Gov. Mike Huckabee is downright tired of people asking him when he’s going to drop out of the race for president, particularly as speculation mounts that he’s in it just to raise his profile in hopes of a vice presidential nod. The day after The New York Giants stunned the world and the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLII, Huckabee reminded the press of the dangers of calling a contest before it’s over.
“They were also talking about how the Patriots had the Super Bowl wrapped up and there wasn’t any point in people watching,” Huckabee said Monday at a campaign stop in Texarkana, Arkansas, the latest of several he’s held recently in airplane hangars at small airports throughout the South. “With only eight percent of the delegates in, it’s way too early for that.”
A full month after rushing out of the gates by winning the Iowa Caucus, Huckabee’s campaign is stuck in neutral. It’s not that he’s going backwards so much as John McCain is surging ahead and Mitt Romney has continued to move forward.
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