Where Is Huckabee?
Sunday January 27, 2008
With Florida two days away, Mike Huckabee should be starting to squirm.
One of the final tests before Super Tuesday on Feb. 5, Florida is a key to every remaining campaign in the race (a GOP debate Wednesday night is another big test). Meanwhile, Huckabee has to be wondering if fickle momentum has named him its foe. Since his surprising, out-of-the-gate win in Iowa on Jan. 3, Huckabee has run out of money, was slammed and shunned by the New York Times on Friday and is placing somewhere at the back of the pack near Texas Congressman Ron Paul and former UN Ambassador Alan Keyes in the Florida polling.
In an endorsement for the front-running Arizona Sen. John McCain, the Times called Huckabee "affable" but took issue with him on Hucka-taxes, Hucka-religion and Hucka-immigration. He was precluded from the Oval Office, the Times said, because he backed Mitt Romney into a corner about his Mormon faith.
The Times was equally uncharitable to Romney, who, according to the newspaper, has become barely recognizable since stepping down (apparently to the far right) as governor of Massachussetts.
The editorial also gutted former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, accusing him of just about everything except holding illegal cardgames in the basement of Times Square. Giuliani, who polls indicate is now running behind both Romney and McCain in Florida, has staked his entire campaign on winning the state. Pundits are starting to ask why -- a question I asked a couple of weeks ago!
Huckabee should be thankful: at least he was mentioned in the Times editorial. Paul and Keyes weren't even thrown into a paragraph together.
But just where does this leave Huckabee? He offered a few feeble remarks in response to the editorial in this CNN.com story, but he has mostly been a spectator since Iowa. If he doesn't get his hands on large amounts of cash -- and soon -- he may be singing for his supper next year, instead of leading the country.
One of the final tests before Super Tuesday on Feb. 5, Florida is a key to every remaining campaign in the race (a GOP debate Wednesday night is another big test). Meanwhile, Huckabee has to be wondering if fickle momentum has named him its foe. Since his surprising, out-of-the-gate win in Iowa on Jan. 3, Huckabee has run out of money, was slammed and shunned by the New York Times on Friday and is placing somewhere at the back of the pack near Texas Congressman Ron Paul and former UN Ambassador Alan Keyes in the Florida polling.
In an endorsement for the front-running Arizona Sen. John McCain, the Times called Huckabee "affable" but took issue with him on Hucka-taxes, Hucka-religion and Hucka-immigration. He was precluded from the Oval Office, the Times said, because he backed Mitt Romney into a corner about his Mormon faith.
The Times was equally uncharitable to Romney, who, according to the newspaper, has become barely recognizable since stepping down (apparently to the far right) as governor of Massachussetts.
The editorial also gutted former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, accusing him of just about everything except holding illegal cardgames in the basement of Times Square. Giuliani, who polls indicate is now running behind both Romney and McCain in Florida, has staked his entire campaign on winning the state. Pundits are starting to ask why -- a question I asked a couple of weeks ago!
Huckabee should be thankful: at least he was mentioned in the Times editorial. Paul and Keyes weren't even thrown into a paragraph together.
But just where does this leave Huckabee? He offered a few feeble remarks in response to the editorial in this CNN.com story, but he has mostly been a spectator since Iowa. If he doesn't get his hands on large amounts of cash -- and soon -- he may be singing for his supper next year, instead of leading the country.
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