This article about Huckabee’s position on Palestine is also worth reading.

Huckabee’s religion seems to have a populist streak, and some statements he has made suggest that his experience has provided him with a certain sensitivity that seems to have been sorely lacking in other fundamentalist Christian leaders (Pat Robertson, Franklin Graham, and the late Jerry Falwell come to mind). At the same time, there are some troubling questions about some of Huckabee’s actions when he was Governor of Arkansas. Frankly, I don’t know enough about him, don’t have enough information, to have what I think of as a well-informed opinion about him and his abilitites. So, as far as I am concerned, whether Huckabee is one of those ambitous and unscrupulous types who would use ignorance and emotion to attempt to manipulate people for political purposes is a question that does not yet have an answer.

I have to say that I was definitely disappointed (but not especially surprised) by the way one of Huckabee’s senior staffers, who declined to give his name when I asked, last Monday attempted (unsuccessfully) to verbally and then to physically intimidate a non-violent anti-war activist who was standing next to a Christmas tree in Huckabee’s campaign headquarters and holding one end of a banner that asked, “Who Would Jesus Bomb?” At the very least, the staffer’s bullying tactics seemed to me to be especially impolitic and remarkably counterproductive in that they undercut the image that Huckabee seems to be attempting to project.

I did not see Huckabee that day. He was not present during the protest. But to some extent his staff’s actions do reflect who he is and what he is about.