I made my view on Mike Huckabee very clear during the primary season (see here and here), and last week I included him in my list of ten least favorite people on the Right. Huckabee also ranked #7 in the Right Wing News bloggers poll of their least favorite people on the Right.

So why is Huckabee trying so hard to make us dislike him even more?

In his new book, Huckabee demonstrates his personal dislike of Mitt Romney, and picks on Fred Thompson even though Thompson did nothing but run as a true conservative. These men are both more conservative and more honest than Huckabee. The only reason Huckabee is attacking them is because they stood in what he thought was the path God paved for him to the presidency. And it never seems to occur to him that he is the one who stood in their way.

You know, we have gotten so caught up in pointing out that Obama thinks of himself as "The One" that we forgot how Huckabee was convinced that God had endorsed him:

A Time article describes his book:

He calls out Pat Robertson, the Virginia-based televangelist, and Dr. Bob Jones III, chancellor of Bob Jones University in South Carolina, for endorsing Rudy Giuliani and Romney, respectively. He also has words for the Texas-based Rev. John Hagee, who endorsed the more moderate John McCain in the primaries, as someone who was drawn to the eventual Republican nominee because of the lure of power. Huckabee says he spoke to Hagee by phone before the McCain endorsement while preparing for a spot on Saturday Night Live. "I asked if he had prayed about this and believed this was what the Lord wanted him to do," Huckabee writes of the conversation. "I didn't get a straight answer."

Amazing. You get the impression that these religious figures were told by God to endorse Huckabee, but that they collectively betrayed God and went to someone else. Simply delusional.

Huckabee also takes on small-government conservatives in his book, calling them "faux-cons." Well yes. If Huckabee's vision of big authoritative government really defines conservatism, then we are absolutely faux-conservatives. Except it doesn't. Jason Pye (via CfG) says:

he just sounds like a bitter guy trying to get back at all the people who called him out for what he really is: a tax hiking, religious, progressive who has a freightening amount of ignorance when it comes to what capitalism is and has no idea as to what liberty really means.

Huckabee doesn't seem to understand that people can be both religious and proponents of small government. In fact, most Republicans are. And that's why they rejected him despite his fluent tongue and appealing rhetoric.