Maybe we should let Bush Hater Emeritus Jonathan Chait have the
last word on Huckabee's populism. In his TRB column in the Dec. 10 issue of the
New Republic, appropriately titled "Huckster," he
contrasts Huckabee's denunciation of CEO salaries as "immoral" with
the kind words Huckabee has to say about Wal-Mart honcho Sam Walton
-- "whose salary," Chait writes, "surely qualified as immoral if
anybody's ever did." Instead, Huckabee, in his campaign book
From Hope to Higher Ground, calls him a "visionary" and a
man of "extraordinary integrity." Even worse, according to Chait,
Huckabee was quite happy to see top state employees hired away by
Wal-Mart itself (to ensure "docile oversight," according to Chait).
How long before Mike visits Wall Street?
