Huck and Mitt, Together Again

Elizabeth Holmes reports from O’Fallon, Mo. on the presidential race. Here’s something you don’t see every day: Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney climbing off the Straight Talk Express. The former rivals of John McCain joined the Republican presidential candidate and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin , on the campaign bus that pulled into a rally here Sunday afternoon. Despite being passed over for the place on the GOP ticket, both Romney and Huckabee played the part of good foot soldiers as McCain continued his weekend of introducing Palin to the rest of the country. Huckabee kicked off the festivities at the T.R. Hughes Ballpark, where a throngs of thousands waited hours in anticipation. The former Arkansas governor and one-time Evangelical pastor did what he does best, expressing his support for the Americans in the path of hurricane Gustav. “It is at a time like this that I think all of us are reminded how grateful we are to be in a nation like ours,” he ... (link)