McCain Reportedly Has Made His VP Pick; Mitt Romney Said to Be "Out"
While the Democrats in Denver flail around trying to find a coherent message with which to attack Barack Obama, John McCain has apparently decided on his Vice-Presidential running mate. But we don't yet know who it is! U.S. News reports that Mitt Romney is "out." McCain will reportedly inform the winner tomorrow and then announce it on Friday at the 12 Noon ET rally in Dayton, Ohio.
I would not be surprised though, if word just happened to leak out to some intrepid reporter late tomorrow afternoon - just about the time Obama begins his speech at the Parthenon in Invesco Field:
Sen. McCain has chosen his running mate and the person will be notified on Thursday, a senior campaign official said.
A friend said McCain had pretty much settled on his selection early this week, and it crystallized in the past few days. Campaign manager Rick Davis flew to McCain's cabin in Sedona, Ariz., a few days ago to confer, and another meeting about the choice was held with top aides Wednesday.
The news leaked on the third night of the Democratic National Convention, detracting attention from speeches by former President Bill Clinton and the Democratic ticket mate, Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware.
McCain's selection process has been conducted mostly in secret, but officials said he was considering one or more candidates who support abortion rights. The disclosure set off a fracas on the right wing, with talk-show host Rush Limbaugh saying such a selection would destroy the party.
McCain is planning to roll out his vice presidential nominee in three battleground states this weekend, with large-scale rallies planned for Ohio, Pennsylvania and Missouri, according to aides and advisers.
The GOP nominee-in-waiting will move to immediately change the campaign conversation from Barack Obama’s football stadium acceptance speech Thursday to the new Republican ticket, to be revealed at a noontime Friday rally in a Dayton, Ohio, basketball arena. McCain and his running mate will then travel by bus to Pennsylvania, where they’ll hold an outdoor event at a minor league baseball stadium in Washington County, just southwest of Pittsburgh. On Sunday, the duo will head to suburban St. Louis for another event to be held at a minor league baseball stadium, this one in O’Fallon, Mo.
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If Karl Rove does not want
If Karl Rove does not want Joe Lieberman, then Joe Lieberman it has GOT to be. (Not that there aren't other good reasons for it to be Lieberman.)
I can't think of a clearer way for John McCain to make it clear that he rejects the worst aspects of the Bush administraton. The good aspects of GWB, he can readly build upon. He's already done that and is doing it. But by rejecting Rove on so fundamental a demand, Big Mac defends HIS Presidency AND puts a firewall between his independence and the DE-pendence that the Rove Gang wants to put Big Mac into.
Rove has been pushing Romney. If Romney is indeed "out," as I have hear, that too sends a message: Big Mc will be HIS man, NOT the Rove Gang's..!!
Great
You are right. That most fundemantal thing McCain has going for him is that he is his own man. I will be sooooo relieved if it is indeed true Romney is out. Not only do I not trust the man, if McCain had surcome to the pressure of the establishment, he would have lost his most important asset.
You are wrong on Lieberman. I actually think he would be challenged at the convention if he were the pick. I respect his postion on the war and I admire him for leaving the party that sold him out. I see him in the cabinet, but not on the ticket. McCain would loose too much of the pro-life vote.