At Huckabee's New Year's Eve party here in Des Moines, talk radio host Steve Deace told me he supports Mike Huckabee because the former Arkansas governor's proposals are at odds with corporate capital and because Huckabee supports what the religious right contends are traditional values. Fair enough. Not breaking any new ground on that. But check out how he phrased it:
Mike made both the guy in the suit and the guy in the dress both mad at him. People who want to define sin as normal, and people who want to define greed as noble. I like the fact that both of those, whether they be liberal academics who want to rewrite morality or corporate dudes who are shipping jobs to Taiwan... I like the fact that he ticks both of those people off.
I'm not sure what to make of this. Deace, who emceed the event, had made a similar remark on stage earlier. He followed it up then with a reference to Atlantic Monthly blogger Andrew Sullivan, who happens to be gay, and is no fan of Huckabee. Is this homophobic or am I overly sensitive to what might be perceived as bigotry? I wonder why Deace threw in the gratuitous "guy in the dress" quip.
My apologies for the untimely post.
