Another thing that I discovered about Huckabee since posting my rant is that he's apparently the most prolific death-sentencer among the slate of Repugnican candidates. It seems that, as Governor of Arkansas, he and the Lord just partied all night long as they condemned folk to death and made sure the penalty was carried out. What hardons he must have had.

Although the vast majority of US journalists are too intensely stupid to realize it, this glorification of capital punishment blows yet another hole in Huckabee's supposed Christian credentials. One can argue indefinitely about the precise meaning of the Hebrew original for "Thou shalt not kill",* but Christ was pretty explicit in a later testament: only those without sin can justify practising the death penalty, which means none of us can. Mike Huckabee clearly considers he has a more direct line to God than Christ did.

There's a technical name for that particular blasphemy; offhand I can't remember it.