That's Got to Sting

George Will on this election’s Populist Twins:

According to [John] Edwards, the North Carolina of his youth resembled Chechnya today — "I had to fight to survive. I mean really. Literally." [Mike] Huckabee, a compound of Uriah Heep, Elmer Gantry and Richard Nixon, preens about his humble background: "In my family, ‘summer’ was never a verb." Nixon, who maundered about his parents’ privations and his wife’s cloth coat, followed Lyndon Johnson, another miscast president whose festering resentments and status anxieties colored his conduct of office. Here we go again?

Huckabee fancies himself persecuted by the Republican "establishment," a creature already negligible by 1964, when it failed to stop Barry Goldwater’s nomination. The establishment’s voice, the New York Herald Tribune, expired in 1966. Huckabee says that "only one explanation" fits his Iowa success "and it’s not a human one. It’s the same power that helped a little boy with two fish and five loaves feed a crowd of 5,000 people." God so loves Huckabee’s politics that He worked a Midwest miracle on his behalf? Should someone so delusional control nuclear weapons?

I think Will is being far too kind.

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