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I seriously doubt he’d pick Lieberman, but I wouldn’t have a huge problem with it. IMO, if McCain thought he could get away with a pro-abort like Lieberman, he’d just nominate his buddy Tom Ridge. I’d rather see Lieberman than Ridge because we know for sure no Republican would be backing Lieberman for President after McCain.

In the abstract, it doesn’t really matter who has Veep is as long as McCain doesn’t die in the next 4-8 years. I like Lieberman(as a human being) better than anyone on his short list other than Jindal, and I’d just as soon not have Jindal tainted by McCain’s brand of Populism in any case. Let the man get some experience down there in LA and develop his own star.

All that being said, the smart money is still on Romney. He’s independently wealthy and he’s got pull in states that matter.

The five states with least favorable business climates are Califorinia (lowest ranking), New York, Michigan, New Jersey and Massachusetts.

Oh yeah. Let's let Myth Romney ruin America like he did Massachusetts. [/s]

Romney was rated a "C" overall by Cato. Here are the facts.

As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal.
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]

“In the abstract, it doesn’t really matter who has Veep is as long as McCain doesn’t die in the next 4-8 years.”

He’s 72. A (recent) cancer patient. He could drop in the next 4 to 8 minutes and no one would really be all that surprised.