Mike Huckabee Concession Speech

8:56: Clift Hearst introduces Mike Huckabee.

8:57: The 2001 theme starts playing. I kid you not. This is so gloriously cheesy.

8:58: Elvis's C.C. Rider is playing. These Republicans sure love the King.

8:59: Crowd chants, "We like Mike!"

9:00: Huckabee has the crowd laughing with a few jokes. The man can work a crowd.

9:01: Huckabee thanks his New Hampshire co-chairs. Huckabee mentions it is Elvis's birthday.

9:02: Huchabee says he can take America up and not down. Always good to work in a reference to gravity.

9:04: Huckabee talks about New Hampshire hospitality. "We're part of you and you're part of us."

9:05 Huckabee says he is gonna secure the nominee. He promises to pronounce "chowder" the New Hampshire way.

Huckabee is hitting South Carolina, Michigan and Florida in the next 3 days.

9:06 Cue Elvis.