Don't Make Me Vote for Ralph Nader AGAIN

Pat Robertson endorses Rudy Giuliani.

As if you needed any more evidence that an enormous political machine runs the American electoral process, Pat and Rudy are the latest footnote in Wikipedia's entry on strange bedfellows.

But what astounds me, what makes me stare out the window mouth agape, is that there's a candidate who Pat Robertson's constituency would marry their daughters to in the form of Mike Huckabee.

(Metaphorically, of course. If they were actually going to marry their daughters that way, it'd be to Mitt Romney. ZING!)

At least superficially (which is where most of us do our voting), Mike Huckabee has everything that got George Bush elected, except for Constitution-optional advisors.

He's anti- all the things a conservative Republican should be anti-. He's unreservedly Christian. He's politically right, but still has intelligible things to say about the environment. There's no aura of doubt around him like every other Republican frontrunner. And from all accounts I've read, he's likeable as an ice cream truck driver.

Why are Republicans not stampeding to elect this guy? Listening to NPR this morning, I was dismayed to realize that my two likely choices in 2008 would be Clinton and Giuliani. After eight years on the Fantabulous Dubya Fiasco Cavalcade, this is what replaces him? Argh. Argh.

The best chance Huckabee has at this point is a piano falling on a key person in someone else's camp. But it's not like I want to hope for that.

UPDATE, Nov. 9: Pat Robertson may endorse Rudy Giuliani, but Chuck Norris endorses Mike Huckabee. The only reason Chuck himself has never run for president is that no human could withstand the race, and all extradimensional creatures are afraid.