Huckabee’s friendly, folksy demeanor can distract attention from the disturbing fact that he and his backers essentially urged conservative evangelicals to vote for him based on his being the “right” kind of Christian.

That should make Americans very nervous.

Governor Huckabee has pledged to support every item on the Radical Right’s wish list: a constitutional ban on abortion, a veto of legislation to protect gay and lesbian Americans from discrimination, support for a bill to keep federal courts from intervening when local officials violate the separation of church and state, and most importantly, a far-right Supreme Court.

When asked about what kind of justices Huckabee would appoint to the Supreme Court — something CNN predicts the next president could get to do three or more times — his answer was:

“I would want people who are in the spirit of Scalia. He’s probably my hero in the Court.”

That should make Americans even more nervous.

To find out more about what Mike Huckabee and the other Republican presidential candidates are saying about the Court, please visit http://www.TakeBackTheCourt.org.

And for more information on Huckabee and the Religious Right, see PFAW’s report The Huckabee Surge: Why Religious Right Activists Like Mike and our Right Wing Watch Huckabee archive.