People would probably take the fundie right more seriously, be less inclined to dismiss them as ignorant spectacles, if they quit eagerly accepting buffoons like Quayle and Palin as their self anointed saviors. Huckabee's a Southern Baptist MINISTER, for Petes sake, and that has plenty of folks on the left nervous even though he's made no effort (to my knowledge) to inject his beliefs into education or other policy, but SHE'S the one they latch onto as their new hope, even though she has about as much political experience as Obama did in '04 (and we all see how that's going. ) I wonder if their newest new hope can spell "potato. "