HOW MCCAIN CAN BEAT THE DEMOCRATS — with Vice President Thompson.

Or there’s always J.C. Watts.

Or Bionic Dick Cheney! Okay, I’m pretty sure that last suggestion wasn’t serious.

Some related thoughts from Sissy Willis.

UPDATE: A reader emails: “Sounds similar to Lincoln’s cabinet in ‘A Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln’ by Doris Kearns Goodwin.”