He duly qualifies it by calling it a “terrible thought” and dismissing Huck as “unserious” and ignorant about economics, but when the editor of National Review is willing to utter such heresies aloud you know there’s a little VP mo a-buildin’! We’ve been over the various merits and demerits of Huck on the ticket before so let’s try a different angle: Are there any other candidates who’d deliver more right off the bat than he would? It’s easy to imagine America warming up to Palin or Jindal over the course of the campaign, but it’s also easy to imagine a collective shrug. Maybe Palin siphons off some of Hillary’s girl power; maybe she doesn’t. Ultimately we simply don’t know how much they’d deliver. With Huck you know on day one you’re getting goodwill among evangelicals, a dynamite media presence, and the sort of (shiver) populist economic rhetoric Lowry thinks could help with gas at $4.50 a gallon. How badly do you want to win?