Posted on 02/20/2008 2:04:57 AM PST by Kurt Evans
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee vowed Tuesday to continue his campaign for the White House despite another loss to presumptive nominee Arizona Sen. John McCain in the Wisconsin GOP primary.
"It's not about ego," Huckabee told reporters at the Peabody Hotel after he telephoned McCain to congratulate him on winning the Wisconsin primary.
"Let me assure you that my ego doesn't enjoy these kind of evenings where we don't win the primary election," he said, adding there are several issues, such as pro-life and taxes, he wants to continue to speak out on and hopes to do so at the Republican National Convention in September.
"It's about convictions, it's about principles that I dearly, dearly believe in," he said.
Huckabee is running a distant second to McCain, who has won a series of state primaries since the Jan. 8 New Hampshire primary and holds what experts call an almost insurmountable lead in delegates race. A candidate needs 1,191 delegates to clinch the Republican nomination.
McCain also has been endorsed by former Republican rival Mitt Romney and former President George H.W. Bush.
"Clearly I'm disappointed with the results in Wisconsin," Huckabee said, adding he will remain in the race until either he or McCain secures the necessary delegates to win the nomination.
"We're really going against an incredible headwind every day, and what I have to remind individual voters is that their voice and their vote still count," he said.
Huckabee said he plans to campaign in Texas today and is optimistic he can win that state, which along with Ohio, holds its primary March 4.
"We're going to be working hard to try to get to as many voters as we can," he said, adding he hopes to force a brokered convention, meaning neither he nor McCain will have the necessary delegates before the September convention, and it will be up to the delegates at the convention to elect the nominee.
"We're going to keep marching on," he said. "There are millions of Republicans across the country who have yet to be heard from. Ending this race prematurely means they don't get a voice and they don't have a choice."
"I know there are those who say 'let's just get this over with,' but folks, elections can be messy."
Mark Levin calls him, “The Dope from Hope.” Good name for him.
I hope he stays in now. It gives McCain a reason to give a victory speech after every primary so that he can start attacking Obama.
If he believes this is possible, he is not as smart as people say.
If McCain falls ill, Romney comes back, and McCain tells his delegates to support Romney.
Mike Huckabee: Jim Jones without the Kool Aid.
What's old saying? A fool and his money are soon parted. Obviously, some people have to prove it is still true.
The money would be much better spent donated to this web site. JimRob would at least do something useful with it!
As one of said students I would like to personally disavow any connection to Mike Huckabee.
McCain has already made that pledge. There it is a matter of weather you believe him.
Le’s also remember that when George Bush was elected in 2000 and reelected in 2004 he was pro-amnesty each time. Admittedly they were not exactly high priority items for him, but they were in his official agenda (under nicer sounding names) each time.
So, by comparison to 2000 and 2004, we have a president who has been elected (if McCain is elected of course) after claiming to have learned from the electorate that they want “security first”, and not long after overwhelming opposition of the American public killed his amnesty bill in the last congress.
It would seem to the that the prospect of amnesty are dim during a McCain administration, at least during the first once. We might need to reconsider things based on new information if he runs for reelection.
I still want a chance to vote for Huckabee so I hope he stays in the race. At this point, it might be better for him to just promote LIFE and the FairTax rather then trying to get every vote he can. I hope he can pull off a win in TX.
Huckabee Fair Tax.
If he wants voters like you, and is willing to sell you snake oil to get you, why stop there?
Why not just go all the way and claim that he will eliminate all taxes everywhere?
A conservative tax plan is snake oil?
“I still want a chance to vote for Huckabee so I hope he stays in the race. At this point, it might be better for him to just promote LIFE and the FairTax rather then trying to get every vote he can. I hope he can pull off a win in TX.”
Maybe border security too:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=h3RgVKFVKQY
It is about principles. See campaign.
Why do you think so?
Ronald Reagan must have been pretty dumb in 1976, then, too. How do you suppose he gained so much sense, after that?
Gotta love the "conservatism" of self-centeredness.
If any of the above are Romney or Thompson backers, no difference, really.
Same with the people taken aback by uppity Christians
Crabs in a barrel. Haven't got anything better to do than to pee all over Reagan's "11th Commandment" and slander a critically important conservative leader.
Good God, give it a rest--any criticism of any Christian, and the Huckaboids rush to play victim.
So much for the days when conservatives mocked victim posing--now it's all some of them do.
Good God, give it a rest--any criticism of any Christian, and the Huckaboids rush to play victim. So much for the days when conservatives mocked victim posing--now it's all some of them do.
That could be an insightful comment -- if it applied to anything.
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