Sanford was on McCain’s list.
http://humanevents.com/2008/04/03/mccain-veepstakes-old-school-sanford/
South Carolina’s Gov. Mark Sanford, 47, is more of a maverick than McCain; Sanford faults his state party for being insufficiently conservative. His frugality has had him at daggers drawn with the state Legislature, which Republicans control. His populism is an acquired taste — he should not have lugged those two live pigs into the Legislature to express his disapproval of pork — but he favors expanding school choice, eliminating the state income tax and, at the national level, reforming entitlement.
https://triblive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/columnists/will/s_553929.html
not to mention that Sanford was literally a world-class liar, world class fornicator and adulterer, totally disloyal to the GOP by failing to support his primary opponent whom he lost to thereby giving the House another Dem vote, totally disloyal to President Trump, and basically just another piece of GOPe shit like Flake, Corker, and Ryan ... good riddance to a total piece of garbage ...