" -- kind of like the way they sold us George Bush. Oh, he's grounded all right -- in the 19th Century. His views on evolution, of course, but also his belief that women should "submit" to their husbands, and until called on it, his desire to quarantine AIDS patients. Then there's the matter of his pressuring his parole board, for political reasons, to let loose a rapist, who then went on to murder someone else. Of course he's unelectable! And not even the Republicans would have the nerve to run him as the "Man from Hope."
So the rubes are about to take over the party. They tried peddling them the millionaire lobbyist, Hollywood faux rube in Thompson, but he turned out to be a dud, if not dead, and now they're going for the real thing. Sweet.
