[RobbyS]

Oh, I’ll vote for McCain just as I, against Lincoln, would choose my mother-in-law over the bear, and the RIGHT VEEP is necessary. I just fear it would have to be a brilliant choice who would be accepted immediately by the whole party as the heir apparent. The question is: IS there such a candidate? If it is Obama, the candidate will have to be someone able to deflate Obamaism. Obama is a modern version of William Jennings Bryan. It would be great if someone like TR could be found who could follow Obama round from place to place and puncture all those balloons Obama blows up.

[Seaplaner]

"Is there such a [VEEP] candidate?" Actually, this might make a good vanity post question.

Right now, I'd have to recommend John Boehner, but I'm sure there are many good potential VEEPS with genuinely conservative bona fides.