Josh Marshall September 1, 2009, 10:47 AM

I’d been thinking alone the same lines. The 2007-2008 Mike Huckabee was the warm and fuzzy face of the Christian right, more morals than intolerance and even a backdraft of social justice on the economics front. But he seems to have decided that there’s an opening for a hate-fest candidate in 2012. And he’s auditioning for the role.