Down To His Last Gasp, Huckabee Considering Sawyer As Running Mate

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, in a last-ditch attempt to wrest the Republican presidential nomination from Arizona Sen. John McCain, has announced that he will name former RAFT captain Tom Sawyer (R-Miss) as his running mate. It has long been speculated in political circles that Sawyer would make a perfect running mate for Huckabee, but nagging rumors about Sawyer's relationship with a Missouri lobbyist, Becky Thatcher, apparently have made Huckabee reluctant to embrace the charismatic former skipper of the RAFT team. However, Huckabee's campaign staff have conducted several interviews with both Sawyer and Thatcher, and have determined that, while Ms. Thatcher may have gone down on Sawyer once or twice, the relationship otherwise was fairly platonic... In a statement to reporters, Sawyer said, "If selected, I would be honored to serve with Mike Huckabee, and together we would lead a more determined effort to battle terrorism, by sending forces into the tribal regions along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border to find the most notorious criminal in the world... Injun Joe..."

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