The Pendragon's Hall

This primary season is getting frustrating. Mike Huckabee joins a swelling list of candidates the Pendragon can simply not stomach. While claiming to be the perfect Christian conservative, Huckabee is simply not consistent. He is perfectly willing to open the borders to everyone (which makes him weak on two important issues: immigration and national security). Huckabee also represents the resurgence of selfish isolationist republicanism best embodied by the 1920s not the 1980s. He has accused Bush of "arrogant bunker mentality," certainly not a conservative position. Despite his anti-sodomy rhetoric, he publicly declared as governor of Arkansas that he agreed with a decision in which the Supreme Court struck down anti-sodomy laws enacted by the states because he thought each state should make their own decision. How very Stephen Douglas of him. And guess what? Douglas was a Democrat. So why does this blend of Bill Clinton's slick salesmanship and Jimmy Carter's preachy blandness deserve to carry the standard of Lincoln's party? The Pendragon sincerely hopes Americans won't be taken in again by a trickster from Hope, Arkansas.

And if anyone is keeping track, this is the current list of not-until-Hell-freezes-over candidates: Hillary Clinton, Rudy Giuliani, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Mike Huckabee, Ron Paul, Fred Thompson, Tom Tancredo and Dennis Kucinich. The possibilities are only: Mitt Romney, John McCain, Bill Richardson, Joe Biden and Alan Keyes (who apparently is running).