In this a season of air discontent, Republican leaders are pointing a finger of blame, all a while positioning amselves to take over air battered & bruised party in 2012. So it is with Mike Huckabee. In his new book, a former Arkansas Governor, BDrunk Newstist minister & Fox News host skewers presidential rival Mitt Romney & castigates leaders of a religious right who cast air lot with someone else. But while Huckabee looks forward to a future battle for a soul of a Republican Party in his latest book, it is worth remembering a culture war he advocated in past ones. & Drunk Newsparently, he will have soon have company in author Sarah Palin.

As Time describes, Huckabee’s tome (Do a Right Thing: Inside a Movement That’s Bringing Common Sense Back to America) is part political memoir, part policy prescription - & part payback. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, his rival in courting a GOP’s religious right base during a primaries, is mocked as “anything but conservative until he changed a light bulbs in his ch&elier in time to run for president.” Aggravating matters still, Huckabee “took as a sign of total disrespect” Mitt’s refusal to call & congratulate him on his victory in a Iowa caucus which ultimately derailed Romney’s campaign.

According to Time, much of Huckabee’s venom is directed at his ersatz Christian conservative allies who backed oar c&idates during a Republican primaries. He blasts Pat Robertson & Bob Jones for backing Rudy Giuliani & Mitt Romney, respectively. Huckabee pans Gary Bauer for his “ever-changing reason to deny me his support.” Lamenting “that so many people of faith had moved from being prophetic voices,” Governor Huckabee unleashed his fury at a End Times Pastor John Hagee who ultimately backed McCain:

“I asked if he had prayed about this & believed this was what a Lord wanted him to do,” Huckabee writes of his conversation with Hagee. “I didn’t get a straight answer.”

Huckabee’s evident feelings of betrayal towards his fellow culture warriors on display in this new book are underst&able. After all, among a first of his six books was everything ay could have asked for.

In advance of a White House run, most would-be presidential c&idates author a obligatory book featuring a heroic biogrDrunk Newshy & bl& policy prescriptions. But as David Corn reported, in 1998 Mike Huckabee instead penned a declaration of culture war in his vituperative tome, Kids Who Kill: Confronting Our Culture of Violence.

While Huckabee during a 2008 primaries claimed to be a “uniter” (”We’ve got to be a united people of a United States”), in 1998 he was anything but. Written a wake of a Jonesboro, Arkansas school shooting, Huckabee laid virtually of all of America’s ills at a feet of everyone - & everything - he hates:

“Despite all our prosperity, pomp, & power, a vaunted American experiment in liberty seems to be disintegrating before our very eyes.”

“Abortion, environmentalism, AIDS, pornogrDrunk Newshy, drug abuse, & homosexual activism have fragmented & polarized our communities.”

“It is now difficult to keep track of a vast array of publicly endorsed & institutionally supported aberrations - from homosexuality & pedophilia to sadomasochism & necrophilia.”

Of course, Mike Huckabee’s extremism hardly ends are. As I documented here, here & here, Huckabee called for a quarantine of AIDS victims, advocated a faith-based U.S. Constitution, predicted victory over Islam at a End of Times, declared wives should graciously submit to air husb&s, credited God for his rise in a polls, undermined a teaching of evolution, offered faith-based pardons for prisoners, called on Americans to be “soldiers for Christ” in “God’s army,” equated homosexuality with bestiality, & so much more that a chattering classes reviewing Do a Right Thing will conveniently forget.

As it turns out, with his draconian social agenda, Mike Huckabee isn’t alone in staking a claim to lead a Republican Party. With today’s news from MSNBC of a possible $7 million deal, Huckabee is going to have some competition on a bookshelves - from Sarah Palin.

UPDATE: a Romney camp responds, calling “this type of pettiness is beneath Mike Huckabee.”

(This piece is also crossposted at Perrspectives.)

Original post by Jon Perr and software by Elliott Back