Huckabee’s Changing Strategy

J.J. Jackson* | February 25, 2008

Filed Under Eyes on 2008, General Politics, The Republicans

Mike Huckabee is hanging in there. He should. The primaries aren’t over and the fact that so many candidates dropped out of the race for the GOP nomination before many Americans had a chance to vote is not right on a level that smacks of limiting choice and back room dealing. But what is Huckabee’s strategy? He’s down by so many delegates that he would need a miracle to deny McCain his coronation.

In an interview with 1200 WOAI news during his swing through Texas, longshot Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee outlined a strategy which has him not winning the GOP nomination outright, but pushing the nomination to the September Republican National Convention, which he says will turn to him as the most ‘conservative alternative.’The ‘brokered convention’ plan is in stark contrast to Huckabee’s previous sunny predictions of a sweep to victory in the primaries and caucuses on the shoulders of adoring family values conservatives.

Huckabee said his ‘brokered convention’ strategy is predicated on a victory in Texas, the country’s largest Republican state.

“We think Texas is an important state,” Huckabee told me. “We know how important it is to win Texas.”

Huckabee says with an upset win in Texas, and a win in the Ohio Republican primary the same day, Huckabee could deny front runner John McCain the nomination in the primaries.

“If we win Texas, I think it changes the dynamics of this race. It could well go all the way to the convention. If the convention delegates pick the president, chances are they would pick the most conservative. I would be the one they would end up picking, if that’s the criteria.”

Uh, Mike. You’re not more conservative than John McCain. And considering what I have said time and again about McCain being, at best, a moderate that isn’t saying much.

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