Huckabee’s Alamo “Our Flag Waves Proudly From The Wall”
ABC News’ Kevin Chupka Reports: Governor Huckabee’s probable last stand in Texas started with a brief meet and greet at a Dallas polling location.
The location was almost devoid of actual voters, but a group of Huckabee supporters held signs as Huckabee held an impromptu press conference in the parking lot.
The former Arkansas Governor was asked about what may be his final battle while here in Texas. Fond of using Alamo imagery while here in the Lonestar state Huckabee once again spoke of his campaign’s similarities to William Barrett Travis’ Alamo fighters, "if those folks had come to his (Travis’) aid the Alamo might have been a different story. I’m still waiting for the Texans to come to my aide. I’ve sent them a letter, I’ve asked them to come with all dispatch. We’ve answered the cannonade with a cannon shot of our own and our flag still waves proudly from the wall. We shall never surrender or retreat so we’ll see which part of the letter holds true today."
Watch the VIDEO HERE.
While Huckabee is quick to say he expects nothing short of victory here in Texas, he spoke at great length about the possibility of a McCain nomination.
"I think Republicans are going to support the nominee and if John McCain is the nominee I think Republicans will support him," Huckabee said. "Question is will he reach out to the strong conservatives in the party and cause them to want to work hard? Will they vote for him, yes. Will they line up and do what they have historically done that causes us win rather than lose elections which is the knocking on the doors and making the phone calls? That’s going to be the challenge he’ll have. He’ll have to reach out and make those voters believe that he cares and will champion their issues, otherwise it’ll be a tough sell."
Huckabee also outlined his plans going forward, but would not offer details; offering only that he hoped to be able to spend a night or two at home in Little Rock with his dogs.
"After tonight, regardless of the outcome, whether we win or if we don’t, we’ve got to sit down tomorrow and tomorrow’s gonna be a day of sorta looking at the landscape and seeing what’s ahead and where do we go from here."
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Huck-a-who? The only thing that Huckabee has been successful in doing in this right is to spawn a bunch of right wing bloggers that are posing as Hillary bashers to keep the junior senator from Illinois propped up in the contest.
Posted by: WestCoastMessenger | March 4, 2008, 4:09 pm 4:09 pm
Huck gets chucked tonight and the party goes down with McCain. Ahh great; As Bob Dole was the sacrifical lamb to the slaughter for her husband, McCain (otherwise known as Bob Dole part II) is the lamb for this second coronation of the Hilliary charade. Ah Republican party, remember when you actually stood for something? Ahh well… If invading and occupying every country for their resources, engineering a worthless carbon tax that taxes population instead of pollution (thanks UN) and violating people’s rights of free speech who don’t agree with the tyranny of the majority (thanks campaign finance reform) is considered “conservative”, let alone Republican these days, count me OUT! No wonder all the Republican’s are voting in the other primary for Hilliary today… Her and McCain are one in the same. It’s good to see now that the Democrats will have FOUR canidates to choose from tonight. The Republican party is freakin’ DEAD!
Posted by: cba | March 4, 2008, 7:18 pm 7:18 pm
GOP Conservatives need to quit whining about getting stuck with McCain! You had a chance to nominate a reasonably conservative guy who had a good chance nationwide–Romney. Instead, you chose to split your votes and squabble over Fred versus Huckabee, neither of whom was electable.
Posted by: carl | March 5, 2008, 11:46 am 11:46 am