Rudy for VP?

If you're a liberal, I strongly suggest you read David Frum's article in The National Review which is very reassuring. In it, he suggests that McCain should pick Rudy Giuliani as his running mate. This would be wonderful, really. The evangelical wing of the Republican party, the people who helped Bush get elected, are already on the fence about McCain and nobody could further alienate them than Rudy.

I really don't understand why Frum would take this position. His article is awkwardly imbalanced. Dude devotes like everything but the last paragraph to the history of veep selections before mentioning Giuliani, and then doesn't give a convincing argument as to why McCain should select him. His point is that since choosing a vice president doesn't really determine an election's outcome, then Maverick should pick Rudy because people would see it as strengthening the image Republicans hold as strong on national security issues. I think that this would hilariously backfire. The Iraq war has opened the idea - long held by people who are not willfully obtuse to critical thinking - that the Republicans are not the best at issues of National Security. Franklin's quip that those who would sacrifice freedom in the pursuit of security has been mentioned often enough that people are listening to it. To have on the ticket two people who want us to stay in Iraq for an indefinite amount of time would be very good for people who want Obama in the White House.

Rudy Giuliani, in other words, could end up being one of the few vice presidential selections to be utterly disastrous for his running mate. One can only hope....