Please

Amazing! I was just reading an article in the Economist about Mike Huckabee, the latest Republican to catch the eye of the party hopeful. Ya know what? We have to read everything these people say! We have to become informed! We have to be INTELLIGENT voters this time! Right now these candidates are telling you anything you want to hear. Anything. It’s scary…

For instance; Huckabee can give you hours and hours of 10 second sound bites that will make you think he’s the answer to your Republican dreams. He’s folksy, he’s fit and he even plays rock and roll on his own guitar! He’s a Baptist minister and so he can be as pious as anyone. More! He even sweats ‘family values’. You wish he lived next door to you! I could go on and on, but I won’t. Huckabee is a huckster. He doesn’t have a clue as to how the real world operates and he isn’t interested in learning either.

“…He rouses nativist crowds by fretting that America cannot be secure unless it is self-sufficient in food, energy and military hardware. “I don't want to see our food come from China, our oil come from Saudi Arabia and our manufacturing come from Europe and Asia,” he says. “There is so much foolishness in that one sentence it is hard to unpack,” comments Rich Lowry, a conservative columnist. America hardly imports any food from China. Mr Huckabee's promise of energy independence within 10 years is impossible. And cheap imports benefit precisely the cash-strapped folk Mr Huckabee purports to champion.”

We couldn’t do any of those things 50 years ago and we certainly can’t do them today. And we need candidates that know that. Please.