Posted on 08/26/2008 8:10:46 PM PDT by Plutarch
DENVER -- John McCain is planning to rollout his vice-presidential nominee in three battleground states this weekend, with large-scale rallies planned for Ohio, Pennsylvania and Missouri, according to aides and advisers.
The GOP nominee-in-waiting will move to immediately change the campaign conversation from Barack Obama’s football stadium acceptance speech Thursday to the new Republican ticket, to be revealed at a noontime Friday rally in a Dayton, Ohio, basketball arena. McCain and his running mate will then travel by bus to Pennsylvania, where they’ll hold an outdoor event at a minor league baseball stadium in Washington County, just southwest of Pittsburgh. On Sunday, the duo will head to suburban St. Louis for another event to be held at a minor league baseball stadium, this one in O’Fallon, Missouri.
The Missouri rally is being billed to local Republicans as something of a unity rally, since it will feature McCain, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee – the GOP presidential finalists who effectively divided the vote three ways in the Show Me State’s Super Tuesday primary. A McCain aide warned not to read too much into McCain’s planned guests, however.
The campaign’s leadership has imposed strict rules on staffers to not discuss the process and have further guarded the selection by parceling out very little information.
The decision, though, has been all but made, according to one top adviser.
“If he hasn’t, he’s very darn close,” said this source.
Speculation is increasingly centered on former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, although Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman remains an option and remains in the final mix...
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He puts the West over and alot of 527’s with Roomey and might get Michigan.
And, I believe he can help win Ohio, which is similar to Michigan.
Mark Sanford. A REAL Conservative.
He’s cool.
$50 abortions are A-OK with me! -- Mitt Romney
Yeah, he can pander and use class envy just like he did in the Michigan debates. It’ll be like the Dem VP we never had...
I like Mark Sanford. Hell, I love South Carolina.
I’ve been thinking though that I’d like to visit a place where the streets are made of candy and it rains chocolate doughnuts. You know, like the fantasy world where Willard can actually somehow get McCain to win Michigan?
I wouldn’t want to live there or anything, but I do like free doughnuts as much as the next guy.
Mitt is also who I hope for, but more than that, I’m praying it’s NOT Mike Huckabee.
Keep rocking’ CA dudes and dudettes! I’m watching from Ohio.
Oh, no.
Also, the selection of Romney will effectively counter the Joe Biden pick. Mitt can hold his own with Biden and then some.
This McCain candidacy is also unique in that McCain looks to be definitely a one-termer. McCain is almost three years older than Reagan was in 1980. So it is very unlikely he will seek a second term (he will be 76 at that time). So the VP pick should ideally be somebody who can carry the GOP torch into the 2012 and 2016 campaigns. Romney looks to be that guy.
I think a McCain/Romney ticket is a sure winner.
Sure-
But not relevant here.
It’s Mitt baby!
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