Mike Huckabee doesn’t think women should look up to Natalie Portman as a role model. He held the Black Swan star up as an example of Hollywood’s “distorted image” of single motherhood during a radio interview this week.

Host Michael Medved was the first to mention “visibly pregnant” Portman, her and her “problematic message.” Huckabee quickly expanded on the theme.

“People see a Natalie Portman or some other Hollywood starlet who boasts of, ‘Hey look, you know, we’re having children, we’re not married, but we’re having these children,’ and they’re doing just fine,” Huckabee remarked. “But, there aren’t really a lot of single moms out there who are making millions of dollars every year for being in a movie.”

Just Katie Holmes, Madonna, Sandra Bullock, Michelle Williams, Joan Crawford and Mary Louise Parker -- to quicky name a few stars who either adopted or became pregnant while unmarried (and, in Madonna's case, did both). Like Holmes, Portman is currently engaged to be married to the father of her child.

“I think it gives a distorted image,” Huckabee said. And that’s when he started crossing lines. “Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can’t get a job, and if it weren’t for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death and never have health care.”

Oh, geez. The heap of insults Huckabee laid on single moms certainly wasn’t the wisest political move we’ve ever seen, to put it mildly. Someone might have reminded Huckabee that the elderly, his strongest supporters, may not have health care without government assistance either.