John McCain,  Mike Huckabee,  President 2008

Mike Huckabee Calls McCain a Gerald Ford 1976 Loser

US Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee speaking at the University of Maryland in College Park. Huckabee may still be a long shot in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, but his weekend victories in Kansas and Louisiana proved he is likely to be a thorn in the side of frontrunner John McCain for some time to come.

Mike Huckabee must have figured out that he would NOT be selected as likely GOP nominee John McCain’s Vice President.

Speaking at a press conference after addressing Thomas Road Baptist Church, Huckabee continued to compare himself to Ronald Reagan, who ran in 1976 against the party establishment, which led to a floor fight at the national convention. When reminded that the Republicans lost the 1976, Huckabee said it wasn’t because the party was divided, but because Gerald Ford did not energize the party.

“He never championed himself as a conservative, not a pro-life person for whom that was important,” Huckabee said. “He was a really nice moderate Republican, a true gentleman. But a member of Congress and more a part of the Washington Republican establishment than representing the grassroots of conservatism.”

And in a thinly veiled reference to McCain, Huckabee went on to say Republicans could lose again with a similar candidate.
“I would argue that if we do not have a candidate who can excite the base of this country, and particularly the base of our party and make them energetic and going out and getting the folks to put the yard signs in and making phone calls and traveling all over the country asking people to vote, we can lose again,” he said.

Huckabee is becoming unmanageable and a loose cannon. Does he really think he has a political future after his failure to withdraw and by sticking a finger in John McCain’s eye?

The answer is NO.

Mike Huckabee who is a pro-life Evangelical Christian LIBERAL has NO future in the GOP outside of Arkansas.