When Mike Huckabee dies, the authorities are going to have to post a 24-hour vigiliant watch on his grave…because he will try to claw his way out. Or, more trendily, as the opening segment of the direct-to-DVD Futurama movie Bender's Big Score declared about the series: "It Just Won't Stay Dead!"
Following days of glowing coverage by the media, replete with headlines about how "the path [was] clear for McCain" and the sobriquet "presumptive nominee" was placed in front of his name, three states went out and voted on Saturday. The results were a shocking indictment (again) of the media's obsession with declaring Mike Huckabee dead. The voters of Kansas, Washington State, and Louisiana delivered enough of an electric shock to get the campaign breathing again.
Despite being an avid Huckabee supporter, I've often—to quote President Bush—"misunderestimated" the staying power of Governor Huckabee. Polls showed no more than four states in Huckabee's pocket in the run-up to Super Tuesday, with Alabama and Georgia turning away toward McCain. When I did phone calls the Monday before Super Tuesday, I spoke to a man in Alabama who said that he preferred Huckabee to McCain, but Huckabee's numbers were turning south, and he didn't want Romney to end up winning.
Well, Huckabee's numbers were turning South all right, he ended up sweeping the region. And last night, the governor's campaign proved that they could remain competitive outside of the Midwest and South by very nearly upsetting John McCain in Washington State (not the most evangelical of states, by any stretch of the imagination).
As we look toward the Potomac Primary this Tuesday, I can only repeat the mantra that I have learned by experience. Every time Mike Huckabee gets counted out, he shows us that he seems to have a Methuselahan approach to dying.
Following days of glowing coverage by the media, replete with headlines about how "the path [was] clear for McCain" and the sobriquet "presumptive nominee" was placed in front of his name, three states went out and voted on Saturday. The results were a shocking indictment (again) of the media's obsession with declaring Mike Huckabee dead. The voters of Kansas, Washington State, and Louisiana delivered enough of an electric shock to get the campaign breathing again.
Despite being an avid Huckabee supporter, I've often—to quote President Bush—"misunderestimated" the staying power of Governor Huckabee. Polls showed no more than four states in Huckabee's pocket in the run-up to Super Tuesday, with Alabama and Georgia turning away toward McCain. When I did phone calls the Monday before Super Tuesday, I spoke to a man in Alabama who said that he preferred Huckabee to McCain, but Huckabee's numbers were turning south, and he didn't want Romney to end up winning.
Well, Huckabee's numbers were turning South all right, he ended up sweeping the region. And last night, the governor's campaign proved that they could remain competitive outside of the Midwest and South by very nearly upsetting John McCain in Washington State (not the most evangelical of states, by any stretch of the imagination).
As we look toward the Potomac Primary this Tuesday, I can only repeat the mantra that I have learned by experience. Every time Mike Huckabee gets counted out, he shows us that he seems to have a Methuselahan approach to dying.
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