Reply #2: I saw word of this on HuffPost today. McCain loses to Romney in Michigan [View All]

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even though Romney's a pastiched ninny. Now he's about to lose to Huckabee in South Carolina, and Huckabee's unstable.

There's a palpable violence to the way Huckabee talks, not only in relation to whatever rightwing kook group is backing him with this flag issue, but in general, when he speaks. Huckabee is the authoritarian small man, clever enough to invoke Scripture to advance his distortion of that Scripture, and to do it in a way that is socially and politically divisive.

I almost wrote "divisive and intemperate," but Huckabee's charm, such as it is, is to appear moderate and reasonable while nevertheless advancing an authoritarian agenda. IMO you can't advance an authoritarian agenda without some predisposition to violence.

I think the man is unstable.