Posted on 10/24/2008 10:18:53 AM PDT by mak5
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge said today that John McCain can't become president without carrying Pennsylvania and that the race would be different if McCain had chosen him as his running mate.
"I think the dynamics would be different in Pennsylvania," Ridge said when asked if he should have been chosen to run as vice president over Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. "I think we'd be foolish not to admit it publicly."
Ridge, the campaign's national co-chairman, said McCain "had several good choices and I was one of them."
He nonetheless defended the Palin selection, calling it a "typical, bold McCain-like choice."
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
Yeah, “different” as in “over”....
Based on headline alone ... BAD IDEA.
Ridge is not on my radar for anything.
Yep, it would be real different. McCain would be behind wayyyyy more than he is.
DELUSIONAL has-been. If you want to help Tom run for Senator and beat the empty-headed Bob Casey.
He was my governor and people were mad that he left the governorship. We went democrat because of that. I just don’t think he was all the popular.
Wow. This guy’s a weasel. The race isn’t over, he’s a co-chair of the campaign and he’s telling the press that McCain lost for not picking him as a running mate.
Yeah, it’d be different all right: O 65% / M 35%................
He might only carry Pa.
More and more I think there needs to be a serious purge of the GOP.
I’ve always thought that Ridge was a jerk, but now he gives me irrefutable proof that he is.
Pennsylvania would have been the only state carried.
Ridge may have carried Pennsylvania, but how many other states will Palin carry by energizing the base in ways Ridge couldn’t dream of?
SHORT-SIGHTED SELF-PROMOTING SHAMELESS STUPID.
Yeah, we'd be something like 40 pts. down...
OMG! If we could only buy him for his real worth and sell him for his self-inflated value!
we needed an energy policy..we got none...we need spending to be controlled...we were lambasted....we needed some kind of control on our borders and we got nothing..
will McCain do any of that?...maybe some....
we got Sarah and Sarah is not Tom Ridge nor Mitt nor even Fred or Rudy.....she is non washington, non political class....
she is not you Mr. Ridge...God bless you but give it up already....
at least Rudy and Fred have some class .......
Ridge is a good conservative, got elected in a dem state, but the only mark against him was he supported Specter not Toomey for senate.
Yeah, the race would be different. McCain/Ridge might have done better in PA.
But, without Sarah Palin the base would stay home or vote 3rd party and McCain would lose FL, NC, OH & MO to start. Ridge wasn’t even the 2nd best choice. That would be Romney.
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