[Checkers]

[Perdogg]

Ask Charlie Weiss.

[conservativefromGa]

lol, you think their daughter starved to death?

[sourcery]

People with the "fat gene" can and do lose all their excess weight in a year or less. I have become a member of an organization full of an astounding number of people who have not only done just that, but have kept their ideal weight for many years afterwards. [Ref: Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous]

[No, I support the Fred, not the Huck]

[JRochelle]

This Huckabee-had-secret-surgery speculation struck me as pretty far-fetched. But you always have to ask about such stuff, so I sent a note to a top Huckabee aide, who answered:

The governor ran 9 miles yesterday and 3 this morning. He is training for the Boston Marathon while running for President. You don’t get in shape by having surgery. His weight loss was a process that many people watched him go through and can attest to. These rumors are just silly.

When you get a response like that, you always have to follow up, so I sent another note: OK, but did he have this surgery that people are talking about? The response:

No, the governor did not have bariatric surgery.

So the Huckabee campaign is on the record: no surgery. I think we’ll need to see more than speculation to claim otherwise.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/

[JRochelle]

Huckabee, Before and After [Jonah Goldberg]

A reader responds to Lisa and me:

Jonah and Lisa,
Just to clear this up: Mike Huckabee lost his weight on a supervised,
carefully managed meal replacement program begun at the University of
Arkansas for Medical Sciences, here in Little Rock. My dad lost a huge
amount of weight in this program—not as much as Huckabee, but as I
remember, 65-70 pounds. And he did it with startling rapidity, just
like Huckabee. I participated in the program this past summer but,
sadly, had to quit: as a baby attorney, I have zero spare time and not
nearly enough money to stay on the program (for now).

The program is legitimate and the people running it are strict:
participants have weekly weigh-ins and counseling, a weekly group
meeting led by a nutrionist, and regular doctor’s appointments/blood
tests. If you don’t follow the rules, you have to leave. It’s very
intense and it works quickly, as many Arkansans can attest.

I’m not 100% on the Huckabee bandwagon, but he really did buckle down
and work incredibly hard to achieve something that, I’m here to tell
you, is extremely difficult. I think he should get credit for that, not
casual insinuations of dishonesty.

Here’s just one of the news stories quoting Dr. Phillip Kern, who
started the UAMS program and oversaw Huckabee’s weight loss.

And here’s the website for the UAMS weight loss program.

If there’s hard evidence backing up the surgery rumor, I apologize. But
if there isn’t, could you please correct your posts on the Corner?
Disappointing.

[Hildy]

wow...I hate to say this, but I wouldn’t want that family as the face of America. Sorry.

[JRochelle]

In 1988 Oprah Winfrey lost 67 pounds in 4 months on the liquid diet.

Watch for loony Romneybots coming out with theories how that couldn’t have happened.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2005-11-16-oprah-liquid-diet_x.htm

[CometBaby]

Bariatric surgery???? This assumption is based on what? A guess? An emotional hunch? Wishful thinking? Gawd who cares? If he has lost weight, is healthier, then it’s all good.

[billorites]

Ugly fat rubes in bowling shirts.

I must be a hideous north-eastern elistist, but please spare me from another Clampett clan in the White House.

[Travis McGee]

Freeper Plutarch already plowed this field, superbly.

Anybody have Plutarch’s thread link handy?

[spectre]

Their daughter is quite lovely..The boys need to read Daddy dearest's book.

That said, Huckabee looked better as a fat man.

sw

[kinoxi]

They look like they could put a few ‘all you can eat’ buffets out of business.

[billorites]

My heavens, even the dog’s ugly.

[digger48]

Wow! Verticle stripes DO make you look thinner

[billorites]

Why every day to stay in shape...
Governor Huckabee takes a walk around his boys!!!

[JRochelle]

The Romney sleaze machine at its finest.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1937730/posts

With absolutely zero evidence, they go after Huckabee on the dumbest issue ever.

[billorites]

You know, until tonight
my campaign was prepared to show a TV ad here in Iowa
revealing Governor Huckabee to be the syphillitic Arkansan rube
and hideous man-pig that other people say he is.
But I forbid them from broadcasting it because I was appalled.
I was shocked even, embarrassed and disgusted...
Here, have a look, if you dare, and tell me whether I made the right decision...

[Twinkie]

By the way, can anyone venture a guess as to Hillary’s actual weight? . . and no jokes, be serious. This guess will go into your permanent record. I’m guessing about 165 lbs. . . anyone else? . . oh, and I know - it’s none of my business.

[Democrat_media]

What does it matter that the Huckster says he is a good Christian and pro-life when Huckabee will turn the U.S,. into a socialist state where we will all be starving?

Huckabee Begs For New Taxes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pLOC4krZI4

Huckabee Caught Lying About His Tax Hikes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYrGlfkvRV0&feature=related

Huckabee is a pro-illegal, pro-Amnesty, tax raising, big government loving, socialist/liberal, violent criminal pardoning, terrorist appeasing, false prophet. In other words Huckabee is really a Democrat.

Under no circumstances will I ever vote for this liberal/communist con man.

The Huckster Huckabee or Hillary will let in hundreds of millions of 3rd world socialist illegals.

The Huckster or Hillary will surrender to Iran and let Iran build a nuclear arsenal.

The Huckster or Hillary will raise taxes and increase the size of government putting the U.S. on the road to socialism which will destroy our way of life, destroy our economy, destroy our civilization.

If you think I'm exaggerating look at Huckabee's record and into the dangers of socialism.

But hey , the idiot Huckster lies and says he is pro-life so that makes all of this ok huh?

Mike Huckabee disses Americans, Mexicans, promotes illegal immigration

http://lonewacko.com/blog/archives/005609.html

Christians Need To Beware Of Mike Huckabee

http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2007/cbarchive_20071102.html

While Gov. of Arkansas, Huckabee was AGAINST proving citizenship in order to register to vote. He called those who were in favor of this “racists”..

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050218/news_lz1e18perkins.html

Huckabee fought hard to kill an Arkansas bill which would have cut off social services for illegal aliens. Huckabee called the bill, “anti-Christian” and “un-American”...

http://www.arkansasnews.com/archive/2005/01/28/News/316347.html

Huckabee supported in-state tuition for illegal aliens...

http://www.arkansasnews.com/archive/2005/03/11/News/318458.html

Huckabee’s opposition to the illegal aliens bill:

http://www.diggersrealm.com/mt/archives/000718.html

Chuck the Huck and deport this traitor:

[BallyBill]

I thought that picture was a fake.

Jeez Huck, buy the kids a football or something to keep them away from the Twinkees.