by Jason George
LEXINGTON, S.C. – Gov. Mike Huckabee took to the stump 700 miles from the Michigan state line last night and attended a rally in Republican-heavy Lexington County, an affluent bedroom community to Columbia, the capital.
“I congratulate Mitt Romney,” he said in his remarks, speaking about Michigan only about 90 seconds.
Huckabee focused the rest of his time at the microphone on the South Carolina primary this Saturday, when he predicts that he, the “first-in-the-South candidate,” will win the first-in-the-South contest.
He also predicted victory in Florida.
“People have been asking who is this Huckabee fellow; where is he coming from?”
“I tell you where I’m coming from: I’m coming from you.”
“On to victory, Saturday!”
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While Huckabee stayed mostly on the issues of the economy and his faith, the two surrogates who took the stage before the governor went after Sen. John McCain, although they did not mention him by name.
“They’ve had their turn to fix the economy,” said Mike Campbell, son of former S.C. Gov. Carroll A. Campbell, Jr.
“They’ve had their turn to do all these different things for the country.”
“We need new leadership.”
Up next was David Beasley, a one-term former governor here, who was an early supporter of Huckabee’s.
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“I don’t want the same old crowd,” he told the 300 or so people crammed into the barbeque restaurant where the rally was held.
“They’ve had 25 and 15 and 10 years to change Washington and they’ve changed. Washington changed them,” he said, ironically stealing a McCain line to attack the senator.
“That’s what this election is about; it’s about change. It’s about Washington politicians yielding to the American people.”
“Mike Huckabee is about change.”