Huckabee's humor

HUCKABEE'S HUMOR: Mike Huckabee's rise to the top tier of Republican presidential candidates is in part due to his ability to throw off witty, self-deprecating one-liners that reveal his populist streak. "It'll be an amazing journey when the White House is occupied by somebody who's not necessarily Ivy League, but who everybody else has written off as bush league," he says of himself.

On another occasion he said, "People asked me when I ran for office in Arkansas if all the Baptists were active in my campaign. I said, 'Every one of them were active. Half for me, half against me, but they all were active.'" Huckabee no doubt honed his skillful use of humor when he was a Baptist preacher--to help make his sermons go down more easily (New Republic, December 31).

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