An Associated Press story over on Newsweek

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Sunday he’d like to be John McCain’s running mate.

“There’s no one I would rather be on a ticket with than John McCain,” said Huckabee, who was a stronger than expected challenger against McCain for the Republican presidential nomination. “All during the campaign when I was his rival, not a running mate, there was no one who was more complimentary of him publicly and privately. … I still wanted to win, but if I couldn’t, John McCain was always the guy I would have supported and have now supported.

Would Huck be the right choice for Senator McCain’s running mate? Huckabee is considered to be a lot more conservative than McCain and ran his campaign for a time on the fact that he was the “true conservative” of the group of candidates.

I can’t be sure but I believe that Huckabee as the running mate won’t make a difference in the long run. The people who were going to vote for Huckabee were in no way going to vote for the Democrats, and with McCain as the presumptive nominee, I think that’s how the majority of the party and those leaning to the right will go, despite who McCain’s running mate is.