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I appreciate it when Sen. McCain takes a break from kicking Conservatives in the shins.

Limbaugh said today that the word is he’s seriously floating Lieberman. Polling delegates and big-money contributors on the prospect.

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Fell better now? yes

and if you saw Warren on h&C yesterday you see that he is as conservarive as us!

And I g-tee that the vp will be pro life

more later

busy suing and defending more lately

He was my prediction(though I have a tendency to pick long shots, I figure if I were actually betting I would be offered some good odds on that pick). It would reinforce the whole “maverick” thing and also the national security thing and get the Republicans a lot of free press about how he didn’t leave the Democrats the Democrats left him and blah blah blah. And theoretically shore up the Jewish vote, even though a poll I saw shows Jews like Obama over Lieberman by a big margin.

with so much time to go.

I love speculating, too, don’t get me wrong. But since we have good reason to believe that McCain will wait to announce until after the DNC, he can respond to Obama’s pick. And since he can respond, he can still change his selection between now and then, if necessary.

That being said, I would prefer that McCain not “respond” to Obama, and that he instead choose a firm VP with whom he is (and we are) confident, regardless of the opposition.

You frighten us. :>)

Were we not on your good side already, we would be on our knees before The One begging for protection.

At least we HOPE we’re on your good side.

Forgive me, but I don’t believe this for a second. I still believe Ridge is under consideration. I know Erick doesn’t care for Politico, but Mike Allen has a story up at 2:40 saying Ridge is under strong consideration.

Worse though, it now seems Lieberman is at the top of McCain’s wish list. They are polling state party leaders about the possibilty of Lieberman. Even Rush is concerned and that means Lieberman is now the most likely choice.

Truth be told, part of me hopes McCain does choose Lieberman. I love train wrecks and that is what the convention would be. We could have a floor fight and maybe end up with a good conservative at the top of the ticket as well.

someone (not Ridge or Lieberman) who was pro choice and an unconventional choice would play w/Republicans. (Answer: not well).

My guess: Meg Whitman (see: Saddleback forum) or less likely, Carly fiorina.

I’ve always thought McCain wanted to have a woman as running mate and Whitman was a serious prospect.

Hopefully this puts Palin back in the mix, as she is my top choice.

I am SO SICK of zealots on both sides screaming about abortion as the litmus test for a President. Who cares! ENOUGH! Lets worry about issues that matter such as insnae government spending, immigration, “diversity” and campaign corruption. When we start giving free condoms to everyone at 14, and drop the laughable abstinence fantasy, we can reduce the need for abortions and focus on what matters – quality of life issues!

First, for the swing voters in this election, abortion is not the most important issue

Second, there’s some real value in being able to campaign on a national unity ticket (as Lincoln did in 1864).

For the adamant pro-life crowd, ask yourself this: if Lieberman got the nod, would you seriously sit the election out, figuring that an Obama victory would be better?

The President has a secondary impact on abortion, at best. He nominates judges, who then do whatever they do (see: Kennedy).

because the infanticidal Obama is a McCain killer (okay winning) issue.

Why? Consider my the 70s year old mother. She is a Republican but qualifies herself that early term abortion is acceptable (“every child should be wanted”). She also thinks gays should marry so they can suffer with the rest of us. Hey — I try to talk sense into mom — but haven’t hit the right combination of guilt manipulation and logic.

All the same — when she heard about Obama’s position on killing the almost born and those that escape/evade abortion — well her comments were “that is evil”, “the most evil think I have ever heard”, “how can anyone withhold medical care from a newborn baby”. She was heart sick that someone could think this was acceptable. (“Why it isn’t any better than smashing their heads against rocks — isn’t that in the Koran?”)

Mother is so scared that Obama’s evil could get into the White House that she would rather have Hillary as President than risk a McCain loss to Obama — and Republican mom would never want a Hillary President. She is still hoping the DNC drop Obama and pick Hillary to keep this from happening.

If McCain picks a pro-choice running mate then Obama slides his infanticide ways off the table. As even those, like the mom, who find early term abortion acceptable even with all the advancement of science regarding what happens in the womb (as if the Bible telling us so wasn’t good enough)are so repulsed by the Obama position that they can’t support him regardless.

Not only does McCain offend the pro-life crowd with a pro-choice candidate. He also would drop those pro-choice persons who are unwilling to accept the Obama position.

While I’m glad to hear Ridge is out, (presuming the RNC has it right), the larger issue is McCain has still been floating the possibility of a pro-Choice veep with state party leaders.

Its true Ridge had other problems -opposing SDI missile defense, lobbying for Brill’s RT program (Brill has donated the max to Obama’s campaign and not McCain’s), and Rasmussen Reports has polled more people in his own state being less likely to vote for a McCain/Ridge ticket than would those more likely to vote for it, took a condescending sarcastic tone towards the base who were upset by the possibility, etc.

But until McCain or someone who can speak for him indicates we won’t have a Pro-Choice veep, I’m not sleeping easy. Why is it that when someone breaks from the party line we call them a troll, but the pro-choicers get a free pass? I know people talk about us needing to have a “big tent” and bring in different types of people into the fold. There is truth to that. But:

1. That doesn’t mean key leadership positions are the means to do it when it means compromsing ideology.

2. Reagan’s “big tent” did not involve compromising our principles.

3. Most importantly, having a pro-choice veep does not make our tent bigger. It moves the tent to the left. Which means those of us on the right side no longer fit under the tent. And guess what? There are more of us that would get pushed out of the tent on the right than there are who would be persuaded in the middle.

The true “big tent” approach, in the Reagan sense, here is to bring in disaffected women voters into the fold. Palin is the head above shoulders best choice here. She appeals to the base, and she appeals to the middle. We’ve got a huge gender gap in all the swing states, often of 15, 20, sometimes 40 points (NJ), according to Rasmussen. And I’m not saying pick her because she’s a woman either. If I were, I would also promote Fiorina or Whitman or Hutchinson. Palin’s appeal reaches ethics reform, being a maverick, the best governor in the nation on energy issues, an astronomical approval rating, executive experience, low taxes (0% income tax), appeal to youth, an incredible life story, etc.

McCain does not need a veep with established foreign policy credentials, he’s already dominated that debate. A governor is not going to hurt him there. He needs to centerpiece energy, he needs to not piss off the Pro-Life vote (which is one of the few issues on which we still as a party outperforming the Democrats on at the polls, even in 2006), he needs a candidate with a squeaky clean ethics resume, he needs a fiscal conservative, a compassionate social conservative, he needs someone who will jolt energy into his campaign.

Ridge, Lieberman and Giuliani, fine men each of them, each fail miserably on too many of these points as a veep. They would harm the ticket.

A real story is when one of redstate’s own: counseled not to trash saddleback challenge before the fact; accurately predicted McCain, then Obama, then Pelosi and dems in general would cave on oil drilling months ago; predicted 18 moths ago that the gop would win the presidency due to dem’s nomination of a leftist before there was an obama; predicted obama would lose general due to leftism ala mcgovern, carter II, mondale, dukakis. gore and kerry; predicted Bush, McCain and US will declare victory in Iraq before Election Day 2008 and

stay tuned

Predicted weeks ago that McCain will pick pro-life vp

no sweat

Theres no reason to pick a liberal for a running mate when such a highly qualified, and extremely popular, Conservative choice like Governor Palin is available. She brings so much to the ticket that has already been pointed out by others, the energy issue, fighting corruption in Alaska, Executive experience, etc. and of course the historic nature of becoming the first female Vice President will obviously be a huge bonus.

There’s just no reason to pick somebody who supports abortion when the right pick is so obvious. McCain-Palin 08!

I like Palin but I honesty think that there is this big swelling for her at RS because of the way she looks. That’s a cosmetic (but not good) reason to vote for someone. It’s like women who voted for Clinton because they liked his hair.
Come on guys!

Romney or Pawlenty are the ones who make you competitive in the upper Midwest. Alaska will vote GOP. No gain there.

considered be a problem…? Oh well…