Without much substance, David Axelrod was effective on ABC this morning talking about the middle class. Rich is right, if McCain doesn’t start resonating there, he’s going to have a very hard time winning. As lame as it is, if that kitchen-table joke Biden made yesterday is any indication, that’s going to remain a theme, and people may eat it up.

A scary thought this Sunday morning: We’re being distracted by Romney (who would be the choice if he wasn’t the richest guy in the race many of his opponents — including McCain — had an inexplicable bitterness toward for being rich … Romney is outside McCain’s comfort zone), Pawlenty (who would be the choice if we knew he could hold his own against Biden; we don’t), and Lieberman (who would be the case if McCain has an I-can-do-anything messiah complex we say Obama has). The real veep pick is Huckabee, who frequently sounds good and looks like a middle-class guy. Save for the fact Huckabee is pro-life, that would be some signal McCain would be sending to conservatives though …