California Conservative

AP reports: “Imagine this: A man from Hope with a weight problem serves more than 10 years as Arkansas governor, makes cross-country connections through his leadership of the National Governors Association and weighs a run for the White House.
Bill Clinton? Not this time.”

“Mike Huckabee, a Republican who took over as governor at the height of Clinton’s Whitewater scandal — and who lost more than 100 pounds while promoting health in an unhealthy state — is being talked up for a presidential run after he leaves the Governor’s Mansion in 2007 at age 51.

His new weight-loss book, “Quit Digging Your Grave With a Knife and Fork,” reached as high No. 9 on Amazon.com, and he has gone on a New York-to-Los Angeles book tour that has boosted the former Baptist minister’s national profile.

He also ran this year’s Little Rock Marathon with Gov. Tom Vilsack of Iowa — which happens to be the site of the first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses.”

If Huckabee “runs” for president, Dr. Phil will have to be his running mate.

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