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Nobody Hearts Huckabee

Remember how I was floating the possibility of Huckabee as possible contender for the ’08 nomination?  Never mind.  Confronted about his rather pitiful ploy to get around the politician gift ban (he and his wife–slightly famous for their support of covenant marriage–entered themselves in a wedding gift registry to get the gifts for their new move because […]

Remember how I was floating the possibility of Huckabee as possible contender for the ’08 nomination?  Never mind.  Confronted about his rather pitiful ploy to get around the politician gift ban (he and his wife–slightly famous for their support of covenant marriage–entered themselves in a wedding gift registry to get the gifts for their new move because wedding and engagement gifts are excluded from the ban), Huckabee went, well, a little nutty.  The gift registry thing was hardly the end of the world, but Huckabee’s Hastert-like handling of the news reports makes him come off sounding anything but presidential.  Fortunately for him, almost nobody knows who he is, so he may have dodged a bullet here.

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