The RPs Debate the 2012 GOP VP: The RP Defends

I agree with Mark Nickolas that Mike Huckabee would be an extraordinary pick by Romney for Vice President.

Indeed, for all the reasons Mark mentions, if Huckabee were in the race today for President, I think he would have run away with the nomination several weeks ago.

And that’s the rub.  Huckabee made a very deliberative decision several months ago not to run for President.

Whether it was family considerations, financial (he seems to be making bank on Fox and the lecture circuit), a political calculation that Obama couldn’t be beat in an improving economy and a divided GOP, or a sudden burst of sanity that led to a realization that being President is an excruciatingly awful job in this hyper-toxic political system, he decided not to run.

With those same calculations, I just can’t imagine he would accept the bottom half of what seems to be a careening ticket.

If Huckabee still has national ambitions, my assumption would be that he would just wait until 2016 (or 2020) to run for President.  Being second banana doesn’t seem to be in his gene pool.