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By comparing WMD to Easter eggs and confusing Syria with Jordan, Mike Huckabee continues to have his folksiness degenerate into utter unseriousness. If he hadn't botched the Syria reference, the line might have been remembered as an attempt to win over WMD-in-Iraq dead-enders who see Huckabee as a foreign-policy softie. And yet if Huckabee had been able to raise money, he might have had an outside chance of winning this thing.
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