I don't heart Huckabee

***This was a Facebook note I wrote after hearing some scary words that Mike Huckabee uttered during a recent trip to Israel. I ended up finishing the note while Huckabee was clarifying his ironically sanctimonious comments on Natalie Portman's pregnancy.***

Wow, Huckabee. You won't stop putting your foot in your mouth. Spouting off about Natalie Portman, claiming Obama grew up in Kenya, equating homosexuality with incest, and more. Even worse for a presidential candidate, your past comments on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are quite troubling.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/01/huckabee-no-palestinian-s_n_816867.html

Even though he had always been kind of a zero-substance populist, I sorta liked him until recently. He had a certain charm that I can only describe as the natural result of being Sarah Palin and Mr. Rogers' lovechild. However, I'm totally over him after he said that Israel shouldn't cede ANY land to a Palestinian state. He claims Israelis have indigenous rights to the land, making me wonder where, then, do Palestinians have indigenous rights if not "Palestine"...or when Huckabee thinks we should return the United States to its original inhabitants.

Even worse was his suggestion that Muslim-majority states come together to give up portions of their land. I have two things to say about that: 1) It's insulting to suggest that the Palestinians be the displaced stepchildren of someone else's country simply because of a shared religion, and 2) it's presumptuous to think that Arab and other Muslim-majority countries will offer land of value to the displaced Palestinians simply to cater to Huckabee's perverse sense of justice. Sure, there's land to be given out, but I don't think anyone cares to live on the zig-zag line made with Winston Churchill's pen when he sneezed.

Even assuming that Huckabee wasn't uttering pure biblical code-speak (which he probably was), he still may have sent his party's platform on Israel to the ultra-right, dealing a potentially damaging blow to any peace process.