End Of The Road For Huckabee Nearing?
If so, that would be bad news for John McCain, since Huckabee’s supporters would be more likely to swing Romney’s way:
Battling to stay competitive after his weekend loss in South Carolina, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is taking new steps to save money, including no longer scheduling planes and buses for journalists trying to cover his presidential campaign.
Huckabee said he will continue to campaign in Florida on a shoestring budget, but added that he may pull out of the state before its Jan. 29 Republican primary if his prospects look dim.
“I don’t want to abandon Florida yet,” Huckabee told reporters Monday on a late-night flight from Orlando to Atlanta, where he planned to campaign Tuesday. “We have not come to the conclusion that Florida is out of play.”
He said his campaign will evaluate the Florida situation day by day. Meanwhile, he said, he will find time to campaign in several other southern states holding primaries on Feb. 5.
So he’ll be in through Super Tuesday, but he’s about to give up Florida…the fat lady may be warming up…
He won’t be missed, by me anyway. I said after he won in Iowa that he was the popular guy of the moment, that people didn’t know much about him, and likened his new-found support to people trying on a hat or new set of clothes. Well, now that we all know so much more about the guy we apparently have decided the fit ain’t so great; he is the horizontal stripes make us look fat.
Big guy plays the bass
But the sour notes are too many
Huckabee is done.
One too many syllables in the second line, tms.
Huckster’s strapped for cash
Florida will show us the
South shan’t rise again
If you say the word fast enough it is only one syllable! Take out ‘too’, it still works.
But I like yours better anyway.
First of all, now that Thompson is officially out, I suspect he will stay in at least until Florida.
Second, I think the argument that his departure helps Romney more than McCain is debatable. According to Pew, Romney has a nine point negative rating among Huckabee supporters, while McCain has a 30 point positive rating. Seems to me that McCain could carry the majority of those voters.
I second what Sean wrote. The media spin seems to be that evangelicals don’t like mormons. Or it could be that presidential politics is, as it always has been, as much about personality as about issues — and Romney comes across as slick, while Huckabee presents himself as a plain-folks straight-shooter…
I’m now rooting for a Giuliani win in Florida — to take the shine off McCain (and make my vote on 2/5 potentially meaningful). (In the end, I could vote for either of them, or for Romney… especially when I look at who they’re likely to be running against.)
Romney will take Florida and the nomination with Huckie as VP.
If Romney takes Florida, he may very well take the nomination, Michael…you may be right. But Huckabee as VP? That part sounds like a stretch…