Sources of Unconventional Sagacity

It’s the day after the Iowa caucuses, and the day before the Wyoming Republican presidential conventions. The Wyoming conventions are something like the Iowa caucuses, determining which candidates the Wyoming Republicans will send delegates to the national convention for. Wyoming’s Democrats will have their presidential election later, so the big energy in the 2008 presidential election today is with the Republicans.

Will Mike Huckabee be able to continue his success onward into Wyoming? No polls have been conducted - a big slight to those in Wyoming, but that’s what you get for placing your state’s equivalent of a primary on a Saturday, I guess. Well, I’ll be paying attention, and my guess is that you will be too.

Let’s look at the substance of Huckabee’s attempt to stay at the head of the Republican pack, then. There are significant reasons to be very concerned about Mike Huckabee’s political ascendence:

1. Huckabee has a long history of corruption as governor of Arkansas, receiving big gifts and using his power to help his family evade legal investigations.
2. Huckabee favored starting the war against Iraq, a blunder that will go down in history as one of America’s worst ever.
3. Huckabee has proposed placing Americans infected with HIV into detention centers.
4. Huckabee has expressed support for converting America’s democracy into a Christian theocracy, with the Ten Commandments posted in the White House and a Christian Heritage Day as a national holiday.
5. Huckabee’s grasp of foreign policy has proved to be exceptionally weak, as he targets ethnic groups for profiling at the nation’s borders, talking about terrorist plots by those groups that only exist in his imagination.
6. He’s declared support for people on strike, and then crossed the same picket lines just hours later.
7. Huckabee not only wants to overturn Roe v. Wade, he wants to forbid state governments from passing laws legalizing abortion.

The list of Huckabee’s problems goes on and on and on, but Republican voters don’t seem to care much. They appear just to want a right wing ideologue, and someone who panders to religious zealotry to boot. Huckabee fits the bill to a T.

As bad as George W. Bush has been, a President Mike Huckabee would likely be even worse.

That’s why the word of the day today is: Yuckabee.

Yuckabee is a simple expression of the revulsion provoked among sane Americans when facing Mike Huckabee’s crude extremism. Think of it this way: Yuckabee is that nauseous feeling you get whenever you hear Mike Huckabee speak. You’ve always known the feeling. Now you know the name for it.

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