**Alfonse D’Amato said Bush should consider putting Secretary of State Colin Powell or Sen. John McCain of Arizona on the GOP ticket.**
I still say Rudy Giuliani.
No. Not Powell, Not McCain, and definitely not Giuliani. I have no idea how liberal Powell really is, and McCain and Giuliani "never take an opportunity to display well brought up behavior and be quiet", to quote Jacques ChiraQ. None of them are equal to the task of being one heartbeat away, as they say.