Rolling Stone on Huckabee

I know it is petty, but I still have a hard time taking seriously any candidate who shares a name with the movie I Heart Huckabees which was a horrifically-bad film from a couple of years back. Still, Mike "The Other Man from Hope" Huckabee has been steadily gaining in the Republican nominee horse-race, and is wooing the Religious Right as a man who truly can represent their values. For me, however, it has been hard to really get past the "image" that his campaign and the media put out there, and into the real man.

Somehow, Rolling Stone Magazine has been the first to put out a truly balanced piece on the man. (Warning: There are several points of profanity in the piece, so if you are sensitive to such things, don't click thru.) It lays out both his strengths (populism, likability, appeal to both the religious rich and religious poor) and weaknesses (he is a true-believer in born-again Christianity, he accepts and expects lots of "gifts" from friends, and can be sensitive and petty at times).

I am still not sure whether I would vote for the man, but I feel like I would now understand better what I'd be "buying".