Huckabee picks a fight with a bag of chips

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It’s not unusual in an election cycle for national candidates to pick some fights. Usually, though, candidates are strategic about the confrontations, taking on primary rivals, the other party, occasionally a critical news outlet, etc.

Leave it to Mike Huckabee, however, to start a feud with a bag of chips. Time magazine reported yesterday:

At 3% in national polls, Mike Huckabee faces an uphill fight against more than dozen Republican candidates for the presidential nomination. But that hasn’t stopped him from adding another opponent in recent weeks: a bag of rainbow-colored chips.

They’re not just any chips. They’re a limited edition Doritos product called “Rainbow Doritos,” presented as a partnership between Doritos’ parent company Frito-Lay and the It Gets Better project. Donate $10 or more to the It Gets Better Project, an organization dedicated to fighting anti-LGBT bullying, and you get mailed a bag of Rainbow Doritos. The campaign was so popular that Frito-Lay is already out of Rainbow Doritos.

The Republican presidential hopeful, however, isn’t happy. Huckabee has urged Frito-Lay to distance itself from the It Gets Better Project – the former governor is particularly outraged by sex columnist Dan Savage’s role in the project – and according to Time’s article, he also “called on Christians to boycott all snacks made by the company.”

Just at face value, Huckabee’s priorities seem odd. When a candidate for the nation’s highest office is outraged by bags of snacks, it’s probably time for a shift in focus.

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[daleanime]

1. For Huckabee a fight with a bag of chips...

is a couple of steps up from his weight class.

[Lizzie Poppet]

4. Beat me to it!

My exact thought...

[leftofcool]

2. Hey Huckleberry, you really should check out the pasta aisle at the grocery store

Have you seen those boxes of tri-colored rotini?

[countingbluecars]

5. Also the cereal aisle!

[leftofcool]

8. Well, that is probably why they call them "fruit loops" ya know.

[longship]

12. Count Chocula!! Lucky Charms!!!!

And, of course, Fruit Loops!!!!

It has long been known that the cereal aisle is chock full of anti-Christian evil. Don't get me started about Tony, the tiger.

[Gothmog]

3. The Huckster is getting desparate

[shenmue]

6. Nom nom nom

[Marrah_G]

7. What a loser :)

[joeybee12]

9. Apparently aligning himself with the bigot Kim Davis didn't...

gain him any traction...so he's moved on.

[geek tragedy]

10. This is round 2. First round was his fight with "all that." nt

[pamela]

11. hahahaha

still laughing

[yellowcanine]

13. Rainbow Chips, meh. Someone should warn Chuckles about this little gal.

[Arugula Latte]

14. Plus "Doritos" sounds verrry Mexicanish!

A menace from below!

[closeupready]

15. Another day, another opportunity for Huckabee to talk about gay sex.

Or at least think about it, and to show how much he hates gayness.

[tabasco]

16. Physically, Huck could probably beat the bag of chips,

but not mentally.

[hunter]

17. More darkly, it implies he supports the bullying of LGBT kids.

http://www.itgetsbetter.org

[nolabear]

18. He knows better than to take on Dan directly.

I knew Dan Savage a little years back and he's all over the literary scene here in Seattle. You do NOT want to go toe to toe with him in a war of words. He's smart, fearless, and very pissed off. He'd wipe the floor with Huck.

[Jim Lane]

19. Someone should do a matchup Presidential poll of Huckabee versus a bag of chips

I suspect that Huckabee would win but that it would be embarrassingly close.

[ryan_cats]

20. Careful, they're ruffled.

Careful, they're ruffled.