http://blog.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2008/08/mitt_for_veep_stopping_joggers.html
“”The veep frenzy is getting crazier by the minute. One Sleuth informant this morning was certain he had cracked the mystery of who will become John McCain’s running mate. The evidence was a big, glossy poster with Mitt Romney’s face on it and the message “MITT FOR VEEP/McCain-Romney ‘08” being carried under the arm of one Ron Kaufman, the hotshot Washington lobbyist who served as a senior adviser to Romney’s presidential campaign.
Signs of a ‘Romney for Veep’ Movement? Our informant says he saw Kaufman walking to his car carrying “a couple of McCain-Romney ‘08 placards.” Maybe he was on his way to McCain headquarters with the signs.
Actually, it was just one sign. “I stole it, to be honest,” Kaufman tells the Sleuth.
The lobbyist was out jogging this morning and saw the “Mitt for Veep” sign posted on a lamppost at the corner of 6th Street SE and Pennsylvania Avenue.
“I was shocked,” says Kaufman, who actually cost Romney some grief on the campaign trail after the former Massachusetts governor declared, “I don’t have lobbyists running my campaign.”
Kaufman liked the sign so much that he took it. “I said to myself, ‘No one will believe I didn’t make this.’ But I’m innocent, for once,” he told us by phone.
In small lettering along the side, the McCain-Romney sign touts the Web site MittforVeep.com, where — for a mere two bucks — you, too, can own a “Mitt for Veep” sign.
While Romney is actively campaigning today for the man who could choose him as a running mate, he continues to be coy about his prospects on the GOP ticket.
But you can imagine where Kaufman comes down on the issue.
“He’d be a great pick,” Kaufman says, adding that McCain either needs to pick “a solid Republican who energizes the base” or someone who “reinforces McCain’s brand as an independent Republican.” And Romney, he says, “is a solid Republican who would energize the base.”
Stay tuned to see whether Mitt will have that opportunity.””