It's a bad call. If he had made his announcement before Hillary's speech on Tuesday, things would have gone much better. I would have said it was a good call. But now, it sealed the deal on him; he's done. If he had secured a swing state (as my friend suggested), it would have been a great move. If he had went with Romney, he would have wiped the floor on Obama's economy plan, gotten someone who is a stronger pick overall with hardcore Republicans, and played the importance of region in elections. Arizona/Massachusetts? Hell, yeah. Okay, so maybe Romney is a Mormon, and most Christians think it's a cult, but he could've pulled off a Kennedy speech the way Obama did for black people not too long ago. Appeal to the common denominator; "what makes us Christians isn't multiple wives, it's all about Jesus." Something like that. An appeal to Jesus is an automatic hand-clapper.

For all of the inspiration that Obama could inspire, it would have said little to the ability of what is a virtually guaranteed economic fix. Yes, I am serious. That is the incredible potential and smartness of choosing Romney for VP. I would have voted Republican if that were the case, and McCain found a way to stop being a total suck-up to the hardcore Republicans. If anything, picking Romney would have given him more breathing room to be the "radical of the party."

But now, he's picked someone that who before Tuesday would have played a strong hand on capitalizing the dissenters from Hillary's boat who were going to vote for McCain. Too late. He's closed the door on Obama's inexperience, and showed his party as nothing but a bunch of pork-barrel legislators. Bridge to nowhere? Seriously, think about this for a minute. And they called this a triumph for the failures of Congress? So he played the woman card. Too late. As Yaridovich said, he's clearly out for the votes instead of looking good.