Huckabee Was Never Even Considered for McCain's VP

Mike Huckabee put out a letter today on his website that said he was never even considered to be McCain's VP. The McCain campaign never even contacted him in any way about it. In his letter, Huckabee says:

I have never been contacted by the McCain campaign at any point about the VP slot. I have never been asked for any information, background, etc.,

To me, the fact that McCain didn't even consider Huckabee as a worthy running mate tells us that McCain is not very bright. Huckabee's millions of supporters will not take this complete snub lightly -- I know I won't.

McCain, you can count me out. I would rather wait for Huckabee in 2012!

Rich Lowry: Huckabee for VP? Worth a "Last Minute" Look

Rich Lowry of the National Review makes some astute points regarding Huckabee's "pros" as it relates to McCain's "woes" and why he would actually make an ideal vice president nominee for McCain.

Here is what Lowry wrote:

But wouldn't Huckabee make a lot of sense given the things we've learned the last two weeks? 1) McCain might have a "wealth problem," and certainly Democrats are going to try to hit his wealth for all its worth in their play for working-class voters; Huckabee doesn't have a problem on this front, and has lots of working-class cred. 2) The pro-choice trial balloon hasn't been well received, and it's clear that a pro-choice nominee would create a major disruption; Huckabee is pro-life. 3) Obama picked Biden who is going to a vivid presence (for better or worse) on the stump and could be formidable in debate; Huckabee is a great campaigner and might be just the guy to puncture Biden in a debate. 4) (This is a less important point.) The McCain folks have made a huge deal about differences between Obama and Biden during the primaries; McCain and Huckabee didn't have much in the way of differences and went out of their way to praise each other. The other upsides are the press likes Huckabee (for now), he's a different kind of Republican, and his selection would be such a shock, it might even be considered bold.

I completely agree that Huckabee compliments McCain very well in so many areas. But I think that there are people who REALLY REALLY HATE Huckabee making their voices heard loud enough that McCain and his campaign are not allowing this great candidate to be considered.

But McCain needs to be bold and choose someone interesting and who compliments him well. Huckabee is the best choice for many reasons, many of which were listed above.

So yes, as Lowry wrote at the end of his article, "Huckabee might be worth a last-minute second look." I completely agree!

Obama Picks Biden for his VP Pick - Who Will McCain Choose?

Senator Barack Obama has decided to name Senator Joseph Biden as his choice for Vice President. This is probably the best choice Obama could have made, aside from Senator Hillary Clinton. Joe Biden offers a wealth of both perceived and actual experience on foreign policy, as well as domestic issues. He has far more experience than Obama in political service. So much so, that it's actually funny to see the ticket as Obama/Biden rather than Biden/Obama. The latter seems to be much more logical.

I don't know that Biden can really make up for Obama's lack of experience. In fact, I think Biden only increases the awareness of it. Moreover, Biden also respresents the style of old-school politics that Obama was claiming to be "above." I believe that Biden was the correct choice for Obama politically, but I think it's the best of a bad situation.

Now the focus is on who Senator John McCain will choose for his Vice Presidential candidate. In my opinion, McCain needs to pick someone who is a strong social conservative, as well as someone who is fresh and charismatic.

My opinion that Governor Mike Huckabee would be the absolute perfect choice, considering his humor, intellect, charm and charisma. However, McCain doesn't want to go in that direction, so I think his choice is down to two people: Tim Pawlenty and Mitt Romney. If McCain picks Pawlenty, then you can expect a pretty bland reception from people. Quite frankly, he is another Sam Brownback. No spark and no passion shows through his personality.

Mitt Romney is not one of my favorite politicians by far. Not because of his Mormonism, but because of his nasty style of politics, even to his fellow Republicans. He ripped both McCain and Huckabee with very unfair attacks in the Republican Primaries. However, I think his debating skills are pretty good and he is pretty sharp and on his toes. He's also a very "rich" looking guy, sort of like John Kerry is. He just screams "millionaire" when you look at him, and I don't think that will help McCain's chances at all.

If McCain is going to choose one of these two guys, I would go with Romney even though he wouldn't be very helpful (only slightly more helpful than Pawlenty). He's at least interesting to listen to.

Hopefully McCain will surprise us all and pick someone with great people skills, along with charm, charisma, intellect, humility, etc.

John McCain and Barack Obama Visit Rick Warren

John McCain and Barack Obama recently visited the Saddleback Church, of which Rick Warren is the pastor of. Both candidates were asked the same questions, so the forum was very unbiased.

Now, I know John McCain is a huge panderer. He has a huge list of flip-flops on almost every issue in the book. He has even been inconsistent on his support for certain evangelicals and their leadership, calling them "agents of intolerance." Of course, McCain has since reversed that comment, because guess what? He now NEEDS every vote from the very type of people he called agents of intolerance.

I am not so sure about the sincerity of someone like McCain. He seems to be a textbook politician, flipping and flopping his way through every single issue where he needs to in order to get support.

With that being said, I think McCain did pretty well at the civil forum hosted by Pastor Warren. But look at where he was at... a pandering McCain will ALWAYS choose the applause line depending on the forum he is in. If he was in a more liberal type of venue, I am certain his answers would not have been as direct, and maybe even skewed a little more toward that particular audience's point-of-view.

Listen to John McCain in the video below (from year 2000) as he talks about the "intolerance and wrongheadedness" of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. He mentions them by name, but do you realize the underlying message from him there is that strong, unwaivering Christians are roadblocks and intolerant bigots who are in the way of the Republican party.



Now McCain wants our support and has since started to heavily pander to the Christian right. Is this a man that we can trust to really see and represent our point of view? I am not so sure he has earned that kind of trust.

A New MikeHuckabee.com! Huckabee Launches new Web Site

Mike Huckabee has launched a slick new site over at MikeHuckabee.com. Go check it out!

Huckabee Ignored? Huge Mistake!

I have noticed that ever since Huckabee withdrew from the Presidential race, the media was happy to never speak of him again, unless they absolutely HAD to.

Vice President? The Huck haters would never have it. The evangelicals have been slapped in the face this year. You and me have been left in the dust, and John McCain doesn't even care. He wants your vote, but he doesn't want you to have a voice for the issues that you care about.

McCain hasn't announced his running mate yet, but there's ZERO talk about Huckabee, and Huck has even stated that there's been no interest shown in him for VP. That tells me that McCain is ignoring the huge evangelical base that was so passionate about Huckabee's candidacy.

I am so disgusted with McCain and his history of apathy and irritation with evangelicals. I don't see myself voting for him in November... I just can't pull the trigger for someone like that. With choices like Barack Obama and John McCain, someone like Bob Barr doesn't sound so bad.

Read this. It's what I feel on a much larger scale. Huckabee never got the respect he deserves from the pundits and media - but he won the hearts of millions of Americans across the country without them!