With Hillary's incredible victory in West Virginia, she has the leverage now to rub it in Obama's face!

Hillary will almost certainly select Charlie Rangle to be her running mate ... assuming that both Jeremiah Wright and Al Sharpton turn her down first!

But I would choose ol' Charlie. He's an old-school Democrat who more closely matches Hillary's fiscal policies and isn't likely to say things like, "God damn America!" in an October stump speech. He would likely pull Hillary toward the left in suggesting that taxes be raised beyond pre-Reagan rates on those earning more than $250,000 per year ... and besides, he's one of the few African Americans not to have jumped over to Obama after the superdelegates began jumping ship.

Yeh ... the more I think about it, the more I believe that Hillary should cross both the Right Reverend Jeremiah and Al Sharpton off her short list.

I wonder who my brother Richard in Connecticut thinks she'll choose now that she's finally upended Barack Obama.

The last I looked, her lead over Barack in West Virginia was 67% - 26% with John Edwards (remember him?) still on the ballots there and getting 7%.

(Who's John McCain?)