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Nancy Pelosi must need Chet Edwards to do her some kind of special favor, because she’s buttering up his Texas behind big time. The Houston Chronicle is relishing the spectacle, trying to pump up Pelosi’s idea that Chet Edwards would be a great Vice Presidential pick.

Gag me, Pelosi. Chet Edwards would be a terrible Vice Presidential pick.

At a time when Democrats are already fuming mad at Barack Obama for supporting the FISA Amendment Act’s severe attacks on the Constitution, picking Chet Edwards for VP could make things even worse for Obama, provoking many Democrats to actually stay home on the first post-Bush Election Day.

The Houston Chronicle, salivating at the idea of keeping a Texan in the White House, writes, “Many Democrats would relish the irony of having George W. Bush’s own congressman — who has defeated a string of well-financed GOP challengers — on their national ticket.”

Really? How many Democrats do you know who have said anything like this? Who, outside of Texas, besides the increasingly craven Nancy Pelosi, has actually indicated any interest in having someone from Bush country on the 2008 Democratic presidential ticket?

You know that popular bumper sticker, Somewhere in Texas a village is missing its idiot? Well, rumor has it that the village has actually lost two idiots, and Chet Edwards is idiot #2.

Chet Edwards for Vice President would be a Republican’s dream come true. Back in 2002, Chet Edwards voted in favor of George W. Bush’s plan to rush to war in Iraq. Since then Congressman Edwards has voted for almost every one of George W. Bush’s most extreme pieces of legislation.

Chet Edwards voted yes on the Military Commissions Act.
Chet Edwards voted yes on the Protect America Act, and then he voted for the FISA Amendments Act.
Chet Edwards voted to approve the Patriot Act, without reading it, and then voted again in favor of re-authorizing the Patriot Act, and expanding its abusive powers, after he finally did read it.

Chet Edwards has voted for pandering flag burning bills, for credit card companies’ efforts to squeeze bankrupt Americans for a few more pennies, against protecting GLBT Americans from discrimination.

You name a bad idea, and the chances are that Chet Edwards has been for it.

Chet Edwards would be Barack Obama’s Dan Quayle. Choosing Chet Edwards as a Vice Presidential running mate would be a contradiction of everything that Barack Obama says that he stands for. If Obama chooses Chet Edwards, he can only depend on the votes of Americans who only get their news from cable TV networks… which, sadly, means that he still might win.

Even as whiplashed as I am about Barack Obama’s mind-numbingly stupid decision to support the FISA Amendments Act, I can’t believe that he would choose Chet Edwards as Vice President. Even just on the strategic level, the choice makes no sense. Barack Obama is criticized for having no executive experience. Chet Edwards, as a member of the House of Representatives, doesn’t help Obama in that regard at all.

Besides, who really believes that picking Chet Edwards would swing Texas to Obama? Texas is never ever ever ever ever going to give its Electoral College votes to Barack Obama. Choosing Chet Edwards would bring no geographic advantage whatsoever.

Of course, the 2008 election season has been characterized by a series of shockingly dim-witted choices. Maybe Chet Edwards will just be the next one.