Oh, and at http://www.motherjones.com:80/washington_dispatch/2007/12/huckabee-faith-baptist-pastor-sermons.html there's a fine David Corn/Jonathan Stein piece on Huckabee's gleeful mixing of faith and politics that includes this gem:

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Huckabee has indeed mixed religion with policy previously. In 1997, when he was governor, he answered a question about capital punishment during a call-in show:

Interestingly enough, if there was ever an occasion for someone to have argued against the death penalty, I think Jesus could have done so on the cross and said, "This is an unjust punishment and I deserve clemency."

Huckabee's argument: since Jesus didn't say that, according to the New Testament, capital punishment is fine.

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One weeps that such childish arguments as Huckabee's should find so many credulous adult listeners as they evidently do.