Beck to Huckabee: Don't Run

Politico reports:

Conservative radio host and Fox News personality Glenn Beck fired back at Mike Huckabee on Friday, saying the former Arkansas governor was "co-opting" liberal talking points and should consider staying out the race if he's so "thin-skinned."

There are "really tough issues that real conservatives will have with Mike Huckabee," Beck said on his radio show of the politician, who's weighing another run for president in 2012.

"If, sir, you are this thin-skinned about your politics, it might be best for you to stay on the sidelines" and not run, he added.

It's the latest salvo in a week-long back-and-forth over comments from Beck calling Huckabee as a "progressive" because he had defended the first lady from criticism over her good-eating initiative.

Huckabee slapped back in a blog post and with his own radio show on Thursday, saying Beck had smeared him as a "nazi" and trashing the radio host.

Beck responded in kind on Friday, playing the clip of Huckabee excoriating him — and then lacing into the politician, point by point.

"First of all Mr. Huckabee, I did not realize that I had called all progressives 'nazis,' " Beck said on his own radio show. "I have said nazis have used progressive tactics....read Goebbels, he talks about it in his diaries."