Jerayln think Huckabee's hatred of AIDS victims will hurt his campaign. Back in 1992, Huck told the AP:

“If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague,”

Jeralyn writes:

Huckabee will sink like a stone.

But why would Huck's homophobia hurt him with the GOP base?

The GOP base is all about hatred of everyone who is not exactly like them - blacks, women, liberals, Mexicans, Jews, Mormons, and gays, to name just a few.

Digby points out that one week after playing "compassionate conservative" on immigration in the Youtube debate, Huckabee did a triple back-flip.

And lest anyone defend this jerk's comments [on AIDS] from 15 year ago as being old news, he came out with a really great new plan for undocumented workers last week that's sure to set aside any lingering doubts that he might be soft of the Mexican invaders...

Wingnuts do not vote on creationism and blastocyst worship alone. Huck knows that to close the deal he's got to publicly get some hate on for somebody. Going after the gays is so 2004. This year's designated Republican hate object is teh Mexicans. They just need a little more reassurance that he's one of them. This should do it.

Mexicans may be the right's top domestic enemy at the moment, but that doesn't mean the right has embraced gays. The right is capable of hating an unlimited number of perceived "others" at the same time. Remember that Jews were far from the only victims of the Nazi Holocaust:

Other groups were persecuted and killed by the regime, including the Roma [Gypsies], Soviets (particularly prisoners of war); ethnic Poles; other Slavic people; the physically or mentally disabled; gay men; religious dissidents such as Jehovah's witnesses, and political dissidents.

Rightwingers hate. And if they are not stopped, they go from hate to murder. That's who they are. That's what they do.