Mmmmmmm! Is that a hint of  corruption I taste?

Faced with having to run against a strapping young buck like Barack Obama, the doddering, senior discount, I-wasn’t-sleeping-I-was-resting-my-eyes campaign of John McCain has been desperate to stir some youngblood into their morning Metamucil. Having flirted briefly with 12 year-old  Bobby Jindal who then proceeded to exorcise himself from consideration, the McCain people have now turned their rheumy eyes to Eric Cantor who, weighing in at a mere 45 years-old, is half John McCain’s age:

John McCain’s campaign has asked Virginia Rep. Eric Cantor for personal documents as the Republican presidential candidate steps up his search for a running mate, The Associated Press has learned.

Cantor, 45, the chief deputy minority whip in the House, has been mentioned among several Republicans as a possible running mate for McCain. A Republican familiar with the conversations between Cantor and the McCain campaign said Cantor has been asked to turn over documents, but did not know specifically what records were sought.

We assume, mixed in with those papers,  that they won’t be finding a souvenir, personally-autographed menu from Jack Abramoff’s deli Stacked:

Lawmakers and their staffs took golfing trips that Abramoff arranged–and sometimes paid for–to Scotland and the Northern Mariana Islands. Abramoff’s now defunct restaurant Signatures was host to more than 60 fund raisers for members of Congress and often neglected to send a bill. At the lobbyist’s delicatessen Stacks, Abramoff even named a sandwich after Congressman Eric Cantor at a $500-a-plate fund raiser in January 2003. (Cantor later asked the deli to switch his namesake sandwich from tuna to roast beef on challah, "a deli special that exudes Jewish power," wrote the Jewish newspaper the Forward.)

I bet Cantor would like to have that challah back, boy.

We previously covered Cantor here. I assume that John McCain is dazzled by someone who knows how to use that computer box machine that all of the kids are talking about.