# Is It Just Me or Does Mike Huckabee Look Like **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 20, 2008, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-does-mike-huckabee-look-like/434217 "2008-01-20T01:56:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-does-mike-huckabee-look-like/434217/1 "2008-01-20T01:56:12Z")
The unholy spawn of a Nixon and Kevin Spacey mating? The [CNN pic of him](http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2008/POLITICS/01/19/nevada.sc.main/t1home.2000.mccain.huck.jpg) made me say, “Damn! He looks like that sonuvabitch Nixon!” I’ve seen photos of Nixon wearing a similar expression, but the closest I could find is [the one of him and Elvis](http://iams.pbwiki.com/f/nixon_and_elvis.jpg). This basically shot my idea for a “Seperated at Birth?” thread, then I realized that Huckabee had a chin [similar to Kevin Spacey’s](http://eur.i1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/xp/premiere_photo/20050906/00/107059053.jpg) and that’s when I began to wonder: Is Huckabee the result of some kind of bizarre breeding experiment involving Nixon and Spacey that somehow managed to escape from the lab? ---
**Author:** ![Sprockets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@Sprockets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sprockets)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-does-mike-huckabee-look-like/434217/2 "2008-01-20T11:58:11Z")
I think he looks - and usually acts - exactly like Gomer Pyle on “The Andy Griffith Show,” played by Jim Nabors. The difference is that Jim Nabors was quite civilized and intelligent in real life. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-does-mike-huckabee-look-like/434217/3 "2008-01-20T12:15:18Z")
I don’t see the Nixon resemblance. I have to confess, when I see Huck, I just wanna smack him. It’s irrational, to be sure, but it’s my gut reaction. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-does-mike-huckabee-look-like/434217/4 "2008-01-20T14:03:30Z")
Definitely more Jim Nabors than Nixon–Nixon had irregular facial features, IOW, he was ugly as sin. Huckabee has more regular features, but there is something about those puppy brown eyes that make want to smack him. He’s playing the Good Ole Boy a bit too much for me. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-does-mike-huckabee-look-like/434217/5 "2008-01-20T14:05:25Z")
To me, he looks like [Robert Lindsay](http://www.robertlindsay.net/). ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-does-mike-huckabee-look-like/434217/6 "2008-01-20T14:50:01Z")
I can see the Spacey connection – but not the Nixon, except for the evil nature. ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-does-mike-huckabee-look-like/434217/7 "2008-01-20T15:12:30Z")
I saw Spacey but not Nixon until you pointed it out. You’re right! ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-does-mike-huckabee-look-like/434217/8 "2008-01-20T19:37:25Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] I can see the Spacey connection – but not the Nixon, except for the evil nature. [/QUOTE] He’s Nixon from the bottom of the nose up. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-does-mike-huckabee-look-like/434217/9 "2008-01-21T03:39:24Z")
I remember the former governor looking like [this.](http://voteforbreakfast.com/images/huckabee_fat.jpg) In comparison he now resembles a zombie. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-does-mike-huckabee-look-like/434217/10 "2008-01-21T04:01:10Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] The [CNN pic of him](http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2008/POLITICS/01/19/nevada.sc.main/t1home.2000.mccain.huck.jpg) made me say, “Damn! He looks like that sonuvabitch Nixon!” [/QUOTE] [Nixon, on the beach, in 1952](http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/presvacation/5.html). ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-does-mike-huckabee-look-like/434217/11 "2008-01-21T04:03:49Z")
You are probably seeing the Nixon resemblance due to the slack skin in his face and jowls after losing a lot of weight. [Link](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0446578061/bookstorenow57-20) ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-does-mike-huckabee-look-like/434217/12 "2008-01-21T04:06:38Z")
Let’s just all agree that The Huckster looks like a creepy dork, and let it go at that. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-does-mike-huckabee-look-like/434217/13 "2008-01-21T04:11:30Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] Let’s just all agree that The Huckster looks like a creepy dork, and let it go at that. [/QUOTE] You, Sir, are a Gentleman and a Scholar and I shall take your advice. ---
**Author:** ![Sprockets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@Sprockets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sprockets)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-does-mike-huckabee-look-like/434217/14 "2008-01-21T12:00:19Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] Let’s just all agree that The Huckster looks like a creepy dork, and let it go at that. [/QUOTE] Agreed. I’m still in shock at the idea of a candidate for president - or anyone really - who “doesn’t believe in” evolution. What are they not going to believe in next? Gravity? ---
**Author:** ![nofloyd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nofloyd/32/2870_2.png) [@nofloyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nofloyd)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-does-mike-huckabee-look-like/434217/15 "2008-01-21T14:13:47Z")
Two of my coworkers have been arguing about the Kevin Spacey similarity. I don’t see it, but one of them taped up a picture of Spacey in her cubicle, declaring victory.