"Women voters in both parties harshly criticize that," Fox's Carl Cameron said to Huckabee. "Is that position politically viable in the general election of 2008, sir?"

"The point," Huckabee responded, "is that as wives submit themselves to the husbands, the husbands also submit themselves, and it's not a matter of one being somehow superior over the other."

Mike Huckabee's proposal Monday night to rewrite the U.S. Constitution in the words of his God got virtually no mention in mainstream media today. But it's all over the web, including this piece on Alternet. It won't go away because it captures the radical lurking behind the aw-shucks demeanor.

In time, web commentary will drive the conventional media to catch up. Also due for a catchup: The lightly mentioned reference to Huckabee's idea to block U.S. borders to legal immigrants from countries that have harbored terrorists. He invoked 9/11 in the process. Somebody must have enlightened him that the 9/11 attackers came from such allies as Saudi Arabia and likely drew support from people there. ...

His staff's response to the God gaffe was instructive. He was just reaching out to evangelicals in Michigan then. He'd worry about alienating other voters later. This is SO Huckabee. Say whatever is necessary moment. Worry about contradictions, flip-flops and other consequences later, when there's time to get a change-of-direction fart or constipation joke at the ready. (my emphasis)

- In a 2005 column, Pinkerton advocated genocide in Iraq, writing that America can make "anti-American violence in Iraq end" by unleashing "the Shia Arab Muslims and the Kurds to finish the job, all the way to the bloody extreme."

- On Fox News in June 2006, Pinkerton complained about people who feel the "military needs to be carefully restrained with legal rules and procedures," exclaiming "I’d rather lose our civil liberties than lose the war."

- In December 2006, Pinkerton argued that "proximity to Mexico is at least partly to blame" for corruption in Texas.

- In September 2007, Pinkerton warned in the American Conservative of "Muslimization," concluding that "to keep the peace, we must separate our civilizations."

Although Huckabee has denied that he is a dominionist, it is the religious right's quest to Christianize government (and the GOP) that has driven the groundswell for his candidacy.

The ground troops in Huckabee’s populist march have been cultivated in mega-churches, through televangelism, and through a mass-marketed, consumer-style religion. These soldiers in "Huck’s army" consume the dominionist message, believe that they need to evangelize the country and the world, and believe that they are doing God’s work through their vote. Through a panoply of mediums - church, television, magazines, conferences, the Web, and even movies - they are activated on a daily basis to political action. Networks tying pastors to political activism propel the process; when Huckabee spoke at John Hagee's church in December, for example, he reached about 10,000 people, was promised an airing of the sermon on television, and potentially reached Hagee's network of thousands of pastors, and their own followings of thousands.

This viral marketing approach is what's rendering people like Focus on the Family's James Dobson, the Southern Baptist Convention's Richard Land, Family Research Council's Tony Perkins, and American Values' Gary Bauer - all leaders of the influential Arlington Group that has failed to coalesce around a candidate - largely irrelevant to Huckabee's remarkable success. And they are shell-shocked that the train has left the station without them. They are left standing on the platform, emasculated by Chuck Norris. (my emphasis)