Is Mike Huckabee a drooling retard or just a whore?

Answer: whore. To be fair almost all politicians are, by the nature of their trade and the fickle votes and pocket books of their countrymen, whores. Huckabee knows that unless he can get the American Evangelical movers and shakers behind his campaign in the form of grassroots exposure and fundraising than his campaign is over. He needs to convince the Fundie Farm that he has a chance and deserves their support. The problem is that in order to have a chance he first needs to get that support. This causes him to wave the Fundie flag and say crazy, confused and foolish shit like the following in order to get their attention:

(From CNN)
Speaking before a gathering of Christian conservative voters, GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee said legalized abortion in the United States was a holocaust."Sometimes we talk about why we're importing so many people in our workforce," the former Arkansas governor said. "It might be for the last 35 years, we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in our workforce had we not had the holocaust of liberalized abortion under a flawed Supreme Court ruling in 1973."Huckabee also spoke adamantly of the need for conservative lawmakers to show no compromise on fighting for a constitutional amendment that defines marriage between a man and a woman. "I'm very tired of hearing people who are unwilling to change the constitution, but seem more than willing to change the holy word of God as it relates to the definition of marriage," he said.Huckabee, spoke before the Family Research Council's Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C. Saturday.

Now harkening abortion to a "holocaust" and the legal institution of marriage as some sort of supernatural bonding of souls (those of the same gender lack a certain adhesive celestial quality it would seem) is nothing new but totally going off the deep end to pander to the irrational xenophobia and fear of outsourcing of the lowest common denominator of American society is a pretty sad place to be. If you're going to play on people's ignorance and bigotry at least try to make some sense while you're doing it. You know, like Reagan did. Huckabee has pretty much managed to make all of the following statements:

1.)There are more jobs than people in the United States
2.)Filling undesirable jobs with immigrants is a bad thing.
2.)The labor pool is shrinking.
3.)More people in the U.S. would be advantageous, as long as they aren't Mexicans.
4.)Abortion is to blame illegal immigration.

And this guy is running for President of the United States? The funny thing is every single one of the above statements, with the exception of the first, is wrong. Not debatable or even spinable, simply flat out, laughably wrong. I understand that when you are following on the heels of a President as bad as George W. Bush that you have to dig a little. Bush hurt his party so badly that this guy who was by most measures a good Governor (Executive experience), popular and a shoe in for the millions of white Evangelicals and so called "value voters" in this country has to get on his knees and beg. Sure, his name is Huckabee and that hurts but still, come on.