I know for a fact that, a month or two before the 2008 Republican National Convention, all elected Delegates and Alternate Delegates were asked whether they would vote to approve McCain’s VP choice if such person was not pro-life. The responses that I saw ranged from “No” to “HELL NO!” to “I will support McCain’s choice, because I am certain that he never would choose someone who isn’t pro-life.” Had McCain tried to get the Convention to nominate Joe Lieberman, not only would the Convention refuse to nominate Lieberman, but, unless McCain quickly corrected course and replaced Lieberman with a pro-lifer, it could have spurred a rebellion even among delegates pledged to McCain and the Convention would look for a different presidential candidate to nominate.
I understand something similar happened in 2004 when McQueeg was secretly plotting to find a way to run as Lurch’s VP. There was no way the Dems would accept him as the running mate (despite all his hard work to undermine the GOP from within). I think McQueeg was counting on utter bedlam by trying to pick the Hamlet of the Potomac as his running mate.
Right. I almost with that had happened just to embarrass that jerk McCain.