Mike Huckabee: I Was the Fat, Unattractive Sarah Palin That No One Liked

Gawker ^ | November 9, 2009

[2ndDivisionVet]

In 2008, a charismatic right-wing populist Republican governor won the heart of the party's base despite being forced to take a backseat to a more respectable "moderate" Republican. He was Mike Huckabee, and he is sad, and mad.

Ben Smith followed Mike Huckabee around for a while as he sold his new Christmas book.

Huckabee was the governor of Arkansas. He used to be fat, and then he got skinny, and now he is getting fat again. He's also basically as crazy Christian as they come, but he masks this with a genuinely likable sense of humor, which is why he has a TV program on Fox now.

He won Iowa in 2008. He is raising a lot of money. He just won a Gallup poll of potential 2012 Republican candidates. But he has two problems: Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney.

Palin is the more marketable and exciting version of him, both because she says much dumber and insane things and also she is an attractive lady. Romney is the guy who will almost certainly actually win the nomination, because the sensible money guys in the party like him, despite the fact that he is Mormon Robot.

Here is Huckabee being totally not bitter about Sarah Palin stealing his gimmick:

"Some of the people who had excoriated me and really been very dismissive of me for views that I had taken, and labeled me anything from a populist to an ignoramus - the same people have been very defensive [of] and laudatory to Sarah Palin," Huckabee noted, adding that he'd invited her to appear on his weekly Fox show but "could never get any contact."

"I'm glad she's getting the props - I know I'm not nearly as attractive," he said with a guileless grin.

Now Huckabee is just eating his way across America, trying to get people excited about his book, insulting all the other Republicans who were and are mean to him. Pat Toomey and the Club for Growth—the Wall Street wing of the activist conservative movement—still hate him, which will make fundraising hard. And he still openly hates and ridicules Romney, which will probably prevent him from getting the VP slot.

You don't really need to worry about the Republicans in 2012. Unlike solar flares and earthquakes and volcanoes and stuff.

[RichInOC]

Okay, seriously, what are the really dumb, really insane things that Governor Palin has actually said? Not the things that Tina Fey said while playing her. Not the things that some anonymous McCain staffer said she said. Not the things that those poison-pen bloggers up in Alaska said she said. And certainly not the bullcrap that Ricky Hollywood said she said. The things she said. You’d think if she were a Bidenesque source of crazy stuff, after a year of intense media attention to her, they could put together an actual reel. You would think.

[rrrod]

well said

[Mr Inviso]

The headline lacked the words “whiny” and “phony”

[deport]

Hey Huck, Thanks for McCain.

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Never forget if it hadn’t have been for them Ma Palin would still be a Governor up in the cold country and known to many. So there is a bright spot to be thankful for.

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

“Guileless” my aaa... uh, foot! The Huckster is a snake oil salesman. He has that same layer of artificial charm that John Edwards has, only on the other side of the political spectrum. I wouldn’t elect him to dog catcher.

[PalmettoMason]

What has Palin said that was stupid and dumb?

Well, she came pretty close when she introduced Levi Johnston as if he were a family member...LOL.

(I love Sarah, by the way!)

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Mike Huckabee: I Was the Fat, Unattractive Sarah Palin That No One Liked

And you still are, so buzz off. Fat or skinny, no one likes you. So go away.

[grey_whiskers]

but apparently in the NE Corridor, this is a mortal sin.

My ass, Bob.

Cheers!

[Dr.Zoidberg]

Good luck with your musical career mikey.

[dalereed]

Hey lard ass, get lost permanently!!!

[b359]

What a goof.

So many freaks in our government.

[livius]

It all depends on who you are...

There is no appearance, behavior or action too hideous if your’re a Massachusetts Dem. You get a pass on everything.