The only thing that scares me, if he wins the Rep nomination, his populism will draw in many independants. And depending on who the Dem candidate is, he might even draw in some Dems. John Edwards is the only major Dem candidate who can beat him in the populism front.

And no one should ever forget that the entire Dumond thing was predicated on the far right-wings beleif that Clinton railroaded the poor rapist because his victim was a distant relative. And they know Dumond killed at least one woman and they think he murdered a 2nd one, after Huckabee released him.

When it comes to religion, all bets are off. The most intelligent, educated and creative people are likely to state their belief in just about any ludicrous fairy-tale-sounding thing.

Here’s my favorite part of Novak’s paranoid rant:

“The rise of evangelical Christians as the force that blasted the GOP out of minority status during the past generation always contained an inherent danger: What if these new Republican acolytes supported not merely a conventional conservative but one of their own? That has happened with Huckabee, a former Baptist minister educated at Ouachita Baptist University and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. The danger is a serious contender for the nomination who passes the litmus test of social conservatives on abortion, gay marriage and gun control but is far removed from the conservative-libertarian model of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan.”