My guess is anyone's guess

Who will John McCain pick as his running mate?

In the last post, I suggested Lieberman (for the second time, BTW...) but good arguments can be made against him -- just as good arguments can be made for or against most of the possible choices.

Writing for Pajamas Media, John Hawkins takes a look at the leading contenders (including Lieberman), and asks,

Will he choose a vice president who can help him patch things up with conservatives or will he go the other way and choose someone who would broaden his appeal to independents? Will McCain pick a veep who will add strength to the ticket as a whole or will he narrow his focus and take someone who can help in a particular state or demographic group?
There's no way for me to even hazard a guess at this point. McCain has a certain inscrutability to him. I've studied him and I can't read him; he just doesn't give himself away. Whether he was born that way, whether it comes from his military background, or whether it's a survival trait he picked up during his years as a POW, I don't know. I do know that his inscrutability (which probably goes hand in hand with his calmness under fire) is one of the things I most like about him.

And it might not be a bad trait to have in a wartime leader.

MORE: Jonah Goldberg is taking heat from Rush Limbaugh for daring to suggest Lieberman as a running mate, and I'm sure countless other conservatives would agree with Limbaugh.

(Only because they want nothing more than for McCain to win, of course....)

posted by Eric on 05.23.08 at 11:25 AM





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He needs someone to galvanize the conservative base of the party. Fred Thompson had an editorial in the Wall Street Journal today that reads like a campaign plank.

Joseph Sixpack   ·  May 23, 2008 01:51 PM

McCain has it easy picking a veep candidate.

He needs somebody who can reassure and re-energize the conservative base, since turnout is key.
And someone who can appeal to the suburban moderates in Chicago and Philadelphia and the like, who abandoned the GOP in '06.
And someone who can bring the Rockefeller Republicans from the Northeast back into the fold (and make CT, NJ, and DE competitive).
And keep the Catholic, Reagan Democrats in MI, PA and OH out of the Obama camp.
And someone young, to offset the age issue.
But not so young as to be too much of a contrast.
And a woman or a minority wouldn't hurt.
Except for a religious minority, since we don't want anybody from a religion that could be perceived as a cult (i.e., no Mormons need apply).

Anything short of that will be perceived by the national media as a disastrous choice who, nonetheless, would be part of a winning ticket.

Rhodium Heart   ·  May 25, 2008 01:45 AM

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