Huck goes to school

Hey! Somebody noticed that Huckabee, great performer that he is, doesn’t know anything about anything. So his team has just hired some help:

Huckabee has risen to become one of the GOP’s top presidential contenders almost completely by virtue of his own rhetorical talents and retail political skills. But he has written most all of his speeches, and his bare-bones campaign has been woefully lacking in terms of policy ideas.

Pinkerton will help fill that void.

A Newsday columnist and Fox News contributor, Pinkerton worked in both the Reagan and Bush 41 White Houses as well as the presidential campaigns of each. As a respected voice among right-leaning pundits, he’ll bring instant credibility to a campaign that has drawn scorn from the conservative establishment.

And he’ll ensure that Huckabee suffers through no more moments like last month when he hadn’t heard about the NIE report on Iran a day-and-a-half after it was made public.

Well, if Brad Pitt can bone up on his “knowledge” of the world so that he can be a more credible and effective celebrity, then the least one of the guys running for president can do is figure out which end is up after you turn right at the Atlantic Ocean.

Though John Podhoretz loved what Huck had to say about Israel the other day …

We’ve got one true ally in the Middle East, and that’s Israel. It’s a tiny nation. I’ve been there nine time. I’ve literally traveled from Dan to Beersheba, and I understand something of that nation and the vulnerability of it.

And for us to give the world the impression that we would stand by if it were under attack and simply say, “It’s not our problem,” would be recklessly irresponsible on our part.

And if I were president, you can rest assured that we would not let an ally be annihilated by those enemies which is surround it, who have openly stated it is their direct intention to destroy that nation. It would not happen under my presidency.

Take that, Jimmy Carter! (Apparently, the two fellas have differences about how to be a good Baptist, too.)