At the Southern Governors' Association convention on Saturday, on a speech about obesity, Mike Huckabee told the crowd:

"Today we hear a lot about the war on terror, how we need to fight it," said Huckabee, who lost 110 pounds several years ago when he was governor of Arkansas. "Let me ask this question: Who's going to fight it in the future if we're a generation so sick that we don't have the capacity to show up for work?"

Of course Huckabee has a point, but I imagine this might raise a few eyebrows with more libertarian-minded Republicans, who will see that statement and immediately think: Nanny state.