Meet Mike Huckabee, America's Next Top Diet Guru-In-Chief

Maybe you hadn't gotten around to familiarizing yourself with Mike Huckabee, so since he's leading the Republican race in Iowa and I have a copy of The Economist in my bathroom I'm gonna give you a primer. Huckabee is one of those guys who used to be really fat but miraculously managed to lose 110 pounds without the help of a reality show. How'd he do that? JESUS. No, actually, I think he just stopped eating so much, because the resultant book is called Stop Digging Your Grave With Your Knife And Fork. Like Bill Clinton, he's from Hope, Arkansas, and even though Bill blurbed his book Huckabee likes to crack to voters that they should "Give Hope another chance" because he's a preacher and pro-life but sorta anti-free trade and pro raising taxes, which sounds like such an obviously attractive mix of viewpoints to reach those "heartland" types that you sort of can't believe no one thought of it earlier, but remember they're Republicans. Anyhow! More »