I’m going to go out on a limb and assume Mike Huckabee didn’t meet his wife Janet at a Public Speaking 101 class. Her speech at the Huck and Chuck event I attended was longer than both of the event’s namesakes and never approached anything resembling even an amateur coherence. Granted, it was kind of fun to watch in a So this is what it was like for Alice when she reached the end of that rabbit hole way and she seems like a sweet enough lady. Beginning with a self-posed question (“What makes her even think she can serve as First Lady?”), however, her twenty minute answer as to why she was “fixin'” to fill Laura Bush’s shoes–something along the lines of…well, apparently the military let her do really cool things while she was Arkansas First Lady like jump out of planes and watch them blow things up at night (What the devil is going on in that state?)–left the crowd unresponsive at its best moments, confused at its worst. Suffice to say Chuck Norris got a better response with his dead rat mouth story.

“When ladies started running for governor, it messed up the whole First Lady thing,” Janet Huckabee declared during a tangent on the new term “First Spouse.” It can be said with some certainty we’ll never have to worry about anything like that from the Huckabees. There will be no Elizabeth Kucinich/Janet Huckabee race in 2012.