NYT Magazine writer Zev Chafets about meeting Huckabee for lunch to do a story on him: “I met Huckabee for lunch at an Olive Garden restaurant in Midtown Manhattan. (I had offered to take him anywhere he wanted and then vetoed his first choice, T.G.I. Friday’s.)”
This is why. Because he is down to earth, real, normal and rather funny. His politics, however, are something completely different: they scare me.