Playing chicken
Mike Huckabee's got the smoking skin, if not gun, on Romney.
Mitt, this weekend, showed off his "man-of-the-people" side to the media by eating at a Kentucky Fried Chicken. Then, he appalled Floridians, Homer Simpson and trailer trash everywhere by pulling off the greasy skin.
In Pensacola, Fla., Huckabee, in good humor, flayed Mitt's fastidiousness.
"Going through the weight loss program I try to eat it more broiled and baked," Huck said. "But I can tell you this: any Southerner knows that if you're not gonna eat the skin, don't bother with calling it fried chicken."
Mitt's gaffe means the former Arkansas governor will win in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Huck says, "all these great Southern states that understand that the best part of fried chicken is the skin."
But Huck pushed it a little when he compared Romney's skinless fried chicken eating to Gerald Ford's catastrophic attempt to eat a tamale with a shuck on it.
"He lost Texas," Huck said of Ford. "And many believe he lost the presidency, and there are a lot of people who will believe forever that it was the shuck on the tamale — not Jimmy Carter — that beat Gerald Ford in 1976. So who knows?"
Mitt, this weekend, showed off his "man-of-the-people" side to the media by eating at a Kentucky Fried Chicken. Then, he appalled Floridians, Homer Simpson and trailer trash everywhere by pulling off the greasy skin.
In Pensacola, Fla., Huckabee, in good humor, flayed Mitt's fastidiousness.
"Going through the weight loss program I try to eat it more broiled and baked," Huck said. "But I can tell you this: any Southerner knows that if you're not gonna eat the skin, don't bother with calling it fried chicken."
Mitt's gaffe means the former Arkansas governor will win in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Huck says, "all these great Southern states that understand that the best part of fried chicken is the skin."
But Huck pushed it a little when he compared Romney's skinless fried chicken eating to Gerald Ford's catastrophic attempt to eat a tamale with a shuck on it.
"He lost Texas," Huck said of Ford. "And many believe he lost the presidency, and there are a lot of people who will believe forever that it was the shuck on the tamale — not Jimmy Carter — that beat Gerald Ford in 1976. So who knows?"
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