You just about have to conclude Mike Huckabee has a gun fetish. From D-G coverage of his appearance at Sen. Gilbert Baker’s fund-raiser:

GREENBRIER – Failed Republican presidential candidate and former Gov. Mike Huckabee on Thursday suggested that Democratic Party officials are targeting Republican Sen. Gilbert Baker of Conway for defeat because Baker’s been an effective lawmaker.

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“No hunter goes out there and points his rifle at the dead animal,” Huckabee told reporters at a fundraiser for Baker’s re-election that drew more than 500 people to the home of surgeon Mike Stanton, who serves on the University of Central Arkansas’ board of trustees.

“You only take the shot at something that you want to put on the wall. Well, Gilbert will be a wall trophy if they can take him down,” he said. “I don’t think they can argue with his record, his integrity of service.”

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Robbing convenience stores to raise campaign cash … imagined pot shots at Barack Obama .. a senator as a gun target. He’ll be a laff riot running with McCain on the bomb-bomb-bomb-bomb-bomb Iran ticket. Duck and cover. (A reader notes that Huckabee repeated the line about crosshairs on a dead animal numerous times during the campaign; at a  minimum, time for a new cliche.)

ALSO: The Huckster today urged Arkansans to link up with the vile turncoat, Joe Loserman, to support John McCain. I so look forward to November, when the Democrats add five or six seats in the Senate and Harry Reid can tell the senator from Connecticut to put it where the sun don’t shine.

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