Mike Huckabee on Sunday’s “Meet the Press“:

MR. RUSSERT:  All right.  Before you go, I have to ask you about this comment on…
GOV. HUCKABEE:  All right.
MR. RUSSERT:  “Morning Joe”’s program back in January.
GOV. HUCKABEE:  OK.
MR. RUSSERT:  “When I was in college, we used to take a popcorn popper–because that was the only thing” many of us–”they would let us use in the dorms”…
GOV. HUCKABEE:  Yeah.
MR. RUSSERT:  …”and we would fry squirrel in the popcorn poppers in the dorm room.”
GOV. HUCKABEE:  Yeah.  Yeah.  We really did that.  We really did.
MR. RUSSERT:  Did you eat them?
GOV. HUCKABEE:  Well, of course you–we ate them.
MR. RUSSERT:  What does it taste like?
GOV. HUCKABEE:  I should say it tastes a lot like chicken, but it doesn’t.
MR. RUSSERT:  What’s it taste like?
GOV. HUCKABEE:  It, it tastes like squirrel.  It’s not the best thing in the world but, you know, when you go squirrel hunting, you got to do something with those things.  And part of it was just to say we could do it.  I mean, it was a college thing.  I mean, but fried squirrel is a Southern delicacy.  You got to know that.
MR. RUSSERT:  But you’re off the squirrel now?
GOV. HUCKABEE:  I haven’t eaten fried squirrel I think since college.  Thank the Lord.  I don’t…

Believe it or not, that wasn’t the strangest part of the interview.

This was:

MR. RUSSERT:  This may help you in Virginia.
GOV. HUCKABEE:  It may kill me up–in other states, however.

Virginia is for squirrels?  What are we, chopped squirrel liver?  If Virginians like voting for squirrel eaters, imagine what must motivate the folks who vote in West Virginia.  Maybe they go for candidates who eat ferrets?

By the way, if Huckabee is still in the race by the time Pennsylvania votes, I’ll give him five bucks to campaign in this joint: