Mike Huckabee who placed second in the Iowa Straw Poll now believes he is in the top-tier of candidates.

“We’re in fact in the first tier, I think, by everybody’s estimation, and here’s why,” Huckabee told Jim Axelrod. “It wasn’t just that we surprised people with a second showing, it’s that we did it with so few resources. I mean, this really was feeding the 5,000 with two fish and five loaves, an amazing kind of day for us.”

My take? Not a chance.

It is pretty impressive how Huckabee, with a very quiet effort, was able to pull off second place. With that said he wasn’t exactly competing against political royalty. Out of only 14,000+ voters Romney had 1925 more votes than Huckabee. Compare that to the 395 more votes Huckabee had over the third place winner Brownback and you don’t exactly see an amazingly clear message about how a nation of 300 Million feel about you.

In short the Iowa Straw Poll is a media fabrication that was ditched by the main candidates this year leaving little real meaning for the event.

Filmmaker Michael Moore has made Health Care a hot issue with his new documentary film Sicko. The top three democrats have released their own comprehensive plans (Look inside Obama & Clintons) and plenty of Republicans have a lot of things to say about the film and what they term “socialized medicine”.

Mike Huckabee has something else to add:

“Frankly, Michael Moore is an example of why the health care system costs so much in this country. He clearly is one of the reasons that we have a very expensive system. I know that from my own personal experience,” said Huckabee, who lost more than 110 pounds and became an avid runner after he was diagnosed with diabetes.

“I know how much more my health care cost when I didn’t take care of myself than when I do take care of myself, not only in terms of doctor visits but regular diseases, illnesses, chronic things that come up, monthly prescription bills,” Huckabee said. “All of those things have gone dramatically down since I’ve taken care of myself and worked to live a healthier lifestyle.”

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The other day on CNN Republican candidate Mike Huckabee said the following:

“I can tell you most of our prisoners would love to be in a facility more like Guantanamo and less like the state prisons that people are in in the United States.

It’s (Guantanamo) more symbolic than it is a substantive issue because people perceive of mistreatment when in fact there are extraordinary means being taken to make sure these detainees are being given really every consideration”

The clip is making its way through the left half of the blogosphere.

Now I haven’t currently seen the movie Sicko directed by Michael Moore but the clips I’ve seen from his various media appearances actually lend some credence to the statement. Moore boasts the incredible medical facilities and treatment given to prisoners at Guantanamo and had so much love for it he attempted to bring ailing 9/11 survivors to the facility for free health care.

So what does it mean? Who knows, I just think its interesting.

From the Associated Press:

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - David Huckabee, a son of Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, was arrested at an Arkansas airport Thursday after a federal X-ray technician detected a loaded Glock pistol in his carry-on luggage.

“I removed the bag and asked Mr. Huckabee if he knew what he had in the bag,” Little Rock police officer Arthur Nugent wrote in a report after being summoned to a security checkpoint. “He replied he did now.”

Mike Huckabee who is running for the Republican nomination disagrees with the decision to fire Don Imus. He said the following:

“If Imus is going to get fired, then there’s a number of other people who need to go out the door,” said Huckabee, a frequent guest of the Imus show. “Rosie’s probably got to go. Bill Maher has to go. Gosh, half of television and talk radio has to go.”

In my opinion? One nice thing to see is that the statement doesn’t appear to have been a pre-written staffed researched one as Bill Maher is no longer on the airwaves but instead on HBO.