San Diego ( CNN ) As parents , we want to be careful to protect our children from the wrong influences . Just because someone is famous and has a following among a certain segment of society does n't mean they 're a good role model for youth . One group in particular comes to mind . They 're essentially minimally talented narcissists who are starved for public attention , and they will say and do shocking and inappropriate things to get it . Truth be known , many of them are not the best people in the world . I speak , of course , of politicians — and , in particular , of Mike Huckabee . The former Arkansas governor and GOP presidential candidate is rumored to be interested — along with about 14 other Republican hopefuls — in making a White House bid in 2016 . It will be a long , hard slog for Huckabee , a second-tier candidate , who — if he enters the race — is likely to find himself battling former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania , retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson , and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas for the votes of evangelical Christians . Republicans believe that President Obama is in over his head , and they want to restore adult supervision to the White House . Huckabee , who until recently hosted a cable television show , has a juvenile habit of shooting from the lip with commentary that is unplugged and unfiltered . In the process of making the press rounds for his new book , `` God , Guns , Grits and Gravy , '' Huckabee has already said a few things — about the first family and pop star Beyonce Knowles — that are hostile , hurtful , hateful and harmful . In fact , in a recent interview for People magazine , he did n't just step on one minefield but a whole lot of them . Concerning the Obamas , Huckabee is shocked that the President and first lady Michelle Obama allow their daughters , Malia and Sasha , to be part of Beyonce 's fan base . As an ordained Baptist minister , Huckabee does n't approve of some of the performer 's songs and on-stage behavior . Politician . Talk show host . Minister . And now , music critic . Huckabee does get around . The Republican sees a conflict between how conscientious the Obamas are about most things concerning their daughters , and this one area where the girls have the freedom to idolize one of their favorite entertainers . LZ : Beyonce , what have you done ? `` I do n't understand how on one hand they can be such doting parents and so careful about the intake of everything — how much broccoli they eat and where they go to school , and making sure they 're kind of sheltered and shielded from so many things , '' Huckabee told the magazine . `` And yet they do n't see anything that might not be suitable for either a preteen or a teen in some of the lyrical content and choreography of Beyonce . '' Huckabee was just getting warmed up . His next target : Jay Z , music mogul and Beyonce 's husband . About Jay Z , Huckabee wonders : `` Does it occur to him that he is arguably crossing the line from husband to pimp by exploiting his wife as a sex object ? '' No . He did not just go there . What a tin ear . For someone who communicates for a living , you would think that Huckabee would know enough to avoid taking one of the most successful African-American businessmen in the country and comparing him to — of all things — a pimp . Really ? While Republicans like Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky talk about the importance of reaching out to African-Americans , Huckabee may have reached a new low in terms of offending them . So where did Huckabee go wrong ? First , if you have a problem with the President , take it to him but leave his kids out of it . Second , if you want to come across to the rest of America as a serious candidate , try talking about serious things and avoid these Dan Quayle-Murphy Brown moments where you try to score points off something in popular culture . Third , if you do n't see the problem with comparing a prominent and successful African-American businessman with a pimp , you had better check your common sense tank but you 're running low . Fourth , leave the music reviews to the professionals , and , the next time you decide to attack a performer , try choosing an outlier and not someone so embedded in the mainstream that she has sold more than 75 million records — just as a solo artist . And fifth , you can critique the other side 's policies all day long but you should really skip the parenting advice since it 's one thing to accuse someone of being a bad president , and quite another to say they 're a bad parent . You just do n't go there . Even in the brass-knuckled world of politics , there are rules to be followed and lines that should not be crossed . Huckabee crossed one . For that , he ought to be ashamed . And he ought to be apologetic . Then he ought to be quiet .
Mike Huckabee is rumored to be interested in running for president in 2016 . Score: 6