I just heard a sound bite of McCain and the thought occurred to me once again- you and I could have had a Mike Huckabee. No, not as VP but as a Presidential candidate!!! As every hour ticks by the disappointment that I do not have the choice I want to have when I vote for President on Nov. 4 gets more intense.
Sure, the media would have gone nuts, the very liberals of the country would still be angry and mean, and the Romney supporters would have been furious.
But look what we have now- the media is tripping over themselves for a negative soundbite, the liberals are drooling over McCain/Palin, and the Romney people are working to do in Sarah Palin. What else is new?
We can’t go back and change the events that led to Mike Huckabee dropping from the race. Yet, sometimes we get what we deserve because we were too thick-headed, hard hearted, and just not seeing the big picture. This is the case with Huckabee. We could have had a much better choice for President- a clear choice instead of two candidates that, well, worry me a great deal with their views on important issues.
As the days and months go by, many of us will continue to believe that Huckabee was the very best choice. Now we are left with less than perfect options during a very challenging time to be an American. Sometimes I think that I will just have to hang on for 2012. I can and I will. Now if the country can just hang on that long.
Filed under: Politics, The Somebody | Tagged: 2008 presidential election, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin
I AGREE AT THIS TIME WE SHOULD HAVE HAD KEPT HUCKABEE IN FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL RUN. HE MAKES MORE STRONG SENCE. FOR OUR ISSUES OF THIS BAILOUT, FOR HIS ECONOMIC SENCE IS FAR GREATER THAN ANYOTHER WE HAVE HEARD.
NO NONSENCE, LESS NAME COLLING.
I THINK THE SAME OLD NAME CALLING OF ALL SIDES IS SICK AND WE ARE ALL READY TO DUMP THE BUNCH.
I THINK WE SHOULD HAVE KEPT HUCKABEE IN FOR THE RACE
Now more than ever we have nominated the wrong guy.
Huckabee vs. Obama………………..Huckabee almost 11 years executive experience as governor and Obama zero. Huckabee bipartisan experience working with a Democratic legislature (without alienating his own party) to get things done and Obama pretty much zero. Huckabee and Obama pretty equal on foreign policy. Huckabee’s populist message to compete with Obama’s HOPE. And most importantly right now, Huckabee is from main street and not wall street or DC. He opposes the bailout bill and even cites it as unconstitutional. He has an economic plan for US and not the rich or elite. Obama supports the bailout bill and not his constituents.
Don’t blame me, I voted Huckabee.
Karen, you brought up another great point. I would also hope that a Huckabee general election campaign would have not sunk to the depths that these two candidates have.
Huckabee had my vote, too! I have his yard signs in safe keeping for the next election.
I would not be worried for how he would do in a debate. And, yes, Karen, his campaign would have been so much more “vertical”!!!!
I always like to read positive words about Mike Huckabee.
I THINK HUCKABEE HAS A GREAT WAY OF LETTING US KNOW WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT, FACIAL EXPRESSION IS NOT THE USUAL (KNOW IT ALL) THAT WE USUALLY SEE. HE WAS VERY IMPRESSIVE ALL ALONG , JUST GAVE UP TOO SOON.
I would say Huckabee was more forced out- between Thompson and Romney and the negative ads and who know what else.
I miss his humor and wondering what fun, enlightening things he would say in a debate- that is when he was given the chance to speak.
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That was a cheap shot at Romney. There is NO evidence of his people trying to “do her in.” In fact, Romney himself said they should just let her be her, and STOP being over-handled by the McCain folks, which is why she keeps mucking it up in her interviews.
Fair is fair, and you need to stop lobbing cheap shots at Romney just for the sake of doing it. It’s tiresome and old.
‘Wrong’… no apologies from me on what I say about Romney.
You have the right to have such high regards for Romney but I do not and continue to believe that many of his supports would undermine anyone who gets in his or their way.