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Sure, John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin to be his running mate fully consumed a GOP convention that was supposed to be focused on thumping Barack Obama over the head. And it may have raised questions about McCain's own judgment and seriousness. But, as we have been told ad nauseam since the surprise choice was announced last Friday, Palin has already provided one unquestionable, invaluable assist to the Republican campaign: with one sweep of her perfectly manicured hand, she has supposedly erased McCain's Evangelical problem and united the base that proved so key to George W. Bush...
...Thursday morning, Huckabee spoke briefly with McCain by telephone, congratulating the nominee on his choice of Palin as his running mate. He also said he felt sorry for McCain for having to follow Palin's Wednesday-night speech. "She set the bar pretty high," Huckabee said...
...meantime, he is sticking to a positive script when it comes to tensions within his own party, even his relations to his old opponent McCain, who effectively ended Huckabee's chances by defeating him by fewer than 15,000 votes in South Carolina. "Come to think of it, as I look back, I probably shouldn't have been that nice to the guy," Huckabee joked about McCain at the breakfast meeting...
...Onstage at the Republican Convention Wednesday night, Huckabee expressed nothing but praise for McCain, noting his heroic story as a prisoner of war and Barack Obama's "excellent adventure to Europe." Huckabee wrote the speech himself, going through 17 or 18 drafts that saw its length cut nearly in half. In the end, he cut out sections about health care, terrorism and his experience traveling to Rwanda with Cindy McCain...
...Huckabee has no doubts that the two will work well together on the Republican ticket. "I believe [McCain] will follow Bin Laden whether it's to the caves of Afghanistan or to the gates of hell," he told the Maryland delegation on Thursday. "And after last night I believe Sarah Palin will be right behind him, carrying a couple hockey sticks...