There we were in the middle of the chair factory when good ol' Huck says to me, "say, is there anyplace around here where we could sit for a spell?"

You'd think that at this stage of the game there would be an emerging consensus that it's a bad idea to elect an imbecile to the presidency. And yet, with the Iowa caucuses upon us there seems to be every possibility that Mike Huckabee will win the Republican nomination.

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But enough with the race for the presidency. If the last few years have taught us anything, it's that when the president is a blithering simpleton, he needs a dark and evil lord strong vice president to stand beside him to ensure that things get done. Who will be Mike Huckabee's dark lord running mate? My money's on Dick Cheney.