Not Very Nice, Hitch

Christopher Hitchens is his normal pugilistic self here, and I enjoyed it immensely, but if Huckabee is an irretrievably idiotic Jesus freak, what does that make his Man, W? That president dude that likes to play cowboy and fighter pilot...remember him, Hitch?

I've wondered for years now how Hitchens can continue to hold his nose and still support that disaster of man because of a war that he grotesquely mismanaged. I understand how important the war is and how much Hitch wants to fight it, but one would think that would make him more angry--like supporting an orphanage just to find out that it's being run by child abusers.

I just don't understand how Hitchens--a guy who has utter contempt for religion and who has always been a fierce civil libertarian--can continue to support W. And I think it a bit hypocritical of him to publicly skewer Huckabee with that kind of nastiness when W has largely received a pass from him for years now. About the only major differences between Huckabee and W, from what I can see is (1) Huckabee is not morally lazy and (2) he can out-think W with half his brain tied behind his back.