Last night on Fox, host Geraldo Rivera asked Bob Novak “who does McCain pick as his running mate” if he were to win the Republican nomination? “The most interesting running mate I’ve heard is Condoleezza Rice,” Novak said, eliciting a big “whoa” from Rivera. “Ordinary people” think the McCain/Rice pairing is “terrific,” Novak said, but “politicians don’t like it.” Watch it:

Editor’s Note: After checking the transcript, it appears Novak said “politicians” — not Republicans — “don’t like it.” Thanks to the commenters who raised this.

I should be on Fox News today around 12:40 PM eastern time and what better way to spend your bye week than by watching?

On Fox News Sunday this morning, New York Times columnist William Kristol announced that Vice President Dick Cheney’s daughter, Liz, was endorsing former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. That led host Chris Wallace to ask if “secretly, or maybe not so secretly, the Bushes and Cheneys support Mitt Romney?” “I think some of the Bush family do support Romney, I think that’s pretty clear,” remarked Fox’s Brit Hume. Watch it:

Romney has also delivered a major speech on religion at the library of former president George H.W. Bush and has been courting former Florida governor Jeb Bush.

Graphic designers take a look at presidential campaign signs. Obama and McCain have the edge, but Edwards stands out from the crowd as the lone sans serif candidate.

During the Republican presidential debate last Thursday night, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee suggested that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, hid them like Easter eggs, and then secretly moved them to Jordan.

Today on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace pressed Huckabee to offer evidence to support this claim. “Governor, the Iraq Survey Group looked around Iraq for months after the invasion,” Wallace noted, and “could find no evidence that Saddam Hussein had an active program…Do you have any evidence of that contention?” Huckabee answered:

I don’t have any evidence. [Saddam] was the one who announced openly he had weapons of mass destruction. He’s the one who had used similar weapons in the past. Let’s remember that both Democrats and Republicans and our intelligence agencies believed that he had them.

My point was that, no, we didn’t find them. Did they get into Syria? Did they get into some remote area of Jordan? Did they go some other place? We don’t know. They may not have existed. But simply saying — we didn’t find them so therefore they didn’t exist — is a bit of an overreach.

Watch it:

Huckabee appears to view the lack of any evidence of Iraqi WMD as proof that they existed. CBS’s 60 Minutes reports tonight that Saddam led others to believe he had WMD because he “didn’t think the U.S. would invade Iraq to destroy weapons of mass destruction, so he kept the fact that he had none a secret to prevent an Iranian invasion he believed could happen.”

Huckabee defended Bush’s decision to invade Iraq, arguing that the President is like “the quarterback of the NFL team [that] didn’t get the winning play.” It’s easy to offer Monday morning criticism of him, but Bush “deserves credit for taking action” because it’s different when “you’ve been on the NFL field and you’ve taken a couple of hits from 300-pound linemen,” Huckabee explained.

UPDATE: On CNN’s Late Edition, Huckabee further defended his claims: Read more

Here it is on video:

I would link to Hillary Clinton’s concession speech but she, um, didn’t deliver one. That combined with the Calvinball effort to get us to all go pay attention to Florida is pretty classless. She’s still got a clear lead in the clear bulk of the February 5 states so that sort of funny business seems uncalled for.