Eh, I kind of disagree with this part. Yes, any mockery of any person’s physical appearance is sort of shallow. But the thing about Callista Gingrich is that she is kind of scary looking precisely because she is clearly trying so hard to fit a socially constructed standard of beauty. If she looked like any sort of range of normal for a 45-year-old woman, from MILF to matronly to flat-out homely, I would agree making fun of her looks would be totally out of bounds.
Add to this the people who think Mike Huckabee’s name makes him sound like an idiot. (Which is ethnic bias. It is. Bias against hillbillies.) No, backing the FAIR Tax makes him sound like an idiot.
Yeah, this part I can kind of get behind. Mike Huckabee is actually a reasonably close cousin of mine, and I have Huckabees in my family tree on my mother’s side. I have childhood memories of “Grandma Huckabee” (who was actually my great-grandmother). Don’t be hatin’ on Huckabees (just on right-wing wing-nuttery).