Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, John McCain, and Sarah Palin speak at a rally in O'Fallon, Missouri to stir up support for the McCain/Palin ticket.
Bio
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee is a Republican politician, musician, political commentator and host for the Fox News Channel and ABC Radio who served as Governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007. Huckabee finished second in the 2008 United States Republican presidential primaries.
Huckabee is the author of several books, an ordained Southern Baptist minister and a public speaker.
Senator John S. McCain III
John Sidney McCain III is the senior United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republican nominee for president in the 2008 United States election.
Governor Sarah Louise Heath Palin
Sarah Louise Heath Palin is the current governor of Alaska, and is the presumptive Republican vice presidential nominee in the 2008 United States presidential election.
Palin served two terms on the Wasilla, Alaska, city council from 1992 to 1996, then won two terms as mayor of Wasilla from 1996 to 2002. After an unsuccessful campaign for lieutenant governor of Alaska in 2002, she chaired the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission from 2003 to 2004 while also serving as Ethics Supervisor of the commission.
On December 2006, Palin was sworn in as the governor of Alaska, becoming the first woman and youngest person to hold the office. She defeated incumbent Republican governor Frank Murkowski in the Republican primary and former Democratic governor Tony Knowles in the general election.
On August 29, 2008, Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain announced that he had chosen Palin as his running mate. The decision generated much publicity for the Republican campaign as pundits from both major parties publicly discussed their views on the choice. She is expected to be formally nominated at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota. Palin would be the second woman to run for vice president on a major-party ticket and the first Republican woman to do so.
Mitt Romney
Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947, usually known as Mitt), was the 70th Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Elected in 2002, Romney served one term and did not seek re-election in 2006; his term ended January 4, 2007. Romney has started his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, having formally announced his candidacy on February 13, 2007. He made his announcement at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.
Romney is a former CEO of Bain and Company, a management consulting firm, and the co-founder of Bain Capital, a private equity investment firm. Prior to Bain, he worked for The Boston Consulting Group. Romney is credited with reviving the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah from near bankruptcy as the Salt Lake Olympic Committee's CEO and organizer after scandal led to financial disarray.