Today, Huckabee lied about the cross, claiming it was just a bookshelf, and dismissing those who see a cross as nuts. "I will confess this: If you play the spot backwards it says, 'Paul is dead. Paul is dead.'"

The Grand Inquisitor of American Catholicism, Bill Donahue, wasn't amused. "What he's trying to say to the evangelicals in western Iowa (is): I'm the real thing," Donahue said Tuesday on Fox News Channel's "Fox and Friends. "You know what, sell yourself on your issues, not on what your religion is."

Why is Huckabee lying about the cross? Is he ashamed of his Christian faith? Or does he think Americans are blithering idiots?