Congratulations on the big win this week.  Now please make sure that Saturday is the last day we have to hear about a "dream" ticket with Mrs. Clinton as the VP.  It would only be a dream for John McCain, for the rest of us it's a nightmare.

Adding Hillary Clinton, and all her baggage to your campaign is a bad idea on so many levels, but here are the highlights:

1) You don't need her - let her take her 18 million marbles and go home tomorrow.  The majority of her votes would never go to McCain, and many would come your way just to keep McCain out of the White House.

2) Every day that the speculation about a Clinton VP spot is allowed to continue is another day that your real message isn't getting out there.  The Clinton circus has a way of sucking up all available media space so you need to get the focus back on you quickly.

3) Dragging Hillary Clinton into your campaign would be an admission that your message of change isn't very serious, or you never believed it in the first place.  Your campaign was, and should be again, about sweeping out the old (mostly white, mostly guys) and bringing in new people and new thinking.

You could lock this thing up, or close to it, this weekend by doing two things: 1) put an emphatic end to the Clinton story; and, 2) have a few meetings with VP candidates that would get Republicans interested (and give John McCain some fits while you're at it).  Have lunch with some people like Sam Nunn and Jim Webb.  Even if they're not really interested, it would be fun.

This election should be about exciting new ideas and opportunities.  That will take exciting new people to make it happen, not someone that's going to remind most voters of their doddering grandparents.