Pretty funny. If you’ve missed it, the institutional right has been panicking about the unmistakable rise of Mike Huckabee, unabashed candidate of the “values voters.” John Cole, former Republican who saw the light, details the backlash here and here, and gets a laugh out of how those (like Rich Lowry at the National Review Online) who have traditionally leveraged the Christian conservative vote now are worried it’s carrying too much weight in the GOP:

Where the hell has Lowry been the last decade? Let’s review this GOP’s greatest hits:

Terri Schiavo
Marriage Amendments
Stem Cell Bans
Doctoring Scientific reports
Evolution Denial
Global Warming denial
Just Us Sunday
Abstinence Only
Faith-based initiatives
Election year anti-gay ballot initiatives

And so on and so on. The GOP is, quite simply, little more than freakish display of social conservatism. And you can go through the NRo archives and see what they had to say about every one of those issues and others (protip- they were supportive). Rather than trying to run from his creation, Lowry should embrace it- he and his cohort had a good hand in making the GOP what it is today. Enjoy, and quit pretending to be surprised when the villagers race to destroy your monster with pitchforks and torches.