Mike Huckabee, who was viewed as the witty nice-guy of the 2008 presidential race, has gone off on some weird tangents in recent days.  
First, he referred several times in an interview to the world view of President Obama after “growing up in Kenya” (he grew up in Hawaii). 
Then, he chose to make an issue of actress Natalie Portman’s pregnancy (the father is her fiancée). 
Next, Huckabee cited a bloated statistic, claiming obesity disqualifies three out of four young Americans from military service (he actual total is closer to one in four).

And he blatantly altered the story about the prison inmate he released, while serving as Arkansas governor, who launched a murder spree in Seattle (read more here).

But before that, he engaged in some silly denials when the media asked whether his disdain for Mitt Romney might motivate him to run for president again.
“That’s absurd. It’s beyond absurd,” he told reporters as he embarked on his national book tour.
Here’s the problem: Huckabee’s opinion of the former Massachusetts governor is not based on rumor or speculation, it’s tied to Huckabee’s book about the prior campaign.
According to Politico, he laid out his grievances with Romney in the post-2008 campaign retrospective, “Do the Right Thing,” which made major headlines for its candid portrayal of Romney, son of former Michigan governor George Romney and a wealthy former businessman, as a phony, an elitist, one who flipped positions and who snubbed his rivals unnecessarily throughout the campaign.
“He spent more time on the road to Damascus than a Syrian camel driver. And we thought nobody could fill John Kerry’s flip-flops!” Huckabee wrote in the tome, adding at another point that the Massachusetts pol “was anything but conservative until he changed all the light bulbs in his chandelier in time to run for president.”