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What IS it in the water in Arkansas? Michelle Malkin says this is Huck's "tinfoil hat" moment; I say it just shows again how much like the Clintons he is. Either way, take a look at this latest bit of garbage from the Huckster. Now there is a conspiracy against him, he says. Hint to every two-bit dingbat out there who continues to misuse the word: The word "conspiracy" by definition (quoting Webster's) involves "acting together SECRETLY, esp. for AN UNLAWFUL or harmful purpose, such as murder or treason."

If something is done out in the open, and it is legal and aboveboard, then it by definition cannot be a conspiracy. And a conspiracy also involves a conscious and deliberate collaboration; i.e., it means that the people who are part of it are deliberately communicating with each other.

The fact is, there are no secrets and no deliberate collaborations or communications among all the prominent conservatives who quite openly explain WHY they oppose Mike Huckabee. I know I have never spoken to Mark Levin about it, or to Rush Limbaugh, or to George Will, or Phyllis Schlafly, Michael Reagan..... all of whom have made their objections to the Huckster quite clear. Then there are Jed Babbin, Rich Lowry, Jonah Goldberg, Kathryn Lopez, Fred Barnes, Charles Krauthammer, Peggy Noonan, Ann Coulter, Bob Novak, Bob Dole, Laura Ingraham, David Limbaugh, Donald Lambro, the Club for Growth, Dick Armey, Thomas Sowell, John Fund, the Wall Street Journal, Pete Wehner, David Frum, Deroy Murdock, Paul Mirengoff, John Hinderaker, Frank Gaffney, and so many others who have strongly criticized Huckabee. This isn't a conspiracy; it's a consensus.

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