The U.S. economy can rebound from recent hardships because Americans have a way of reinventing themselves, Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee says.

Huckabee, who has been mentioned as a possible contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, came to Spartanburg Monday night to give the keynote address at the GOP’s county convention.

In his address, Huckabee hit on several domestic hot-button issues, including an amendment to ban gay marriage that South Carolina voters will consider this November.

Encouraging voters to support the amendment, Huckabee said ballot questions like this are a major reason elections are still important in America, despite their cost and time.

Huckabee, along with other possible GOP presidential candidates, are spending a lot of time in South Carolina, which intends to hold the first presidential primary in the South in 2008.