I hope Romney comes back next time. Look at the choices left now: McCain, Mrs. Clinton or Obama?! Romney can’t be McCain’s VP or anyone else’s. He’s too smart and will upstage the boss.
If he's VP, he'll be in the slot - and there's a real possibility McC won't live through an 8 year, maybe not even a 4 year, term - his age and health (he's been through hell and back, health-wise, with the years of torture and later, cancer - ) It would be good to have Romney in the wings.
He'd provide the balance: Romney/economics, McCain/military - he's already been vetted by the public, the cr*p about his religion has been hashed out - it's an 'old' subject -
So it would seem a good ticket.
To go for someone the public isn't that familiar with already, could throw a monkey wrench into everything.
If we get going now, getting a running start ahead of the squabbling dimRats, we just might pull it out.
It's past the point now of not getting the candidate we wanted - it's time to suck it up and all pull from the same end of the cart