This is funny.

MikeHuckabee.com, the official website of Mike Huckabee for President, is showing a countdown to April 15th when it will launch something big.

One MMM reader notes:

The countdown posted at www.mikehuckabee.com is being touted on blogs, and articles as the announcement date that JohnMcCain's name will scroll to the top of the site, with Mike's underneath it. The star is the same as the one used on McCain's site, and the gold/blue is similar to McCain's site, as well.

The ONLY thing that makes sense about it is that McCain will ignore his advisors, stick with his "gut" and select the guy he promised the spot to after Iowa. It's the kind of thing I could see McCain doing.

Labels: John McCain, mike huckabee, Vice-President

Or, is this the ultimate head fake and thus the "the ticket" comes off like this:

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Reuturs is reporting that McCain has officially begun the process of seraching for a running mate. He declined to comment on Romney as a running mate:

Speaking to reporters on his campaign plane, the expected Republican nominee said he had seen news reports that a defeated rival, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, had expressed interest in the job, but he offered no comment one way or the other on whether Romney would be a candidate.

Any thoughts?

Labels: John McCain, Vice-President

It’s all the rage these days to speculate as to who the VP will be. All sorts of people write about what the criteria are for VP. Many of you Romney supporters are going back and forth (believe me, we get the emails) about whether you want Mitt as a VP pick. Some are for it, most are against it. But, I think that most people are ignoring the fact that the VP has very little impact on the president.

Just think about this: when was the last time the VP spearheaded any major initiative or policy while Vice-President? Dick Cheney has been a little bit of an exception with his role in foreign policy, but even still, his role in making policy seems minimal. Even granting the Cheney exception, the role of the VP is minimal after the election is over. Really, the true role of the VP is to get the President elected. Thus, a President should pick a VP based on who will get him the most votes.

So what does this have to do with Romney? Certainly Romney has proven that he can move votes. However, for those hoping (as I have seen on some blogs) that McCain will pick Romney and let Romney run the domestic policy, don’t get your hopes up. Not that it is impossible that McCain would pick Romney, but don’t start to aggrandize what that means by starting to talk about policy influence of the running mate. That role will be negligible.

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