Finally, McCain doing some meaningful pandering to the right.
It won’t be long before he issues an apology and at the same time praises Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
McCain has been known to tell a bald faced lie every once in a while, i.e. Romney’s position on Iraq timetables down in Florida.
It’s all a craps shoot IMO, if Chuckie Schumer and Teddy Kennedy get his ear.
The Constitution requires that the VP be qualified in the same sense that the POTUS is qualified - native born American, over 35, not a felon - but adds the additional qualification that (s)he be from a different state than the POTUS (or else that (s)he win without the electoral votes of her home state, which was a pretty severe handicap back when there were very few states).The position of VP nominally exists pretty much as a backup for the position of POTUS, but the added constraint on how the VP is elected is actually an incentive for affirmative action. Any nominee for POTUS has a constitutional mandate to use the VP nomination is to be made to send a message which will unify the country. Which is, after all, what the presidential nominee should want - to unify the country around his administration.
Clearly McCain is trying to unite conservatives with him over the issue of SCOTUS appointees, and just as clearly his intended victory over Obama would tend to disunite the country over race. It follows that the nomination of a black whom conservatives would respect if nominated for SCOTUS justice would serve McCain very well. Janice Rodgers Brown comes to mind, tho I would wonder if the first woman as well as the first black would be ground that you would want to break simultaneously, or if it might not come across as "too clever by half."
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