Mike Huckabee's Enthusiasm Admired in the face of John McCain's Triumphs

BROOKFIELD, Wisconsin, February 19 - In my mind if Barack Obama wins the bid for the Democratic party to run for president of the United States in 2008, John McCain will have a very good chance of winning. To me, it is also clear that McCain has already beat Mike Huckabee hands down, and will be representing the Republicans of this country; however I do admire Huckabee's enthusiasm and unwillingness to give up the fight.

While on a trip to Wisconsin with some of my fellow College Democrats, we met up with the group that supports the opposition on Monday evening, the College Republicans of The University of Wisconsin. They mentioned to us that they would be attending the Sheraton Milwaukee Brookfield Hotel the next morning to hear Arizona's Senator, John McCain, give a speech, and that we were invited to go if we wanted. They told us that if we had not heard John McCain speak before, that he would most likely surprise us. They also mentioned some facts about him and what he supports, and I was very intrigued by that, and I decided to accept their invitation.

The next morning, on February 19th, I was very nervous. I am not a Republican, by far. The only two things I support, that they do too, are my beliefs on abortions and gay marriages; in those two things I am very conservative. Because of this, I did not know what to expect upon our early arrival to the event.

I knew that this would be a campaign rally, and let me tell you, the last thing I expected was for people to be up and about at the even around 9:30 when we arrived. Everyone was so cheerful, optimistic about what McCain would be delivering that day, and they all seemed to want to recruit as many voters as possible.
During McCain's speech I was very pleased. I couldn't believe some of the things he was saying, and I also could not, no matter how much I tried, hate the man who was speaking at the podium. John McCain is a very poised man. He is also very educated and has great plans for our country, but especially for our military. He happened to mention that one of his sons just returned from Iraq, and that he was very interested in finishing what we had started there, and coming out with a victory, as opposed to just leaving things the way they are now.

After the campaign rally had finished, Republican hopeful, John McCain took the time to meet up with some of his fans who gathered around him to let him know how much they liked what he said, and that they would surely be voting for him, or that they had already done so. He shook many of the hands of some of the people I was with, and even took pictures with them, and autographed various items they were carrying with them. I have a couple of College Republican friends now, from the University of Wisconsin, who will be having a debate with myself and some of my co-members of the College Democrats who went to this event, about the issues we are concerned about. I am still not a Republican, but now I am convinced that if McCain wins, it will not be a bad thing for the United States citizens at all.