Huckabee: Watch this man

Now that the democratic primary has been whittled down to just two candidates, Clinton and Obama, we can take a closer look at the dark side. When the republican candidates aren't arguing about who will torture more people, drop more bombs in the middle east, or who will attack Iran first, they occasionally say some pretty revealing things.

We all know Romney is part of a crackpot personality cult whose cosmology is only rivaled in oddity by the nutty scientologists, however Baptist preacher Mike Huckabee also believes some blindingly stupid things.

Huckabee says he will re-write the constitution to match the Bible

Huckabee believes in creationism

First, advocating that we re-write the constitution to meet 'god's standards' should immediately cast a shadow so large as to disqualify one from serious political discourse, however this is America, a land where there are enough ill-informed individuals to support a preacher for president. Huckabees comments sound like something spoken a thousand years ago, back when the Christian church was actively murdering anyone with the gall to question Holy Scripture. I would really like to know just how far backwards Huckabee would take us. Stoning homosexuals? Killing children who talk back to their parents? The death penalty for those who convert away from Christianity? Burning the necromancers, pagans, and magicians? Its all there, all advocated within the pages of the Bible. Hell, I can only imagine the plight of atheists under such a system. If history is any gauge of what Huckabee's America would look like, I should be in cold sweat right now. But, I have hope that the rational people in this good country, founded upon secular principals, will send the preacher back where he belongs; the pulpit.

Concerning the creationism video. Huckabee obviously could not be more wrong; he states his beliefs should not have any bearing on his candidacy; however, evolutionary theory underlies all of modern science including biology, genetics, agriculture, medicine and so on. If one 'denies' evolution, they simply cannot make informed decisions about any field of scientific inquiry. A coherent understanding of reality is necessary for all political candidates, especially our president! Imagine the leader of the free world deciding science policy based on the belief that the earth is 6,000 years old and that Jesus is coming back any day now, or policy concerning the middle east, or the environment... its a nightmare.