"He instinctively can find the shining greatness of our American culture and does a good job of highlighting it (although he also does have those rare lapses when he writes about hockey, but that is something caused by impurities in the Eastern waters or something)." Erik Keilholtz
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Jonah Goldberg has a way with the Arkansan carny metaphor:
Presidential elections tend to be won by the more likeable candidate -- and Hillary is a lugubrious robot. Bill is an oleaginous carny, who, like her, dissembles with breathless abandon. But while Hillary has the lyrics down, she can't hear the music. "The Un-Inevitability of Hillary Clinton," National Review, 12/3/07
Huckabee is a brilliant, gassy, Hurricane Hippo of a carnival-stall evangelist who can turn phrases on a dime. In Arkansas, he's considered an even greater maestro of off-the-cuff cornpone schmaltz than Bill Clinton. "The Horror of Huck," NR, 12/31/07