Former governor of Arkansas and proclaimed underdog in the US Republican nomination race, Mike Huckabee would be addressing a crowd of about 400 hundred students in the area of Green Bay. “People ask me, ‘Are you doing this for your future and your career?’” Huckabee addressed.
Huckabee would follow up his own question with an answer. “Look, I may be killing my political career,” Huckabee had answered. He then added: “But I know this, if we don’t start thinking about solving America’s problems, we’re killing all your careers that are standing here today as students, and that’s unacceptable.”
This could possibly show some foreshadowing. In front of 400 college students, Huckabee had admitted that he could be possibly killing his political career. But in front of the crowd, it may look as if Huckabee is looking at something much bigger and more important than his own political career.
“The national media has sort of said, well, the math doesn’t work for you. Well let me give them some Huck-a-math here, okay?” he said to the crowd. In a previous event, Huckabee said that he does not know math but he does know miracles. Some could say that it was a miracle that Huckabee took states from Romney during Super Tuesday and taking Kansas away from McCain.
Huckabee would say: “We need to be adding to our borders for security… We need to subtract the idea of government spending…we need to be multiplying answers to the real problems we face in this country…and then we need to do some dividing. We need to divide up the nonsense in Washington and separate the children from the adults…Somebody’s got to be willing to divide the divisiveness in Washington.”
One person had asked a rare question to Mike Huckabee. This was on the aspect of improving the United States education system. Huckabee had answered by talking about the need for music and the arts.
Huckabee was the first GOP candidate so far to address music and the arts in the US education system. Education has been a major platform for US Democratic hopefuls and frontrunners Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Clinton had addressed how music and arts programs have been cut in place of more testing.
Huckabee answered with: “Take a five-year-old kid, and you don’t have to beg him to draw a picture. Put a crayon and a piece of paper in his hand, what does he do – he draws a picture. Same kid, when he’s fifteen, give him a piece of paper and a crayon, and he says, ‘I’m not good at this.’ Five-year-old kid – leave him alone, and he’ll sing his lungs out. When he’s fifteen, you can’t coax him into singing. What happened? Our education system beat the ever living creativity out of him between the time he was five and fifteen. And it’s virtually a criminal act we have not stimulated the creativity that is natural to every human being and instead we have stifled it. That has got to stop or we’ll never be competitive in this world. We need a music and arts education for every student.”
After assessing both Obama and Clinton as opponents in the general election, Huckabee also took the time to talk about how he could be killing his political career.
Huckabee explained by saying: “Well, what I mean by that – I was just saying there are a lot of people who say that you know I am staying and creating problems for the party and there are obviously more people in the party who are unhappy I am staying, now keep in mind, they are all supporting John McCain. But this sense that it’s just his turn, let’s just all step aside – I find that insulting as a Republican and as a candidate.”
He made it clear that it was not about him.
“I think I am helping the country’s future, I think I’m helping the party’s future,” Huckabee said in regards of staying in the race and his political career.
This could be received as a strategy to energize Huckabee supporters. In a sense, what Huckabee had said in the crowd does give the nostalgia of a popular Japanese anime series and live-action TV show known as “Great Teacher Onizuka.”
Onizuka had almost killed his teaching career numerous times due to his actions. But many learned that he had put everything and everybody else before himself. It is unknown if Huckabee is putting the interests of the GOP in front of himself or if he is making that speech as a means to generate supporters for a possible comeback.
Statistically speaking, strategists say that Huckabee does not have a chance of defeating McCain for the win. However, Huckabee said that it is not over until McCain has enough delegates to grab the victory. So far, Huckabee’s refusal to drop out has forced McCain to focus on the primaries rather than the general election.
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