I am glad that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have both rejected and denounced agents of intolerance like Louis Farrakhan.

But now McCain flies down to Texas to get the support of a man that hates Catholics and called the Catholic Church a "great whore" and the "anti-christ". McCain's friend Hagee also supports Israel because he is looking forward to a world war that he has envisioned from the Book of Revelations.

He is supporting McCain to help end the world.

But yet some race baiter like Mongo wants to talk about Louis Farrakhan a man that has been rejected and denounced?

Why not talk about how Hagee thinks the Jews were being punished by God for their mistakes during the holocaust?

Why not talk about how Hagee thinks New Orleans was destroyed by God because they were going to have a Gay Rights parade?

I know McCain doesn't agree with this trash but why not be as strong as Barack or Hillary? Is he so desperate as to need his support?

What does it say about McCain that he won't do the same to his insane followers?

He wants Israel to attack Iran because that will unite the Arab countries ( Iran is not a majority Arab country) with Russia to attack Israel.

So, his support for Israel is about causing a massive attack on them. Of course this is to help bring about the end of the world.

Why can't we have the old McCain back the one that denounced agents of intolerance on the left and the right? Old McCain wouldn't be caught with this guy thanking him for his support.

McCain should follow Barack Obama's lead when he rejected and denounced support from people like this extremist.

Huckabee, like many preachers, has earned his living by being a professional speaker. However, his smile and smooth delivery is not enough to disguise the fact that he is either blissfully ignorant or intellectually dishonest in his disdain for the scientific method and development of technology.

If McCain wants to throw away the votes of moderates who might be willing to consider voting for him, all he has to do is pick someone like Huckabee who believes every truth, solution or insight of this reality can only be found in the pages of his scriptures - as he interprets it.

None of the other Republican primary candidates for President would help him either. He needs someone who is more widely respected than any of these pretenders.

Is it irony or just ignorance that fear of terrorism weighs greater in modern politics than the fear of intolerance?

On the one hand, I personally have a very small chance of losing my life to some half-crazy, ideologically-driven, fundamentalist sycophant. On the other, I have a very good chance of losing what civility, honor and respect is left in my society. I would rather be dead than live without honorable means.

None of us chooses our parents or the country we are born into but we sure as hell have the right to choose the people who represent the society we happen to be members of. I have no issue with Huckabee's beliefs but he apparently would have issues with mine. He doesnt have that right or privilege.

McCain isnt off the hook on this sentiment either trying to scare people as he is. The irony is the world might be a little safer if his middle name were Hussein and he lived up to its' meaning - blessed child.

It is my humble prediction that Huckabee will continue in the Republican race for President until the end if for no other reason than he's been bitten by the Presidential bug. Further, he, like us all, crave Andy Warhol's 15-minutes of TV fame. (Only in his case, it's a little more like 15 months).

And, Obama isn't the only candidate for Pres who has played-on and keeps playing on the political importance of keeping TV crowds interested. After all, such mesmerizing antics were inherent in the lyrics of a famous song from Jesus Christ Superstar, namely, "...What's the buzz! Tell me what's a happenin.." Admittedly, Hucakbee's crowds are smaller than Obama's, but in this case, for these religiously and socially conservative Republicans, size doesn't matter.

As to all this hub-bub about why its important for candidates to denounce the statements of extremists, consider carefully the wisdom embedded in former Attorney General John Mitchell's famous code-word message to State's-righters and segregationists during Nixon's '68 Presidential campaign. ".Watch what we do more than listen to what we say.." He was, of course, referring to the types of Supreme Court Justices Nixon would actually pick, not the kind that he felt he had to tell the country that he might pick, in order to get elected. See, who says PC is only practiced by the liberal-DEMS?

The hyberbolic rantings of Ministers Farrakhan and Hagee, one a self-selected Muslim and the other a self-selected Christian, are deserving of condemnation by anyone with a thinking mind, open heart and conscientious soul. But what's more important to me is what a candidate for President has done when confronted with hard, moral choices, not what others, who claim to support and endorse him believe in.

I fear, that in the vain-glorious pursuit of "PC-sanitizing" candidates' supporters, and bloggers, too quickly jump on "guilt by association bandwagon," in these matters, so as to pull-down the other guy.

Beware, my fellow Americans, the ghost of Joseph McCarthy. He's still lurking in the political graveyards. In order to exorcise that spirit, I commend to each of you the immortal words of the late, great Edward R.Murrow, "..Good night and Good Luck.." Anon, see the URL below.

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Huckabee will drop out soon as he will not long be able to continue to put gas in his RV. Furthermore, he will eventually realize that far from be amusing as some people found him, he is will soon be seen as committing the number one sin for a candidate - becoming tiresome. He is already irrelevant.

He finally drops out. The speculation begins on who McCain will pick as VP.

My guess is it will be someone younger, with a stronger economic background. Although, he could go with someone with broader appeal, like a Haley Barbour.

While Gov. Haley Barbour could attract the Southern vote and establishment money, his being a former Washington lobbiest would hurt rather than help McCain.

What about Chuck Hagel? Better yet, what about Chuck Norris?

Hagel is anti-war and McCain is running on the war.

Well, there you have it, the perfect balance.