[Wallace T.]

If McCain or his advisers are smart, they will use Richard Nixon's 1972 playbook and not Karl Rove's early 2000s one to win the general election. In 1972, Nixon made significant breakthroughs with certain demographics similar to those where Hillary is strong - rural and blue collar whites in the inland Northeast, the Great Lakes, the Ohio Valley, and Appalachia. Nixon also picked up more Jewish votes than any other GOP Presidential candidate since Warren Harding. (His fierce anti-Semitism was not publicly known at the time.)

However, McCain will need a Spiro Agnew to throw some rhetorical red meat to conservatives. Perhaps Mike Huckabee will fill the bill.

[Vigilanteman]

Huckabee?

You mean open borders Huckabee? Global warming Huckabee? The Huckabee who talks to God and substutites his feelings for the rule of law? The Huckabee who p*sses on Mormons and denegrates Catholics as second class Christians?

All Obama has to do is nominate a faux Mormon like Harry Reid or a so-called pro-life Catholic like Bob Casey Jr. and he can beat McCain like a drum with Hucksterbee on the ticket.