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I didn't know Huckabee or anyone else, such as Romney, was trying to hide behind Article VI of the Constitution, which proscribes religious tests as a condition for holding office, but the ever-articulate Christopher Hitchens unloads:

However, what Article VI does not do, and was never intended to do, is deny me the right to say, as loudly as I may choose, that I will on no account vote for a smirking hick like Mike Huckabee, who is an unusually stupid primate but who does not have the elementary intelligence to recognize the fact that this is what he is. My right to say and believe that is already guaranteed to me by the First Amendment. And the right of Huckabee to win the election and fill the White House with morons like himself is unaffected by my expression of an opinion.

It is perhaps too bad that we cannot insist on a test of minimum rationality, which would disqualify those who disavow evolution for creationism, for instance. But we just have to rely on the good sense of the American electorate. Oh my!


(Source: Christopher Hitchens for Slate.com)

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