McCain should chose Evan Bayh as running mate.

I can't help but think it's interesting to speculate about. Oh, it won't happen. I think that Bayh would sorta be "above it" – there's little in it for him (except a darn good chance to be president – provided his darn bad chance to get so elected miraculously happened).

But from McCain's perspective:

He doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of getting elected, so he has nothing to lose by trying to out "history" the history makers on the other side. Whatch gonna do when either one of the Dems makes voting so damn fun? Americans are fairly wetting themselves at the prospect of voting for a history maker.   …and either Democrat gives the American populace – that same American populace that thinks that American Idol is the highest form of entertainment (especially the early auditions wherein the mentally ill are laughed at), and who loves to go to death sites – Lennon, Princess Di, and now Ledger – and lay down wreaths as a means of meaningfully participating in "history" -- that chance.

In other words – making history is WAY more important to the American people than is policy. McCain should note this (if he hasn't already) and get on board by being the first major party candidate to pick a running mate from the other party. Make some history of his own.

McCain's big claim to fame is his "bipartisanship". It has put him on the political map. It doesn't really matter what the bipartisanship leads to – it's about feeling good. The perception of getting along. He has bet his presidential run on the possibility that the Republican base has nowhere else to go to express their political will. They (he thinks) will vote Republican no matter what. He believes, as much as any 3-year-old believes in Santa, that his hope for getting elected in the open election is to entice otherwise Democrat and Independent (read: Democrats who don't like "labels") to vote for him because Americans dislike "partisanship" – and both Obama, and certainly Clinton are quite partisan.

He's wrong, of course. Americans (at least those voicing their discontent with "partisanship") are NOT tired of partisanship. What they don't want is REPUBLICAN partisanship. McCain has been made SO popular by the pundits with his anti-Republican bi-partisanship that he is blind to this distinction. So I could see him looking around for the PERFECT, ULTIMATE bi-partisan move – a Democrat running mate. I am pretty sure that if Leiberman weren't both too old and a proven bad choice from the 2000 election, he would be McCain's choice. I'm kidding about Bayh. I'm not kidding about Leiberman.

At least it is not a boring election cycle. McCain is Gerald Ford with a hand grenade.