I've never heard of this guy. But you said that he was Huckabee's preacher. So the issue of how crazy or how much of a loon he is is not really relevant to Huckabee unless he's Huck's pastor since there are plenty of crazy preachers running around. If you want to compare him to Wright, and you do since you brought him up, then he has to be someone's preacher. We would have never talked about Wright in 2008 if he hadn't been Obama's preacher for 20 years. So show me Huckabee's preacher, or any major candidates preacher, but for this guy, who gives a fuck?
He's a preacher.
Huckabee's in his back pocket.
So, in effect, he's Huckabee's preacher.
When Huck's running around saying we should listen to Barton with a shotgun pointed at us, then...yeah, he's a loon. And so is Huckabee.
Let's concentrate on the man's obvious influence over Huckabee and Huck's resultant influence over millions of people and you'll see how scary this whole thing is.