In a rare development, Richard Cohen of the Washington Post penned a column today that offered a cogent and oriiginal point about a political subject (though maybe I'm just suffering from Column Envy).

All the talk about Mitt Romney's religion, says Cohen, has detracted attention from the fact that Mike Huckabee is an ordained Southern Baptist minister, which is a relatively unusual phenomenon on the presidential campaign trail. Indeed, while there's not much evidence that Romney's faith has any particular impact on his policy positions, Huckabee's been trading on his evangelical credentials pretty heavily of late. So why, asks Cohen, isn't anybody asking the Arkansan to do a JFK-style speech reassuring people about his religious views?

It's a good question, and one that may get asked a lot if Huckabee manages to upset the Mittster in Iowa.