You'd think that as the AG, he might think about even a cursory background check of his running mate before going public with it
My wife has a good feel for politicians (and before anyone asks, she's waaaay to the left of me politically). She pegged John Edwards as a moron the first time she heard him speak on the radio. When she caught clips of Reilly's news conference on the tube today, her instant take on him was "world class dumbass".