Mitt brings experience (yes, it is very important), he brings statesmanship and leadership, he brings ideas and a willingness to actually do something other than talk. Plus, as Barnes says, he is a known quantity and a decently popular one at that. Mitt is also pragmatic - he chooses his battles, does what is doable, and often succeeds spectacularly. I would suspect that you think we need politicians that act like politicians because that is what we always have had. When someone comes along willing to actually make things work, instead of taking bow-necked "stands on principle" that get nothing done, he gets called a panderer, a flip-flopper, an empty suit. You cannot see past your own cynical nose.

'sides, the POTUS job is way too big for one man anyway. McCain cares nothing about domestic policy (just like Bush 41), cares passionately about foreign policy, doesn't understand fiscal policy. Perhaps it is only a wish, but I would think that the country would do well to consider the Prez/VP ticket as a team, with one actually complimenting the strengths and making up for weakness in the other. Whatever the POTUS isn't interested in the VPOTUS ought to be out leading the charge for. Administrations so often end up targeted at one issue that they let everything else slide. Why? Because there is only so much one man can think about or do in four or eight years. Perhaps a real team can actually get something done on multiple fronts, assuming they want to.

Huckabee looks like an even bigger jerk for staying in the race "just to win more delegates than Romney".

This whole republican primary has blown chunks IMHO and this story about Romney groveling for a position in a McCain white house clearly shows what politicians will stoop to in order to get/keep/maintain power.

Prostitutes anyone?