How Did We Arrive at This Point?

So, while candidates in other countries risk life and limb for politics, our candidates risk only their own pride and our derision to win the right to continue campaigning for another 10 months or so. And so it was that yesterday Mike Huckabee decided to let his redneck flag fly by announcing that he doesn't only kill small animals for fun all the time unlike that poseur Romney, he eats them , too. Yes, in order to pander to the varmint-eaters vote, Huckabee bragged "I figured out you could put grease in a popcorn popper and heat that thing up, and you could cook anything,. So we fried squirrel." OMG, people, is this what we're coming to? Who is the biggest redneck Macgyver? And with 10 more months to go? I'm cracking the booze now. Book me at room at Promises for November 5th, please. [ LA Times ]