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Now that the Florida primaries are complete, Mike Huckabee came in fourth place. This is surprising to me, given all the hoopla with the viral-creationism that is infecting a significant amount of school boards in the state. McCain won first place, and as I showed in my Chart of the Candidates, he is a evolution-non-denier.

So what do we take from this? It seems that the voting arm of the conservatives doesn’t quite match the infestations in the aforementioned school boards. Mike Huckabee is the candidate for the anti-science crowd. McCain would be anathema. However, Huckabee did quite poorly, just above the ignoramus Ron Paul (whose only redeeming quality is his opposition to the “war”).

So perhaps there is some glimmer of hope here. When these school boards come back for re-election, the viral-creationists may not fare as well now that they have outed themselves for the willfully ignorant anti-science cretins that they are. The electorate voted these people in for other reasons, and will now take them out.

It is a dream I have. (apologies to Excalibur)

Oh, and here is another Huckabee video for your entertainment (thanks to Pharyngula):

Thanks to Pharyngula for this bit:

“I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution,” Huckabee told a Michigan audience on Monday. “But I believe it’s a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living god. And that’s what we need to do — to amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards rather than try to change God’s standards so it lines up with some contemporary view.“

Emphasis mine.

Go Huckster Go! The closer we get to election time, and the more opportunity he has to opening his pious fraud of a pie hole, the more juicy tidbits of delusional babbling we are going to get. Almost like he and Ron Paul are in a race for the Worst Campaign Ever award. Oh Joy!

Geist further noted of Huckabee that if “someone without his charm,” said that, “he’d be dismissed as a crackpot, but he’s Mike Huckabee and he’s bascially [sic] the front-runner.”

That’s fucking sad. Man, it will be amazing to see how the GOP power brokers try to get rid of this buffoon. Get your popcorn ready!

In yet another feat of coolness, Huckabee, as his last act as Gubner of Ar-kansas, pardons Keith Richards.

Yes, that Keith Richards

Apparently, Mr. Richards had a 32 year old outstanding traffic violation.

“They played a concert while I was governor, and I was invited backstage to meet the band. I’m having this conversation with Keith, and he’s telling me that he’d been in Arkansas before. And I said, ‘Keith, I can pardon you and get that off your record. You can have a clean start in Arkansas.’”

I wonder if Huckabee witnessed to the Stones at this great opportunity?  What a coup it could have been if he had converted the Rolling Stones!  His election would be have been guaranteed!

If he didn’t, shouldn’t the evangelicals who support him admonish him? Didn’t Jesus command this?  Then again, Jesus said a lot of things the evangelicals don’t follow and don’t like to hear = like giving up everything to follow the religion (including friends and family), selling all possessions, helping the dirty peoplepoor and sick.  You know, details…details…