Who is this Maverick going to choose for his Goose?

Where is Joe Lieberman? Not even in the top 3???

Don Imus, are people suprised by this? I didn't think any self respecting politician would go on his show. I could not stand him when I lived on the East Coast, and didn't listen to him enough to find out how bad he was. But, you would think McCain would be politically smart enough to avoid him.

McCain really needs to choose Joe Lieberman. Then the press can trumpet how non-partisan McCain is being and his campaign can get some much needed Joementum.

YAWN

McCain/Clinton '08

JEB, that is.......... Dumber than a fucking box of rocks. He signed the PNAC Manifesto.

They will lose and it won't matter.

... As long as Dick Cheney isn't vetting his VPs.

...Romney, the guy with the magic underwear. I am thoroughly disgusted with BroomHilda and TheGoodTalker, but, By_god, I am three hundred percent fed up with the religious right, and if he chooses Magic_Underwear_Guy, I'm gone to the Dems.

Jimbob

His closet is not just full of skeletons.

You beat me to it! Maverick's Goose indeed (as in gay as a...).

He will lose if he does not pick Condoleeza. He may well win if he picks her.

Quoth timbuktom:

McCain would be crazy not to pick Condoleeza Rice

He will lose if he does not pick Condoleeza. He may well win if he picks her.

Is Condi even interested in becoming vice president? The recent interviews I've read suggest she's not, and may be looking forward to returning to academia.

I'm surprised the Times suggests that Tom Ridge is in the mix. Does McCain really want to alienate social conservatives even more by selecting someone who's pro-choice as his veep? If Ridge is being seriously considered, it would be a signal that McCain is giving up on the religious right's vote altogether, in exchange for a run for the center of the political spectrum. Not that that's necessarily a bad strategy, but it turns the last 8 years of conventional wisdom on its head.

Crist would have to resign, probably, unless he can get the Florida legislature to repeal the statute that forbids him from running for federal office. He has a huge majority in both houses of the state legislature, so it's not out of the question.

Lieberman wouldn't do anything for McCain, just as he didn't do anything for Gore.

Thune's name has been bandied about. He wouldn't bring any big constituency: South Dakota has three electoral votes, tied for the lowest in the nation. No one outside the state knows who he is, though he's a "reliable" reactionary.

Lindsey Graham's name has also been mentioned. That will surely get someone to drag him out of the closet. See the DOJ story at Salon today, with an anonymous Republican being quoted as saying that being gay is "worse than being a Democrat."

Huckabee said in February that he was not interested in being Veep.

Alaska's Sarah Palin is losing some of luster and about to have another baby. Three electoral votes.

If McCain went with Ridge, the fundy wingnuts would stay home. That's the "base."

Jeb is dumb, as another poster said, but popular in a big state. However his wife's smuggling, his dope fiend daughter, his prostitute-patronizing son, his little-known hookups with the for-profit prison industry and last of all, Ms. Wingnut 2000-2006 herself, ex-Rep. Cathy Harris could cost him nationally. McCain has said he doesn't want to make a Dan Quale mistake. Bush would inevitably bring to mind another Bush, or two, and Quale in the bargain. Who in their right mind would vote for four more Bush years? (Fundies are by definition, inhabiting their 6,000-year-old world, not in their "right mind.")

Gee, another presidential ticket populated with the same tired white men: what a refreshing surprise that is!

says Cheney will keep the job because they can't let the skeletons loose from the vp mansion. But what I'm really wondering is why Voinovich isn't on anybody's list. He could probably deliver Ohio and help in other midwest states.

If McCain keeps worrying about getting the last reich-winger, he is going to drive away the independents who are his natural base. Of course his 100-year Iraq war is going to make that difficult no matter what but it seems he hasn't alienated the middle yet surprisingly enough.

Democrats should work to make this happen. Imagine, curing two problems at once! Go Joe!

Simple as that.

There is too much buzz about Crist's sexual orientation for McCain to take the risk of choosing him as VP.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-fiderer/does-the-media-advise-and_b_90014.html