My previous post lacked clarity, which is a writer’s besetting sin. (“Be clear, be clear, and yet again I say, be clear,” said the columnist of a generation ago, James J. Kilpatrick.) Here is the essential point I meant to convey: That while Huckabee said in his concession remarks that he still aimed to be our 44th president, you got the sense that he wouldn’t mind being the choice for veep on a Republican ticket headed by McCain. That scenario, given how the race has now shaped up, is more likely than one in which Huckabee winds up as the GOP presidential nominee.
