FORMER Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee may be the only presidential candidate to come out of the campaign with more than what he went in with.

Huckabee quietly taped a pilot in New York for a weekend cable TV show that is set to debut on Fox News Channel sometime this fall.

“I can say it’s gonna be unlike anything else that’s on Fox and maybe on cable,” the folksy politician told an Arkansas newspaper over the weekend.

He was stingy with details but said it would be taped in front of a live audience – most likely at the news channel’s studio on West 47th Street, where Fox’s “The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet” is taped on weekdays.

“Politics will be a part of it,” Huckabee says, “but it certainly won’t be all of it.”

And what if Sen. John McCain wins in November? Would he take a cabinet post if offered?

“Why would I want to do that?” Huckabee says.

“I’m gonna have a good life out here in the private sector,” he says. “Why would I go back to telling everybody in the world how much money I make and . . . barely surviving to have some obscure cabinet post and have some 20-year-old from the White House telling me what I’m gonna do?”