Now I personally have stated that I am voting for McCain regardless of the VP, and whether he picks Huckabee, Romney, or the tooth fairy, it doesn’t matter to me. I am looking at 2008 and the potential damage that can be caused by such an un-vetted, inexperienced Marxist junior senator such as B. Hussein Obama. With that said, I thought this was a timely and somewhat well written argument for a Huckabee VP pick. I do not believe that Mike will be the VP pick, and I do not want to start the rantings and ravings of highly em-passioned supporters of either candidate. I rather want to get this word “out there” from an economist that I feel “Get’s it”.

Is Huckabee the economic wiz that will save the free-market capitalistic economy that we know and love? No. Is he the worst possible choice in this arena? I know some will say yes, but I disagree. It doesn’t matter how hard CfG or others attack Mike on economic issues, the fact remains that he is an economic Conservative. He governed conservatively in a highly democratic state. Dick Morris made some good arguments over here. And the source for the real cause for the Club for Growth attack can be found here.

Yesterday we heard about an independent Evangelical group in Michigan striving to be heard by the Republican Party, and then another group in Ohio had their voice marginalized, and I’m sure that there are others in the rest of the key swing states that want to be heard. These are voices that need to be listened to.

As for the original article, here are some excerpts:

McCain needs help if he is going to win. Huckabee is in many respects an ideal complement for the senator from Arizona - he is 52 to McCain’s 71; Huckabee, a Baptist minister, is solid with the evangelicals, who remain suspicious of McCain; Huckabee is a genial, folksy, guitar-playing personality who connects on the campaign trail, compared with McCain’s grating and inept performances (not to mention Romney’s power-point drone).

No I know some people LIVE for those PowerPoint’s - The cool fade effects, and the neat spinning transitions are pretty sweet, but they do not work for most of the non-white collar workers.

During his primary campaign, Huckabee was able to show the same sympathy for the plight of low-income workers as Democratic candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. And Huckabee — who at one point interrupted his campaign to deliver a paid speech outside the country because he needs to earn a living — was much more convincing than the multi-multimillionaire Romney or the married-to-an-heiress McCain. His whimsical ad about preferring to vote for someone you can work alongside rather than the boss said it all.

I’m sure that Metro will point to this as the EXACT reason to not vote for Mike, and God love him, he is entitled to that opinion, the fact is, it resonated well with the electorate on both side of the aisle.

But free-market policies may not be what voters in a distressed economy want to hear. In an election when many low-income white voters may be reluctant to vote for an African American with no track record, Huckabee offers a lifeline of economic support with solid social conservative credentials. What should McCain choose: 40,000 Club of Growth members or 80 million-some evangelicals? Hmmm.

That pretty much says it all. I know that all 80MM Evangelicals will not vote for Mike solely because he is on the ticket, but I know that most of them would echo these sentiments:

“It’s important that people sing from their hearts and don’t merely lip-sync the lyrics to our songs,” he said. “I think it’s important that the language of Zion is a mother tongue and not a recently acquired second language.”

Thanks for your time today, and if you do want to make a difference, and you want to get involved regardless of the VP pick, please join me over here at Stop Barack and get signed up for updates as we have work to do in the coming election to educate the voters just how bad Barack is and your help is needed.

h/t Debra Mantey