Did Huckabee Really Lose the Weight Naturally?

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Did Huckabee Really Lose the Weight Naturally?

When I first heard the theory that Mike Huckabee didn't really lose
110 lbs simply through diet and exercise as he claims(but through
Gastric Bypass Surgery), I thought even I could shoot holes through
the argument and therefore it wasn't justified to throw out that kind
of rumor. But after NRO and Slate began discussing the possibilities,
I decided to take a look at the evidence and I was surprised at what I
found.

If you trace all the evidence, and the likelihood of all this evidence
occuring to one person-Governor Huckabee-then you quickly realize what
a stretch it would be to believe that Huckabee didn't have Gastric
Bypass Surgery.

The evidence put together at Plutarch's Weblog is long and convincing,
but here's the summary of it:

We've considered a host of clinical factors so as to determine
whether each is best explained by bariatric surgery or diet/exercise.
The findings are as follows:

1. Huckabee's vague history of diet/exercise doesn't adequately
explain his astonishing result.
2. His spokeswoman gives an ambiguous denial.
3. Massive and persistent weight loss with bariatric surgery is
orders of magnitude more common than with diet/exercise.
4. Huckabee's weight loss record fits the pattern of gastric
bypass surgery exactly for rapidity, amount and maintenance, and not
at all like that of diet/exercise.
5. Huckabee demonstrates changes in physical appearance that
appear bariatric both in general and the specific (hair loss and skin
changes).
6. His particular diet habits are tellingly bariatric.
7. Just prior to his rapid weight loss he took an unusual vacation
with a furtive itinerary and end date.
8. In 2005 he needed an abdominal hernia repair, an expected
complication of bariatric surgery, and this was explained to be a
Spigelian hernia, a vanishingly rare hernia type that is best
explained as an apparent cover story.
9. His marathon prowess is not so likely to be an example of
exercise inducing weight loss, as it is the expected result of
(bariatric) weight loss permitting exercise.
10. While running marathons Huckabee is shown carrying that energy
supplementation, that is both expected of, and associated with,
bariatric marathoners.
11. The lack of any identified witnesses to the bariatric surgery/
hospitalization is adequately explained by medical privacy ethical
standards as well as the rigor of Federal law.

While Huckabee could easily prove that no such surgery has taken place
in less than an hour, he has yet to do so. If the rumors are true, and
Huckabee wins the nomination, you can guarantee the Dems bring this to
light and use it to tear away the only platform upon which he has
gained support-Evangelicals who would end up staying home in the
general election.