Huckabee's Warning

Former GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee warns his fellow Republicans that any attempt to demonize the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama would be "a fatal mistake." The former Arkansas governor noted that with Obama's candidacy the country was getting "to a point where we did not see his color but we truly saw his charisma, his message and what he brought to the campaign trail.When people are really hurting — and they are right now — they're not looking at a person's race." This is a remarkable statement by a member of a political party whose success over the last 40 years has been based primarily on exploiting racial divisions. For asking the Republican Party to refrain from demonizing the opposition is akin to them relinquishing one of the twin pillars - scaring the shit out of Americans over the next terrorist attack being the other - from its standard playbook, so fashioned by Karl Rove in engineering George W. Bush victories in 2000 and 2004.