It's been how long????

Since February? It's not like we've dropped out of politics. There have been meetings with candidates, phone-banking, organizing, and caucusing. Just not blogging. The guys at the KC Blue Blog are doing a great job researching the illegalities and idiocies of the GOP. The folks at the CCP are on the case. The Hip Suburban White Guy kicks the wingnuts in the teeth with awesome regularity, and every knocked out tooth is well deserved.

So we slacked a little. To be honest, primaries don't trip our trigger. They are only tangentially related to beating Republicans. But primary season, at least in the presidential race, is coming to a close, and our candidate can get down to some serious beating of the old man, who, as Keith Olberman alludes, "screams at clouds." (We love that, Keith!)

So here's the latest in a long line of despicable crap Repubs get away with. Hillbilly Huck was talking to the NRA and joked about a gun being pointed at Barak Obama. Here's the poop, and we do mean poop, from CNN:

During a speech before the National Rifle Association convention Friday afternoon in Louisville, Kentucky, former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee — who has endorsed presumptive GOP nominee John McCain — joked that an unexpected offstage noise was Democrat Barack Obama looking to avoid a gunman.

“That was Barack Obama, he just tripped off a chair, he’s getting ready to speak,” said the former Arkansas governor, to audience laughter. “Somebody aimed a gun at him and he dove for the floor."

As Hillbilly Huck took pains to remind us all during his doomed campaign, this guy claims to be a Christian minister. We can only quote scripture here: Jesus wept.

PS: This one's for Mike, who got us off our ass.