Huckabee could take his act on the road

Mike Huckabee’s bid for the Republican presidential nomination looks hopeless, but he continues to charm audiences on the campaign trail with his affability and folksy wit. In the days before Tuesday’s Wisconsin primary, the former Arkansas governor quipped that:

* He was accustomed to rough political fights from his experience in Arkansas, where being a Republican in a state with powerful Democratic politicians was “like being a fire hydrant in a neighborhood filled with dogs.”

* In Arkansas, “we call [armadillos] . . . possum on the half-shell.”

* He was not considering a run for the Senate, saying there was a better chance he would “get tattooed and go out on the town with [singer] Amy Winehouse.”

* Given his state’s history of political corruption, “They used to say the five most feared words in Arkansas politics were: ‘Will the defendant please rise?’ ”

-- James Rainey