Slouch Takes Huckabee Down

We're sending out several thousand raspberries in the general direction of Mike Huckabee on this fair day, for his boneheaded, botched "joke" about Obama facing gunfire backstage at the NRA convention. What a thing to have on the tip of his tongue!

Way to go, Mike. That's one of the fastest acts of political suicide I can remember! If you had any aspirations for the Republican nomination for vice president, common sense tells us you just gave it up. (Of course, knowing the Republicans -- a sadder group of airheads, boneheads, and morons we can barely imagine -- they might retire McCain and run you after all. But even they probably still have at least three functioning brain cells and would have to know this ain't going to poll well.)

Maybe you better get some of that real sincere contrition thing going. And next time you feel like flapping those pinkish things that make up the outer edge of your mouth, just try it for a change shutting up.

Yeeesh!