Are We Willing to Win?

A previous post detailed why the Republicans will likely lose in the fall. For more details, see the post below, in which I lay out the scenario for a Republican defeat. But does it really have to be this way?

Is there a way out for the GOP?

I think there is. There are still three candidates in the race. I think one of them still has the ability to win in the fall.

By many accounts, we are race that is nearly unwinnable. If, in fact, the race is about money, the Democrats will certainly win. They have already surpassed the Republicans in fundraising by tens of millions of dollars. If the race is about change, John McCain has been in Washington forever and Mitt Romney is an Establishment Republican. They don't give us much. The Democrats will be the party of change whether Clinton or Obama win. And they will trump us on that issue.

But there is one Republican candidate that can still pull off a win in the fall.

We need a candidate who can squeeze every drop of value from his money. We need a candidate who can connect with the common man who votes. We need a genuine conservative who has not padded his story with fabrications. We need a governor with executive experience, not a legislator with committee experience. We need a candidate whose principles are solid and whose ideas are out of the box. That candidate is Mike Huckabee.

Right now, the story has him losing. With no money and sinking poll numbers, his candidacy is in its last days. Right now, the narrative will have him bowing to the inevitable McCain campaign soon after Super Tuesday. Right now, Huckabee is almost done.

Right now.

Right now, though, we can still change the story.

Rather than bow to the polls and pundits, we need to make them bow to us. We are the people. We are the voters. We are the only poll that really matters. We are Republicans, and we need to coalesce around the one candidate who can still pull off a win.

We can still prove the pundits wrong one more time. We can still pour money into a campaign that gives tremendous returns for every dollar we give. We don't have to go with the polls; we set the polls, for crying out loud!

The question is not "Will we lose?"

The real question is "Are we going to do what it takes to win?"

The question is not, "Who is leading in the polls?"

The real question is, "Are we willing to let liberal media pundits decide our race for us?"

I know we can.

I hope we will.