Hope is not enough

Bill Kristol started off his new job as a NY Times columnist positing a President Huckabee. Well. The Huckster may be conservative on life and the 2nd amendment but that's about it. As governor, he was a big tax and spender, so he and Barack could coo Kumbaya together on that approach. He also likes to blast the eeevil big corporations and push the class envy theme, (presumably as another excuse to raise taxes, ostensibly on the rich, but we all know it eventually hits the middle class.) Explain to me while a Republican would seek the endorsement of the ultra-liberal NEA in New Hampshire. Another chorus of liberal Kumbaya.

And he is often loose with the truth, by design or pure sloppiness.

Finally, he gives people of faith a bad name by pushing Christianity down our throats--vote for me because I'm a Christian leader. This masks his lack of solid policy proposals, and allows him to escape scrutiny of his record, his donors, and his bloopers by claiming vote for me because I am a good person. Tribune:

Asked by moderator Chris Wallace about a series of foreign policy gaffes, Huckabee replied that he may have made slips of the tongue but "I don't have a slip of my judgment, I don't have a slip of my character, I don't have a slip of the truth."

Well, that's not good enough. Swell final chorus of Kumbaya with the Big O, who pushes Hope along with another smooth-talker from Hope.

Hope is not enough.

UPDATE: WaPo:

WINDHAM, N.H., Jan. 6 -- A pastor from Texas was scheduled to deliver the sermon Sunday at a church here called the Crossing.

But instead this small evangelical congregation heard from a different special guest: Baptist minister and 2008 presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, who delivered a sermon of more than 20 minutes on how to be part of "God's Army" in the middle school cafeteria where the congregation meets.

"When we become believers, it's as if we have signed up to be part of God's Army, to be soldiers for Christ," Huckabee told the enthusiastic audience.