This position will groom Ridge to be V.P. candidate in 2004 to replace Dick "Bad Ticker" Cheney.
As a former Governor with National Security executive experience, Gov. Ridge will be supremely qualified for V.P.
At some point on Election Night, probably after Gore was projected the winner, Bush regreted selecting Cheney over Ridge. PA's electoral votes would have come in quite handy that night.
Could you think a bigger insult to Roman Catholics than to raise to the Vice Presidency a man who has been forbidden by The Bishop of Erie from speaking in any Church in the Diocese?