Well, the Iowans did their thing yesterday and now the rest of the run up continues plodding along. That the Democrats came in the order they did isn’t entirely surprising, and those pieces will land where they will over the next several months. But on the Republican side, Huckabee? WTF? Iowa is a largely Lutheran state, what the heck are they thinking in advancing a hellfire and brimstone Baptist towards the oval office.

On the one hand if he did wind up being the Republican candidate it’s partially be a good thing in that someone that legislates from the pulpit as much as he does would bring out the opposition in droves. Now I’m actually not one to get all hand-wringing about prayers at graduation, or christmas programs (either community or school), etc. But the notion of someone who actually comes up with legislation because it says so in the bible is just mortifyingly scary.

After a fashion, it’s even more annoying because I remember from my American Gov’t classes in high school, and we’re going over the various elements of the different platforms (now this was in the mid 80s, I’ll mention), and the Republicans made more sense to me, better free market focus, etc. Nowhere do I ever recall that it said government should be out of the boardroom but in the bedroom (or in the mandating morality). We won’t even get into the whole rant on what the constitution laid out as far as what the federal government could regulate/legislate and then “…everything else not herein expressly mentioned shall be the pervue of the states.”

Anyway, can any of my Red State friends out there (or even local Republicans) give any kind of position where someone as radical as Mr. Huck would be a good idea?