“…it’s surprising–yet for reasons we’ll get into, entirely sensible–that the candidate who has made the most effective use of pop culture in campaign 2008 is the former president of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention. Mike Huckabee, the bass-playing, weight-loss-book-writing, late-night-quipping, Chuck Norris–befriending pastor, has turned an easy facility with pop culture into free media for his underfunded -underdog campaign.”