Obama Chooses Biden: Does that change GOP gameplan?

It's Biden, so Now what?

I say BHO may have stumbled into a pick that could help more than harm him in the longrun. I know that goes contrary to popular opinion, but pundits and political junkies think very differently from the rough and tough rural voters that both candidates will be fighting for. They like their candidates to have 'straight talk', this is why Hillary and McCain are popular.

Biden is brash, but real..your average Joe Amtrack passenger, 'one of the guys' and he will totally play that up to attract that blue collar vote. (Already today in his first speech he was striking distinctly populist / stand up comedy tones) And he has significant experience in areas that Obama is weak.

He could be potentially difficult for T-Paw to handle in veep debates, and although Mitt could probably go head to head with him in debates, I think Biden has stronger 'Hillary voter' / blue collar appeal than Mitt does.

I may be biased, but I think Biden just put Huckabee and possibly Portman back into consideration. Both could handle the debate format with Biden, both have at least a decade of governing /legislative experience to draw on in debating policy. I think Huckabee is the better counterweight to Biden's blue collar appeal though, and would generate more 'instant' excitement in some quarters of the base. 

BTW... Mike has done extensive travelling to Asia, Africa and the Middle East since withdrawing from the race. His trip to Israel received lots of buzz locally, and possibly shored up his ability to reach out to our local Jewish voting bloc.

He's scheduled to do a Colbert report taping this month???? (From Colbert's facebook group) He hasn't done a late night stop since he was campaigning!! Why now?

Also, the level of security around Huck has been increased. A Huckabee supporter on Huck's Army posted that in trying to get a postcard to Huck at a recent event, the security detail would not let her get close, and she had to open the envelope and expose the contents before they took it to him. This was last week. At the time we wondered if he was getting threats because of the inntensity of the 'bigotry' discussion going on in the media and blogosphere. Huck has never had security beyond the few assistants who went everywhere with him on the campsign trail. What's up?

And for the first time ever, Huck declined to comment about his or anybody's  veep prospects on Greta tonight.. no humorous comment about not having given anybody fingerprints?

It's still a long, long shot.. but the next few days will be very interesting.

I don't think McCain has finalized his choice, and this Biden pick could be a game changer, to the extent that the WAY McCain decides to go after Biden could affect his own options regarding his own running mate.

There really doesn't seem to be any clear cut choice. Hopefully McCain will make a choice that does more good than harm.