Astute Suggestion

A politically-informed voter in Western PA recently made a very astute observation regarding McCain's Veep selection.

He said that the housing comment of McCain's and the selection of Biden makes Huckabee a really attractive running-mate right now, "because he is more common." In other words, don't pick Romney, because he won't help you where he's supposed to, viz. economic knowledge, because of his privileged backstory. Huckabee on the other hand has the common touch, and can't be accused of elitism like Romney. Plus you get the contrast with Biden, who's been in the Senate forever. McCain can blunt the out-of-touch elitism charge and recapture more of a "change" mantra than with Romney. Of course, I'm only comparing Huckabee to Romney at this point, and perhaps McCain has already settled on Palin who might do all of these things better. But Huckabee is a tested presidential candidate and Palin is not.

Would Biden destroy Huckabee on foreign policy in the veep debate? Probably. But he'd destroy anyone. And that's only the conventional wisdom anyway. I thought Kerry destroyed Bush in the 04 debates, but the country did not agree with me.