Cruising Change
February 9th, 2008Mike Huckabee is rejecting suggestions that John McCain is the party’s inevitable nominee and said he won’t quit the presidential race.
The former Arkansas governor told a cheering crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference meeting in Washington on Saturday that he “didn’t major in math,” but “majored in miracles.”
“Am I quitting? Let’s get that settled right now. No, I’m not,” Huckabee told the crowd.
It is just a short-term ploy, I think, to show McCain that he can be viable and fight a good fight, making this an open, stringless tryout for the Vice Presidency, but it might be the case that Mr. Huckabee truly believes he can win this race. If so, he’s in for a world of hurt but I don’t believe that he is a political moron and I don’t expect him to sink too much money or effort into his now-dead campaign. He’s just playing short-term politics; nothing more, nothing less.
I thought that this was good, from Slate. Everybody promises change, and so Barack Obama is nothing special in that regard. Every cycle, there’s someone promising change who looks or sounds like they can provide it but it’s just a ploy to get elected, and it usually doesn’t work. The American public is, fundamentally, content with their system of government, as I think they should be. By no means are Americans, or I (by extension) thrilled with each and every policy but not too many people want the system thrown out, and even fewer want a candidate who promises little but “change” for its own sake. That’s why McCain and Clinton are better candidates than, say, Huckabee and Obama.