US News and World Report has information that McCain is likely to pick Huckabee for the vice presidency. Here are the three reasons McCain should pick Huckabee, according to the article:
1) He is a great campaigner and communicator who could both shore up support in the South among social conservatives (Huckabee is a former Baptist minister) and appeal to working-class voters in the critical “Big 10″ states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Ohio.
2) As any pollster knows, voters search for candidates who “care about people like me,” and Huckabee would probably score a lot higher on that quality than millionaire investor Mitt Romney. Plus, given all the turmoil on Wall Street, 2008 would seem to be a bad year to pick a former investment banker for veep.
3) Economic conservatives and supply-siders may balk, but the threat of four years of Obamanomics and higher investment, income, and corporate taxes might be enough to keep them on board.
All three reasons are the reasons I refuse to vote for any sort of McCain or Huckabee ticket.
Filed under: Election 2008, John McCain, Politics, Republicans
Lance, you’re not the only one. I’d have to give up then, as would a bunch of others. However, I really don’t think this is going to happen; McCain has got to be smarter than this.
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