You may not have heard of Mike Huckabee, but he is running for president of the United States of America. Huckabee served as the Governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007. He's a social conservative that served as chairman of the National Governors’ Association and chairman of the Interstate Oil & Gas Compact Commission. He doesn't have much money or name recognition but he just scored a strong second place in the Ames, Iowa Republican Straw Poll. By besting Sen. Sam Brownback, he can expect to take up the banner of anti-women extremists within the Republican Party. It could be enough for him to win the Iowa caucuses and make some waves in the presidential race. Noam Scheiber has some analysis in The New Republic, but the most interesting part was his description of the attitude of the press to Huckabee's strong showing.After listing several quotes of Huckabee's the post ends:
Huckabee is an assault gun loving religious extremist. He's also a nice person that makes friends easily with reporters...kind of like Babe Ruth. It's hard to overstate how inappropriate it is for print journalists to be high-fiving each other over the political success of any politician. But a gay-bashing, woman-hating, assault-rifle toting, religious nutcase? I want names.In addition to all his other extreme views, Huckabee also does not believe in evolution which means he does not respect science and would probably not support a scientific exploration of the human body nor of space.
(edit: fixed my poorly worded sentence...kinda)
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