The Unbearable Nuttiness of Mike Huckabee - By P. J. O’Rourke

[DonViejo]

Oh go home, you old fundamentalist fool, before you embarrass the Republicans any more.

“Playing the Hitler card” is an infallible sign that a politician has run out of intelligent, substantive and plausible ways to criticize an opponent. This would be amusing (Mel Brooks made Hitler amusing), except “playing the Hitler card” is also an infallible sign that a politician has run out of amusing ways to criticize an opponent.

So goodbye to you, Mike Huckabee.

Claiming that the President of the United States “will take the Israelis and march them to the door of the oven” is not a cogent critique of the Iran nuclear deal, however bad the deal is. Nor is it an insightful thing to say about the administration that made the bad deal.

And, Mike, it is not a Christian thing to say about Barack Obama.

I’m a Christian too. Maybe I’m not a hard-shell Baptist ordained minister dog-in-the-manger-at-Bethlehem Christian like you are. But I think you could use a refresher course in Christianity.

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[madokie]

1. Thankfully

he'll never step foot in the Oval office. Someone might invite him for some odd reason to visit the WH and that is the only chance he has.

[KG]

2. piss on o'rourke anyway.

[SamKnause]

3. P.J. O'Rourke is a nut also.

Nuts commenting on fellow nuts.

There is not a sane or decent person running for president

under the Republican banner.

It shows how crazy this country is that any one would vote for

these vile, evil, out of touch people.

The brainwashing, manipulation, and propaganda has been 100% successful.

It has been, and will be even more devastating for the this country and the world.

[marble falls]

6. He's a RW nut, too

[SamKnause]

7. I'm aware.

Nuts commenting on nuts.

[Archae]

8. How do you figure O'Rourke is a nut?

I've never read anything by him that sounds kooky, and he is famous for saying "Republicans are convinced government will never work, so they get elected to prove it."

[marble falls]

10. Starting with "Give War a Chance", he freely confesses it.

[Archae]

11. That was a book of humor.

It sounds more like sarcasm than actual advocacy.

[Ichingcarpenter]

12. Never got his humor...since he's rightwing

and voted for Bush both times.

[Scuba]

4. Huckabee will kill every woman in America if it will prevent one abortion.

[Enthusiast]

5. The unbearable nuttiness of the mean spirited Mike Huckabee.

[Enrique]

9. some good lines

I’m a god to my dog. When I say to my dog, “It shall be an abomination unto you to run into the street chasing a squirrel,” what does my dog hear? “Squirrel!”

[Shrike47]

13. O'Rourke is right wing, but even he can see how crazy Huckabee is, and be witty in his derision.

I found his piece both amusing and correct, as far as it went.

[Demeter]

14. Unfortunately, we can't have all the nuts committed for their protection (and ours)

Still, any one who wants to convert the for-profit prisons to hospital-jails for the criminally insane has my permission...

[Gothmog]

15. The Huckster is trying to get the right wing religious part of the base energized

[tavernier]

16. I know. He's like Aunt Midred's

Christmas fruitcake. 90 % nuts!

[Bluenorthwest]

17. PJ is exactly the sort of Republican that gives legitimacy to the Huckabees, where was PJ in 1992

when Huck called for relocation camps for people with HIV and those 'at risk'? Was PJ too busy being a Christian to object to that? Where was he in 2012 when Huckabee defended those relocation camp remarks? Serving his Lord God?