Pundit Looniness From "Across The Pond"

Tim Hames of the Times of London proposes the idea here that Gen. David Petraeus should be named as the vice-presidential candidate for Repug presidential all-but-nominee John McCain, an idea also endorsed by Bill Kristol of the New York Times here back when he imagined Fred Thompson at the top of the ticket (Steve Clemons of The Note, though, anticipates Petraeus at the head of the Repug ticket in 2012 here).

This of course would be a total “diss” to the “values voters” who flock to the GOP in droves, for whom Mike Huckabee is plainly their man. And as at least one commenter noted, it assumes that the Mahdi Army will continue its ceasefire indefinitely in Iraq, thus providing some measure of illusory “success” concerning “the surge” (and speaking of which, it turns out here that Defense Secretary Robert Gates is delaying the “draw down” of troops here).

And as long as we’re talking about “St. McCain” here, I should link to this Daily Kos post from Kagro X with this new video – I’ll check it out and try to embed it later.

Update 2/12/08: And I meant to note earlier that things aren't going as swimmingly in Afghanistan as Hames would have us believe either (here).