Put Shelby Steele on that ticket at the top and you’d have a conservative winner.
Every now and then you read about a patriotic black man and wonder if his politics would do for a Republican candidate. For example, Lt. Col. Greg Gadson, the Iraq War amputee who was visited in Walter Reed by his old West Point football teammate, now a coach for the NY Giants. The coach asked Gadson to give the Giants a pep talk when they were down and out - and he inspired them so much that they not only made the playoffs but won the Superbowl.John McCain will be our presidential nominee - that is baked in the cake.
The Democrats will either nominate Obama for president, or will have Obama or some other black as their running mate. Whoever it is will be a leftist as much as Obama and Clinton are - and equally divisive while claiming to be "against politics as usual." That is baked in the cake, too.
IOW, the Democrats are setting up a scenario in which the defeat of their ticket would be politically incorrect, and "justification" for riots. The conclusion is that McCain would be well served - and would serve the country well - by nominating an inspirational figure for VP. A black American patriot. Then when the Democratic ticket self destructs - as seems probable at this point - the identity of the VP- elect will be news. And if rioting were to eventuate, McCain could simply announce that he is having a tonsillectomy or something, and that the VP was the acting POTUS. And he could simply say, "knock it off," and the riot would instantly be delegitimated. An entirely different scenario than the Rodney King riots.