Sunday, August 12, 2007
Huckabee: Authentic. Christian. Conservative.
It's been a long time coming -- over two years for me -- and at the end of the day Mike Huckabee did exactly what I've been saying he'd do in the Iowa straw poll.He surprised the nation.
Huckabee, with NO money, placed a "surprising" second behind Romney, who literally spent MILLIONS to buy the poll victory. National Review's Byron York described the scene like this:
"As reporters...and fans pressed around Huckabee...in the fading daylight, less than a hundred yards away Team Romney was closing up shop, knocking down the elaborate spread — tents, music stages, kiddie playgrounds, and an impressive barbecue distribution system — that former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney had laid before the voters whose tickets he had purchased, whose buses he had rented, and whose lunches he had provided on a day that he hoped would bring him an overwhelming victory in Iowa. Instead...Romney’s celebratory words seemed a little muted."
Folks, this proves you have your authentic conservative candidate. Go now to www.MikeHuckabee.com and CONTRIBUTE. It's time to put Romney, Guiliani and the other pretenders away.
And Huckabee flat out defeated Sam Brownback, who also invested large sums of money into trying to buy poll votes. Goodbye, Sam. You're attempts to stand in the way of a better candidate are now over. Your support has never about a desire to see you become president anyway...they just want you like them because you'll still be a senator after this all over.
The significance of this for the Huckabee campaign cannot be understated. Thousands of Iowans, on a hot August Saturday, travelled to Ames -- not for food, fun and entertainment, but to show their support for a man they believe to be worthy of being the next president of the United States.
"When it was all over," York writes, "there was no doubt that the winner of the day was Huckabee. 'It is beyond huge,' Huckabee told reporters. 'Tonight, for all practical purposes, we won the Iowa straw poll. No one was even saying we would come in second…You gotta admit, for what we had to work with, the resources we had, for us to surge, coming in second, is the victory, it is the story.' He’s right."
Congratulations, Governor. Now let's go get 'em!
And you, dear reader, please go to www.MikeHuckabee.com and contribute TODAY.
BSR
