Huck and Bariatric Surgery

The Corner ^ | 12/31 11:26 AM | Lisa Schiffren

[CottonBall]

Good post pointing out the REAL issues of the campaign. I personally couldn’t care less if Huckabee currently weighed over 300 pounds, had bariatric surgery, or hair transplants. It’s his stance on the issues that have been wrong and will destroy the country (and what’s left of the party).

[CottonBall]

Nothing he's shown us in the campaign makes a case for him to be president. We should focus on that failing and not on his weight.

Exactly.

[Checkers]

Deliverance

[Checkers]

Why the cover-up on his medical records?

[WFTR]

Mike Huckabee is finding ways to ensure that the ad will be shown. I heard earlier today that Fox News was going to broadcast the ad as part of its coverage. Mike Huckabee is not about “better angels.”

[unspun]

Mike Huckabee is finding ways to ensure that the ad will be shown. I heard earlier today that Fox News was going to broadcast the ad as part of its coverage. Mike Huckabee is not about “better angels.”

I think this shows he's a pretty tough fighter, to keep the moral high ground, yet shoot one across Romney's bow. I believe he actually did decide in the final hour.

[WFTR]

I think this shows he's a pretty tough fighter, to keep the moral high ground, yet shoot one across Romney's bow. I believe he actually did decide in the final hour.

All he showed is hypocrisy.

[Yaelle]

FUNNIEST POST ON FREE REPUBLIC!

Thanks for the laugh, oh my gosh.

[Xenalyte]

It was called Optifast, I used to work for the Houston branch, and it was not at all a good or healthy weight loss plan.

[Yaelle]

But if Huck went out and HAD bypass surgery like the excellent link has researched, and wrote a BOOK about it all being diet and exercise (which, of course, is only a semi-lie because bariatric surgery only FORCES the patient to control their eating - the surgery does not remove fat from the body), he is a Liar Par Extraordinaire, and we've HAD one of those in the White House recently (and from AK). We do NOT need another.

He should show his scans from the hernia surgery the year after, to see if it really was the rare kind of hernia he SAID it was, or the more common post-bariatric surgery hernia that it PROBABLY was. But he won't. Why, he would be MOST MOCKING about the insinuation! "Cross?? I don't see no stinkin' cross!"

[Yaelle]

Show me someone who has shown a greater ability than Mike Huckabee to communicate, convince, and draw Americans to “the better angels of their nature.”

"Aw, heck, Ah know Huckabee's game and Ah been playin' it long before him!"

[Checkers]

“Mike Huckabee is finding ways to ensure that the ad will be shown. I heard earlier today that Fox News was going to broadcast the ad as part of its coverage. Mike Huckabee is not about “better angels.””

QUESTION: Did Romney lie or misrepresent anything about Huckabee or McCain? I mean, other than saying Huckabee was a good man, which Romney clearly got wrong.

[Checkers]

“All he showed is hypocrisy.”

The Huck also exposed himself as a liar.

[Captain Peter Blood]

I live in Arkansas and as far as I know Huckabee did not have surgery. He was in the care of Doctors at UAMS and did a special diet available, Liquid and low calorie food, and got on a exercise program I think with a personal trainor. He lost all that weight on his own and it took roughly a year. People can do it and he did. I can assure you that if he had had surgery it would have been reported.

[unspun]

The FR sliming of just about the only GOP candidate with appeal across the Crotchety Republican Line (CRL) continues....

[Checkers]

“I live in Arkansas...”

What’s the deal with Hope, Arkansas?

[CaptainK]

And such a story would be extremely damaging. Huckabee lied. And he actually wrote a damned BOOK about how to lose weight.

He's another Star Jones. Her book did the two- step around her miraculous weight loss. It took two years for her to finally admit to it. And she did it in conjunction with a publicity tour for her new show, after she was canned from "The View".

This guy is a piece of work. Just happened to have abdominal surgery right around the time of his weight loss. How convenient.

[Route66]

Quite frankly, I would not care a bit about his weight loss or how he did it. However, since he wrote a book and gave speeches about how to do it without surgery and the reason others paid money for both was based on his assertion he’d done it through special diet and exercise, I think this story has the potential to be explosive. On top of his other problems, this would cinch his snake oil salesman reputation. In essence, it’s fraud. He would be wise to put it all to rest with his medical records unless, of course, he cannot.

[joebuck]

"..that Huckabee's 110-pound weight loss in a year, and other physical changes are more consistent with bariatric surgery than unassisted diet and exercise."

This is totally wrong. If you are grossly overweight losing 2 pounds a week through diet and excerise is the norm not unusual. In fact, early on it is not unusual to lose up to 4 pounds a week. As you continue to lose weight it gets hard and hard to lose the remaining pounds though. I lost 50 lbs. in 6 months using only a stairmaster and a supportive wife who helped keep me on a diet. It was not a complicated diet either, I just stayed away from anything that was "crunchy, creamy, dairy or fried."

[spectre]

He had one of the best Chefs in Arkansas working for him at the Mansion creating tasty and filling low calorie meals.

He's putting the weight back on slowly, in case no one else has noticed..meow!

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