A great catch by Matt Y here.
Over at NRO, Mark Hemmingway is the latest establishment conservative pundit to come out against Huckabee. Here's what he has to say:
I had (largely) refrained from piling on Huckabee because I wanted to give him a fair shake. I've now read his last two books (you can read my piece about them on NRO today) and am here to tell you they were terribly written and totally insubstantial. Thought his Foreign Affairs piece was bad? Read his chapter in From Hope to Higher Ground on how to "STOP the Loss of America's Prestige at Home and Abroad." His relentless use of folksy aphorisms and corny rhetorical sleight of hand provokes visceral objections -- but the criticism isn't merely superficial. In the TNR I piece I linked to yesterday a member of the Arkansas press corps observed, "He thinks and speaks in metaphors. And, often, they're not right." That, well, hits the nail on the head.
So here's tonight's homework assignment: please describe how Huckabee's "relentless use of folksy aphorisms and corny rhetorical sleight" differs from Ronald Reagan's famous approach to communicating. And please, feel free to use as many words as you'd like. You're going to need them.
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