Thanks, Paul

A commenter writes:

Sorry Prof. Krugman but you have convinced me that Obama is unqualified to be president. Therefore for me the Iowa primaries are bad news. Although I will actually vote for neither, if somebody put a gun to my head, I would choose Huckabee over Obama.

— Posted by desertstraw


Now in fairness, you can find a commenter who says x, where x is any damn thing. What's troubling is that Krugman has put himself in a position where we have to contemplate the possibility that desertstraw is being sincere.

And actually, I feel quite a bit of sympathy with desertstraw. Like him, the only way I would ever vote for Huckabee over Obama would be at gunpoint.