This comes straight from Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor. Before Senator John McCain of Arizona became the presumed GOP nominee, Huckabee was the only one standing in his way. Many people have thought that the Republican race would be between McCain and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.
After devastating losses on the Super Tuesday contests on February 5, Romney had dropped out of the race. Many have expected Huckabee to drop out. While Huckabee had won the Iowa Caucus, McCain won the New Hampshire Primary, and Romney won the Michigan Primary. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani staked his claim in Florida, only to lose it to McCain.
In an ironic note, Giuliani was deemed the national frontrunner before the Republican primary season. McCain’s campaign was sinking in the water trying to remain afloat that same year. While the primary season started, McCain ascended from the water while Giuliani sunk to the depths below. At the end, it was between Huckabee and McCain before the Super Tuesday II contests on March 4. McCain won more than enough delegates to clinch the nomination.
So far, Mike Huckabee has been the first former GOP hopeful of the primary season who has weighed in on McCain’s choice of VP running mate. Apparently, Huckabee is more than interested.
“There’s no one I would rather be on a ticket with than John McCain,” Huckabee said early this morning on NBC’s Meet The Press. He also implied that if he won the nomination, he would pick McCain as his running mate. In regards to McCain, Huckabee said that McCain is the right person to lead America.
Huckabee’s refusal to drop out until March 4 has forced McCain to focus on the rest of the primary contests. However, if the RNC delegate rules were similar to that of the DNC, McCain may not have been the presumed GOP nominee at this moment. In that regard, Huckabee did give a suggestion in the past that the GOP adopts the same delegate rules as the DNC.
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