John McCain Should Reveal His Vice Presidential Pick Today
by John Little on 29/08/2008It sounds like the more controversial candidates were bypassed in favor of a safer pick:
McCain will appear with his No. 2 at an Ohio rally on Friday, aides said, though they provided no details on whom he had chosen to join the Republican ticket. At least two more rallies are planned for Pennsylvania and Missouri in the run up to next week’s convention.
Others believed to be in contention include Democrat-turned-independent Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, who was vacationing on New York’s Long Island, and former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge.
However, fueling speculation that McCain had chosen either Pawlenty or Romney or another conservative Republican, two GOP officials said they believed McCain had picked a traditional candidate. They based their conclusion on the fact that the campaign, which once had put the party on notice to prepare for the possibility of an unconventional candidate, does not have preparations in place to curb the fallout from a right flank that certainly would revolt if Ridge, an abortion-rights backer, or Lieberman, a former Democrat, was on the ticket.
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