[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/

[Plutarch]

If Huckabee actually lost weight through diet/exercise, I will be the first to congratulate him. Until researching this article I hadn't realized how futile nonsurgical weight loss was for severe obesity. If he did it "the old fashioned way" his achievement is truly remarkable, and as I mentioned in my original post, if anything he has been too modest.

I applaud the Huckabee campaign for forthrightly answering NRO's question (and NRO for asking).

If Huckabee is concerned his spokesman's denial is insufficient, he can put this permanently and definitvely to rest in 20 minutes. He can sign a release for medical records, fax that to the Radiology facility at which he likely had a CT scan in 2005, and request that the facility fax the radiologist's report to NRO. The CT image can also be electronically transmitted. If these demonstrate a normal stomach, then Huckabee's vindication will be complete.

[Krankor]

Why not ask if he had any kind of surgery to lose weight.
Why didn’t the spokesperson just say, “No, he had no surgery of any kind to help him lose weight.” They seem to kinda dance around the issue.