STEVE INSKEEP, host: This next bit of news had a television talk show host smiling. Four words - Stephen Colbert, Vice President.</s>Mr. MIKE HUCKABEE (Former Republican Governor, Arkansas; Presidential Candidate): Stephen, please, be my running mate.</s>Mr. STEPHEN COLBERT (Host): Yes! Yes, a thousand times, yes!</s>STEVE INSKEEP, host: I think that means yes. That's Mike Huckabee sealing the deal on "The Colbert Report" last night. Stephen Colbert enthusiastically agreed for the fourth time, by the way, to be Huckabee's running mate.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, host: South Carolina's Democratic Party did not allow the comedian to enter its primaries a presidential candidate. But if the former Arkansas governor gets the Republican nomination, Colbert could make the ballot after all.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, host: It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News.
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee makes a tongue-in-cheek vice-presidential offer to Stephen Colbert, whose TV character lampoons right-wing talk-show hosts.