Texas Gov. Perry Asks Huckabee to Drop Out

(CBS)
COLLEGE PARK, MD. -- Gov. Rick Perry. R-Texas, who has endorsed John McCain, called Mike Huckabee on Friday asking him to drop out of the race, according to a senior Huckabee campaign aide. Huckabee declined Perry's request.
Huckabee had asked for Perry's support earlier in the election cycle and Perry had said he would support Huckabee if he thought he could win but decided to support Rudy Giuliani instead. When Giuliani dropped out last month, Perry switched his allegiance to McCain.
Earlier today in Washington, D.C. after delivering a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference, Huckabee told reporters that staying in the race is good for the Republican Party.
"I'd like to think the Republican Party is mature enough, big enough, and smart enough that it actually knows competition brings excellence. And the lack of competiton brings mediocrity," Huckabee said.
"You know the old proverb is as iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. The fact is no boxer is ever prepared to go into the ring if he's never sparred."
"If we're really serious about taking it all the way to November, we better have a candidate who's truly battle-tested. So this nonsense about how I should step aside and have a cakewalk all the way to the election, that's crazy. Unless they were all to step aside and let me have a cakewalk, then that would be a fine thing. But otherwise, I can see no value in that at all."
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He is not grounded in convictions of his own. He just supports whoever is being pushed by the talking airheads on TV.
Huckabee is the only republican who can hold the red states together if McCain should win he will need Huckabee as his VP to win in November.
Wow.
A gay governer determining the fate of the nation.
Skrew voting, let him decide who shall run and who shall not.
Everyone questioned why Romney%u2019s boys didn''t join the armed services. We all know why the Hickablobs will be deemed 4-F in any draft. Obesity has its privileges, I suppose.
On another note, I can%u2019t wait for when he becomes President and the first family has the Ambassador from Ethiopia over for dinner. That will be an awkward moment.
He was a prisoner of war in one of the most brutal of prison camps. I am sorry for that, but he must have psychological scars. The word "enemy" is probably a trigger point.
No wonder he loves the Bush strategy and thinks we could be in Iraq for 100 years...he envisions a resolution? No.
Accordingly, I can therefore readily draw the conclusion that Tonic1661 is a combat veteran and has experienced such trauma and is readily conversant with the symptoms. Or, failing that, Tonic1661 is a licensed psychiatrist or psychologist and therefore professionally capable of drawing such a conclusion.
Of course, there is a third possibility. Tonic1661 is a self-professed "conservative" who is beginning to have quasi-lucid contact with reality and is more than a little fearful of what he/she/it is seeing and hearing. There is certainly hope for Tonic1661 and as a combat veteran of RVN (1967-1968), I will prescribe 15 months of rest and recreation in Fallujah with ten days leave in the Triangle of Death.
Otherwise, Tonic1661 oughta just slither back down to the river bank and crawl back under the rock he/she/it calls home.
please
I believe you tonic1661. No, really.
So, Huckabee, you MUST now bow to the commanders of your party and genuflect to the new ruler to be, John McCain!!!
Stay in this race and please don''t drop out. You are the true republican''s only hope now. If you drop out we are stuck with Hillary, Obama, and Hillary''s best friend John. We need you and you have a huge advantage over John McCain. You are a "True Republican with true Republican values." You WILL win this race. When it comes right down to it, republicans''s will choose you.
Hang in there for us.
I choose the conservative path -- BUT, I am not a "suicide voter" -- If Huckabee does not succeed, I will stand behind our standard bearer... or stay home. If McCain does get the nomination, then he will have choices to make if he wants to hear the echoes of conservatives united in their principles.
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