Implosion

http://mobile.nytimes.com/art/128760/19

Unsurprisingly all the candidates are in hyper spin mode talking about why the events in Pakistan mean they are the only person who can lead the US.

Mike Huckabee however seems to have taken the occasion to further demonstrate he has no idea what the fuck he is talking about. While the other candidates spin the implications in the way that helps them - Clinton and McCain talk about experience, Obama judgement, Rudy anti-islam bigotry - Huck has decided the events mean... we need a taller border fence with Mexico?

Once upon a time I used to wonder how a guy could ramble on about the problem of inequality and propose a national sales tax in the same speech. Was the populism a cover for an economic trickster or vis a versa? The reality is he just goes with whatever hair brained scheme pops in his head.

The papers in NH all seem to think Mitt is a huge phoney who must be stopped at all costs. To the NH partisans, I say Huckabee must be stopped at all cost lest we be dupped into a smooth talking looney whose sole allegiance is to whatever divine revelation he is having that day rather than the Constitution and our nation.