Mike Huckabee's bus on a recent book tour stop in Cedar Rapids, IA. (flickr user CR Artist (cc:by-nc-nd))
Have former governors Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee chosen to forgo politics in order to cultivate their celebrity status? That's the view of our guest, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, who writes in an op-ed this week that both candidates chose to cash in on their celebrity following the 2008 elections, instead of working towards wider policy and governing experience. We also speak with Cindy Gallop, an advertising consultant and former chair of the advertising agency BBH.
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When is these people's god going to put the rest of us rational people out of these idiots' misery?