Gov. Mike Huckabee had lots of amusing, cute, evasive things to say about the gays on The Tyra Banks Show. Plus: does politics affect your sex life? And how The West Wing created Barack Obama before it was cool...
From the transcript of Mike Huckabee's appearance on the Tyra Banks program:
BANKS: Do you want the gay vote? HUCKABEE: Sure, I want every vote. Seriously, I want to be president of everybody. And I can disagree with people over a choice they make in their life or over a lifestyle and still be their president and still say I want to keep you free, I want to keep your country safe, I want to make your taxes lower not higher.
And so on.
BANKS: I'm asking you so many questions about this because I love the gays and the gays love me. And I know I cannot walk down the street here in New York City if I didn't press that issue and truly ask you that. HUCKABEE: I think you should. I think people will respect my views on that; I respect theirs. The great thing about America is, we can have totally different viewpoints and we can do it without having animosity and hatred. This is one of the great countries where you can have sharp disagreements without killing each other over it.
Huckabee clearly emerged not only unscathed but on top of this one-- he actually sounded like a guy who cares about gay people, which is incompatible, to be sure, with the the image of the President (or should we say Vice President?) we see him being.
In othere news, a new study in Spain shows it's not the commies, anarchists, or right-wing fascists that have the best sex, but the agnostics.
And below is a lil' video from Slate about how Jimmy Smits, er, Barack Obama became the President: