Big h/t to Think Progress for this one.

Rev Gomer has some strange notions about torture. Either he doesn't believe waterboarding is torture, or he believes it is and equates his career with torture. From our p.o.v., the latter is a distinct possibility.

Need a break, Mr. Candidate? Fine with us. Go back to your Huckastructionist Rev-ing.  On second thought, don't. That's torture for the rest of us, too, not to mention it threatens what's left of our democracy.

This morning, CNN ran a story “tracking the strain furious campaigning puts on the human body” for the presidential candidates. During the segment, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee joked that his campaign schedule is not providing enough time to sleep and that, for him, is “like being waterboarded”:

HUCKABEE: I’m finding just out how long I can go sleep deprived. You know, running for office is sort of like being waterboarded, I think.

That just cracks me up! Doesn't it crack you up? Omg, he should do stand-up! What wit! Maybe he can write these posts for me, too! Or audition for the Daily Show!

A recent CNN article on the same subject also noted Huckabee’s comments and added: “He was only half-kidding.” But waterboarding is torture, illegal under both U.S. and international law, and certainly nothing to joke about.

Unfortunately, Huckabee is not the first Republican presidential candidate to compare lack of sleep and torture in jest. Last year, former New York City mayor (and current waterboarding supporter) Rudy Giuliani called liberals “silly” for describing “sleep deprivation” as torture, joking that “on that theory, I’m getting tortured running for president of the United States.”

Again, so were we. At least we got some relief when he dropped out.

I wonder how funny it would be to Rev Gomer if he were sent on a one-way, all-expenses-paid trip to Gitmo. At least there he'd have a captive audience.